Apocaliptus Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Hello everyone, I just received and installed my first SSD and have some questions for the experts. I noticed that detected total space is not 128GB but 119GB, is this normal for a SSD? I though this only happened with HDD. Well, I want to install the OS into the SSD, I want to know what is the best method: 1. Migrate OS from HDD to SSD. 2. Complete OS reinstall into the SSD. I'm more about a complete reinstall of Win8.1 but I want to know if migration with an image of the old HDD partition is viable and won't have performance issues? What would you recommend? Thanks for your time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apocaliptus Posted April 28, 2014 Author Share Posted April 28, 2014 Ok. I just made a complete reinstall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 A complete reinstall is the best option. After installing your programs and updates, you can image the SSD and save it on another drive for later use. The total space detected is normal as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khobbs_uk Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 make sure your bios is AHCI mode, and yes you do lose some space on ssd's as well as hardrives due to the 1024 bytes per megabyte. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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