Hard Drive Dilema

[Novabeam]

I recently built a PC and I have an old 80gb ssd with windows 7 ultimate installed and it crashes a lot. I am planning to upgrade to windows 10, but I am unsure to use my new 1tb hdd or use my old 80gb ssd.

PS first time using this site, first PC build

 

[PP Mguire]

So, what is it exactly that you want to do? What SSD is it and what's the rest of your build?

 

[Novabeam]

So, what is it exactly that you want to do? What SSD is it and what's the rest of your build?

CPU: i-5 4690K 3.5Ghz
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC 4GB
Memory: 12GB RAM
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming-3
Storage: 80gb ssd OCZ-VERTEX
500gb hdd Samsung HM501ll
1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue


I am fixing windows right now, but windows 7 updates are failing and windows 10 wont install on my ssd. So I was wondering if I should upgrade to windows 10 on the 1tb hard drive. Plus, the ssd fails to boot some times.

 

[PP Mguire]

Is it a first gen Vertex?

 

[Novabeam]

Is it a first gen Vertex?

Not sure, but the dilema here is that I am running out of space for program files on the 80gb ssd. So I am wondering if i should install windows 10 on my 1tb hdd and just format my ssd. Or if there is any other solution that I dont know of.

 

[PP Mguire]

You can do a clean install then use some utilies to see if you can save the SSD. More than likely overprovision has been used a lot and TRIM wasn't working causing issue. By clean install I mean on the 1TB and if need be can clone to the SSD if all goes well.