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All my data is held on other drives than this SSD and I have 5 Data HDs in this machine alone.
With a "toaster" I cloned this SSD with the win7 OS and my programs onto another SDD so if this drive dies, I slap in the cloned drive and than have to do a million updates to windows and all my software, annoying and extremely time consuming (since I can not get high speed at this house).
I bought SSD's since they were supposed to not fail like regular HD's, this would be the 2nd one that failed if it in fact does.
I learned long ago that once you start having issues with a HD (or an SD card), they can fail in a day, an hour or a year and I can't take the chance.
When I am back in FL I am going to instal my A+B+C+D switch to choose which of the SSD's I boot from and update the clone drive when I am not working. This way it is ready in case the OS drive fails.
As soon as Windows 10 is out and stable (2nd service pack probably) I will then load a brand new SDD drive with the new OS and it will become drive A on the A+B+C+D switch. This way I can migrate my programs onto the new OS slowly and work out the quirks. If one of my 2 SSD's dies before Win 10 is out and stable, I am going to get another SSD and clone the remaining working SSD drive.
Always having 2 OS drives has saved my ass countless times.
**************Can not thank everyone enough for the help and suggestions. That is what makes this place a community which we sometimes forget.
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