I knew a SSD was going to be one of the first things I get along with upgrading the Ram. And based on previous experience with this SSD I knew it was the one I wanted. At the time Amazon had it for about $143 so I took it to the customer service desk and they price matched it. Came home and installed it. Then I used an Acronis clone DVD I made to do the cloning from the 1tb HDD to the new 480gb SSD. It did it with no issues at all, and even changed the sizes of all 5 of the partitions accordingly. Some of these new laptops come with a C and D partition. One is the regular C, the D is "Data". Well I prefer it the old way and wanted to combine these into one larger C Drive. This was a bit tricky. Windows can do this as long as the 2 partitions are side by side with no other partition between them. But on this one it had a hidden 499mb recovery partition between C and D. So the built in Windows utility couldnt do the standard "extend volume" using disk management. So I tried to use Easeus Partition Master. Well when I used this it worked to combine C and D, but it wiped out my recovery partition with no warning. I wanted to keep the recovery so I had to try something else. So I did the entire clone process again to get recovery back. And then I tried Aomei Partition Assistant. This worked perfect. It was able to combine C and D into one larger C partition, and kept the recovery partition just in case I need it some day. Just wanted to add this for anyone trying to figure out how to do the same thing.