SSD Upgrade Questions

[Cake]

Hey guys.

 

DCS 1.5.8.x and DCS 2.2.x installed Both clean installs with NO mods.

 

Windows 10 - Samsung 830 512Gb SATA - ASUS Z170 Premium i7-6700K

 

Upgrading to 960EVO 1Tb m.2 - This will run both the OS and DCS.

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I've also recently switched from a 390X to 1080ti without deactivating.

 

Questions:

 

1. I'm not sure yet if I will clone or do a fresh install of Windows 10. Any thoughts?

 

 

2. Either way, I'm assuming that I should deactivate all of my modules because of the multiple hardware changes. To deactivate, is there an order I should follow? Do I deactivate on version 2.2 or 1.5.8 first? Or do I just deactivate on one of the versions? If I clone, is there any reason I should do a clean install of DCS?

 

3. Any recommendations on free/inexpensive clone software?

 

4. Sort of unrelated, but is anyone seeing big gains going from 16Gb to 32Gb? Wondering if I should do that at the same time?

 

Thanks.

[Johnny_Rico]

1. Clone it unless you are having issues with that install

 

2. Deactivate first, u can change a couple of things before trigger re-activation

 

3. I have used acronis for 10+ years now and it is great (some SSD manufacturers have free cloning software?)

 

4. I went from 16 to 32 on my last upgrade BUT it was a totally new build went from DDR3 1600Mhz to DDR4 3866Mhz ( I do some dev with vm's so wanted tons of RAM, your mileage may vary

[BitMaster]

Hey Cake,

 

yes, deactivate them, I myself just lost one complete activation across all modules yesterday night only by Bios settings and RAM overclocking, believe it or not. You better play safe.

 

YOu can easily clone your drive, no need to reinstall if you have no other reasons to do so.

The included ( or better downloaded ) Magician software from Samsung does a pretty good job.

 

Install the newest 2.3 NVMe driver from Samsung right after boot and check for Firmware Updates soon as they had an issue and pulled the last version off the servers, yours is safe if untouched and the bad firmware is as said not available anymore.

You may want to google that issue to be aware, again, the drive itself is safe if you run the 2B7Q.. version firmware and not the 3xxxx

[BitMaster]

Take 32GB if you can :thumbup:

[hansangb]

You do get one activation per month, so even if you run completely out of activation, you can still install it (albeit once per month). But you should deactivate it since it only takes seconds to do.

[cichlidfan]

You do get one activation per month, so even if you run completely out of activation, you can still install it (albeit once per month). But you should deactivate it since it only takes seconds to do.

 

Not quite correct. After you use all of your activations, a 30 day clock starts. When the clock hits zero, you get a single activation. That activation is all you will get until you use it. Once you use it, the 30 day clock starts again after which you will receive another activation.

 

It is also worth noting that deactivations do not replenish so using them only when you need to is wise.

Edited December 21, 2017 by cichlidfan

[Cake]

Thanks everyone.

 

Do I need to deactivate once each for my two installs? 1.5 and 2.2?

[BitMaster]

No, just in one. You can do it in the Module Manager

[Cake]

No, just in one. You can do it in the Module Manager

 

Roger.

[RePhil]

YES be careful of deactivating I for one did not know there was a limit and only have one left and I did not know I did not need to deactivate when just trying to do a clean install on same machine when things did not work properly

[Cake]

Upgrade went well, thanks all.

 

Once thing I noticed was that most of my modules had 8 or 9 activations left.

 

For some reason the Viggen only had four. That was a recent purchase and I'd only activated it once, then and deactivated it today, so how can there be only four left?