Updating old SSD to new SSD

[BurtononTrent]

I have a 120GB INTEL SSD for C; drive.
I have a 1 TB SATA HDD used for Scenery
I have a SAMSUNG 500GB SSD to install yet ideally for capturing fraps uncompressed video
There is only one tray in the Desktop used for the 120GB SSD
I want to keep the 120GB SSD
I want to also fit the 500GB SSD
I want to also keep the SATA 1TB HDD

There are several spare leads/plugs in the desktop unused

I have Intel migration software mini CD included with the desktop

Do I need to download Samsung migration software to clone migrate transfer all of C; drive to the 500GB SSD

Do I instead use the Intel migration CD instead

Is it worth using a USB to migrate from Intel to Samsung SSD

At present I am frapping video onto the 120GB SSD that has little space left on it
What would be best; 120GB SSD for Windows and 500 GB for Video or visa versa I understand that Frapps is not recommended to be saved on the C drive and to use an external hard drive via
USB creates poor picture quality.

Would appreciate any constructive comments

 

[Tony1044]

Could you not just fit the new SSD and then use it for frapping the video to? (Whatever that is lol)

Just physically install it, go into disk management and create a partition and assign a drive letter then format it.

You have a brand new, 500GB partition on your SSD.

Edit: I read the only one tray in the Desktop as only one used...now assuming I got that wrong and you meant there is only space for one, I would personally do the following:

Connect the new 500GB SSD via USB

Make a bootable DVD or USB of your imaging software (personally I like Miray HD Clone).

Boot to the imaging DVD/USB stick and image the old SSD to the new SSD

Swap the old and new ones and run the old SSD as an external USB.

 

[Oussebon]

What kind of graphics card do you have? If it's Nvidia you could just use Shadowplay which has a lower performance impact than Fraps. I have it recording constantly, and have no problems saving footage onto my C: Drive which is an SSD. I then edit it down and move it across to an HDD for storage.

 

[BurtononTrent]

What kind of graphics card do you have? If it's Nvidia you could just use Shadowplay which has a lower performance impact than Fraps. I have it recording constantly, and have no problems saving footage onto my C: Drive which is an SSD. I then edit it down and move it across to an HDD for storage.

Nvidia 680, haven't heard of shadowplay will investigate. What I do at present is to video with Fraps to C drive an SSD then compress and save to external 1tb HD, if I save video to this drive first, image quality suffers and video does not run smoothly.

Thanks for your advice

 

[Oussebon]

Yeah, trying to save a video of gameplay directly to an external HDD is asking for trouble. Saving to the SSD and then editing and moving the file over to a storage drive is the way I do it as well.

Shadowplay should run fine on a GTX 680, and will have a lower performance impact than FRAPS.
http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/1561-shadowplay-vs-fraps-vs-gvr-recording-benchmark

It's part of Geforce Experience, which is free from Nvidia. I think "Shadowplay" has recently been renamed or incorporated into Nvidia Share, but it's basically the same thing. You can choose to manually start and stop a recording, and it can also 'shadow' your gameplay so that at any time you can hit a button and save the last 5-20 minutes of whatever was on your screen.
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/geforce-experience-shadowplay-is-now-share
http://www.geforce.co.uk/geforce-experience/share

It's free so you might as well try it out: http://www.geforce.co.uk/geforce-experience/download