Thursday, March 21, 2013

Speed up SolidWorks loading and saving

When SolidWorks 2013 was released I noticed that it took longer for the application to load.
Read and write speed of my Dell M6500 left room for improvement as well.
Time to upgrade my 7200RPM Hard drive to a Intel SSD drive. Since I only store current projects on my local drive I did not need a large drive 240 GB was enough for me.
Using the Apricorn SATA Wire Notebook HDD upgrade kit made it an easy task.
Here are the steps required:

  1. Transfer the Solidworks license (to be safe as the hardware of your computer changes)
  2. Plug in the Apricorn SATA Wire and new SSD
  3. Select your current drive as the source and the SSD as the destination.
  4. Let the software transfer the data
  5. Remove the original drive
  6. Install the new SSD
  7. Start Windows
  8. Activate SolidWorks
  9. Enjoy faster boot up read and write speed and reduced power consumption.
Get the parts here: Note SATA is backward compatible

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