Probably last to the party here,
but I just upgraded my main computer (Windows 7 peer to peer, Dell Inspiron circa 2013, Amazing Charts 10.0) from a 500 GB hard drive to a 1 TB Western Digital SSD. Was running out of space on the 500G drive.
Took about 3 hours. Plugged the SSD into bay 2 using a SATA cable (not included with new drive but had a few laying around). Then ran the free Acronis True Image software from the Western Digital site to clone the original drive to the new drive. Then I disconnected the old drive ( I could have told the BIOS to boot from the new drive , I guess, but I didn't want any confusion down the line).
Although I had a 2.5" to 3.5" drive tray converter, things didn't quite line up right as far as the power cables, so had to do some finagling. Also the Acronis didn't recognize the new drive as western digital, even though it was , so Acronis refused to run. So I simply plugged in a western digital extenal drive drive via USB and Acronis was happy (one one of the drives connected to system has to be recognized as Western Digital, even if it is not used in the cloning process.
Speed increase is nice. Windows now boots in a minute rather than like 10.
