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dom993 · Jan 10, 2013

Quote from Bolimomo:

I just re-read the thread in its entirety. Some of my comments were already said, sorry.

As for what to do with the old SSD: I would suggest only un-install the apps and transfer data to save disk space, but keep the bootable Windows on it, and maybe the trading apps. It has already been configured and proven working. You never know. One of these days if you get hit by a computer virus (I got hit 4 times in 2012 - different story, different thread)... that your computer crashes in the middle of the day, your main SSD is hosed and cannot be booted (like booting, blue screen, booting again, blue screen)... it feels good to have a second disk where you can boot Windows, deal with the trading thing until the market closes, get some breathing room before you proceed with recovering your system and data.

I beg to differ

... I suggest doing a weekly backup of your C: partition (again, using Macrium Reflect - this can be done automatically, without having to ever think about it), learn how to restore it to a blank HD (possibly the old SSD) ... this way, there is minimal loss when you have to replace the main SSD.

Anyway, that's how I do it ... of course, I have a backup trading PC which I keep current (and to be clear, my automated trading is on a hosted VM, I have locally a R&D PC and a backup trading PC, the backup trading PC is "old" and just have a RAID1 array, the R&D PC has a single SSD for system and a RAID1 array for everything else - including those backups from the SSD).

Bolimomo · Jan 10, 2013

Quote from dom993:

I beg to differ ... I suggest doing a weekly backup of your C: partition (again, using Macrium Reflect - this can be done automatically, without having to ever think about it), learn how to restore it to a blank HD (possibly the old SSD) ... this way, there is minimal loss when you have to replace the main SSD.

Sure. But recovery takes time. 1 hour. That's how long it took me to use Acronis to recover the image backup from an external USB drive to my SSD C drive, about 110 GB size. Restoring to a blank or not blank is not going to speed it up.

If you have a "spare" bootable Windows drive with some trading app, you can boot it in minutes.

Good for anybody if you have more than 1 PC that you can trade from.