[mdlug] Adding SSD to existing system

[Ingles, Raymond]

Saved up birthday and Christmas money, and picked up a 256MB SSD drive. I'm planning to add it to my desktop, and move the operating systems onto it. I have both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04 on it, spread over a few partitions on three separate 1TB drives. (I'm afraid I'm a little old-school and haven't gotten with the volume-management bandwagon yet.)

My Linux root partition (which includes /usr) is only using about 10.5 GB. I think I can get my Windows OS partition down to 150MB or so. So I should be able to make a 50GB partition for Linux, give the rest to Windows, and have a machine that boots up substantially faster.

Has anyone done things like this before? Any tips or warnings I should be aware of?