SSD upgrade needed soon. advice?

[njneer75]

So I have a 2 year old OCZ Agility 64Gb SSD installed that only has Win7 and the game on it. Between the windows updates and the game file size, the drive is nearly 75% full now. Not home right now so I cant give specs but I know the technology/performance has improved dramatically in last 2 years. Not worried so much as to which drive to buy as I can figure that out but what I am wondering about is whether to start with fresh install of windows and game or ghost my drive over to new one. Everything runs smooth as silk right now. I experience better than average memory leak issues with the game when swapping toons (only crashes after a dozen or so swaps) and my windows experience rating is 7.4. Any pros/cons ppl can post about ghosting would be appreciated but now that I think about it, is it possible to ghost from an SSD? Ive done it plenty of times before on HDD's but never bothered to check if its possible on SSD's.

[Garix]

Most SSDs come with a disk to allow you to ghost from one drive to the other so that shouldn't be an issue.

I prefer to do a fresh install. Helps to get rid of all the junk that's cropped up over a couple of years from various program updates. But it's a personal call. Depends if you want to spend time downloading a plethora of Windows Updates.

Good time to be buying a SSD. Prices dropped a few weeks ago. Just installed Samsung 830 256Gb in both the wife's and my laptops. £130 a piece.

[Tiamas]

Most SSDs come with a disk to allow you to ghost from one drive to the other so that shouldn't be an issue.

I prefer to do a fresh install. Helps to get rid of all the junk that's cropped up over a couple of years from various program updates. But it's a personal call. Depends if you want to spend time downloading a plethora of Windows Updates.

Good time to be buying a SSD. Prices dropped a few weeks ago. Just installed Samsung 830 256Gb in both the wife's and my laptops. £130 a piece.

Pretty much this. Bought the 128 GB version 3 weeks ago and I am absolutely happy with it.

[cdr]

Early on (and I mean really early, like 1st generation in 2008) ghosting software could have trouble with the differing page boundaries of SSDs, mainly when going from a HDD to a SSD.

Any modern ghosting software will be able to copy a SSD fine.

You may want to reinstall anyways just to have a fresh install of Windows, if your Windows install is very old.

I would recommend a ~256GB drive, a 256GB Crucial M4 is under $200 - well worth it for the breathing room. Do make sure you get a drive with a good controller, like a Crucial/Intel/Samsung.