I'm looking at buying my first SSD, or more accurately demanding it from Santa. I'm a total n00b with these though so just wondering if there's anything flawed in my logic below in terms of buying and installation considerations. My current set up is;
Asus P5K Premium PCI-E, SATA 2, ATX Motherboard
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB SATA-II 32MB Cache
T'other stuff FWiW
4GB Patriot DDR2 RAM, E8400 CPU, Win7
Radeon 5850
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
Patriot 2GB DDR2 800Mhz Extreme Performance Memory x2
Win 7
I know I'll only get 3gb SATA throughput but that's OK, Tom's Hardware reckons the gains in load speed are still significant. Also I intend to put the OS and Steam on it and little else, load speeds just don't matter to me anywhere else. Apparently I have to set the drive mode to AHCI on the BIOs, fine no problem.
For £160 the
256GB Samsung 840 seems to be the one for me, but I've not fitted one before. I need to get a holder/adaptor for my case (Antec P182) to can hold the drive. Amazon's got a bunch
SSD holders, but I don't know which one will fit. Any suggestions?
Anything else I need to think about that I've missed so far? [edit] ooo, just thought need to check available power connections.
Not looking forward to transferring Steam and the OS, I must have 70 games installed

Might have to do a little house cleaning. One thing I've not worked out is how to move Win 7 from the current HDD without totally buggering everything like MS Office etc.