Hi
Regarding back ups I am rather paranoid as in the past having lost valuable data on a couple of occasions it makes me very carful of backing up.
I do the following, my desktop pc (don't own a laptop) is backed up to my server in real time so any changes on my pc are immediately backed up to the server, then overnight the server backs up to a NAS Drive.
I migrated my win7 to a SSD and it works fine, if you are doing a fresh install of Win7 then pretty much everything is taken care of, if you google win7 and SSD there a few tweaks that can be made to win7.
I use my SSD for Win7 and program files and then I have mapped My Docs to a Non SSD 500gb data drive.
After having installed the SSD my win7 was noticeably faster on boot up and in use, but not as fast as I was expecting
I might be wrong, but don't they advise 'not' installing Windows on an SSD because of the read right issues :?
SDD Drives have a limited write life.
Before windows 7, windows was not designed to work on SDD's and XP and Vista did a shed load of read write caching to the hard drive that the user never even noticed, as if that was not bad enough XP and Vista did not position the start sector on a SSD drive in the correct place, an SDD start sector is in a different place to normal spinning drives, and this is a problem because if the start sector on a SSD drive is set as if it were a spinning hard drive, it causes the SSD to move any data that is written to it.
In effect that means that every time data is written to the SDD it's like writing the same data twice, and as SSD have a limited write life the combination of double writing and the read write caching, cause the SSD's to have a shortened life.
The reason I know all this is because I could not face reinstalling Windows 7 and all my program files, so I did loads of research on what I needed to do to Migrate windows 7 to a SSD, and found out the issues I needed to address