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Like anything, buy quality. Just installed the Samsung 840 Pro SSD. This entire process of converting my PC to SSD took about 10 minutes of physical work and 20 minutes of an automated “wizard” moving the OS to the SSD. After the install, everything works perfectly. Then I ran a benchmark on the SSD, the 10,000rpm HD, a Drobo raid array, and a Synology Diskstation to benchmark the differences. There is no going back. The SSD is almost 20x faster than the 10,000rpm HD – which is about the fastest mechanical drive available…the difference is more than noticeable. This is the second development machine I’ve upgraded. The other one has been running for several years and never been turned off – or had a boot issue.
Buy quality.

I’ve been getting a few phone calls lately, from “tech companies” (yesterday they said they were Microsoft themselves) telling me my computer has been hacked and they want to do something or other. I just hung up on the guy who sounded like he was from India. The night before I did the full scan with the Microsoft Security that Woody recommended. It was completely clean. The computer acts pretty much the same as it usually does. Anyone else get any of this?
marshallman

You are missing out on a great experience. When I got MY call from Microsoft I pretended to be computer illiterate. I was SO grateful that they could help me find the virus. However, whatever they asked me to do I got wrong…I clicked in the wrong places, I asked them to repeat themselves. “Click on the start button” the person on the phone asked. I told him I was pushing all the buttons on the computer, isn’t that the monitor? Oh about 30 minutes later when he had me browsing through files on the pc and he pointed out a system file and said “thats a virus, now let me connect to your computer and clean it”.
HAHAHAHAHA, I told him OHHHHHHHHHH no! You will get it too, thats how viruses work, I read that! I kept yelling no, no, it’s too dangerous. Then I said I will have to throw the computer out, this is too scary and hung up.

So much better than watching a tv show. 🙂