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The first thing I noticed was the quiet. I hadn't realized how much noise the old Seagate hard drive made. I'd attributed a lot of that noise to the fans. I hope this ssd lasts longer than four years! It's nice how fast the ssd boots.

Backing up my machines is easy because I use Linux and I'm not a gamer. I don't have to muck about with proprietary software whenever I build a new machine or upgrade an old one. I keep multiple backups of my home directory, a couple hundred gigabytes, mostly family photographs and old home movies. I maintain the backups using grsync.

Linux systems installed on a USB stick are surprisingly transportable, and will boot all my amd64 machines to my preferred MATE desktop.

My laptop can be booted to Windows 10 but I don't use any Microsoft products unless someone is paying me. In Windows I mostly use Portable Apps. Those are easily transportable from one computer to another. Most will run on Linux as well, using Wine.

I'm possibly too obsessive about backups. I have files going back to the later 'seventies and emulators, as necessary, for most of the machines I've used since. I can still write Atari 800 programs and play Atari games like it's 1982. (Yeah, that's proprietary Atari software, but I still have all my Atari hardware, cartridges, and disks in a box in my garage.)

Good luck with your new SSD!