New Stock W8 PC w/ HDD: Moving to SSD Questions

[ultralame]

Hi all. I am purchasing a new ASUS All-in-one that comes with an HDD; I want to move to an SSD. I have lots of W7 install experience, but have only used W8 on a touchscreen laptop, so I am not sure how to go about this.

There's a lot of information on HOW to do everything (Which is great), but I need some WHY info first, and it's eluding me.

• My laptop has an embedded 32GB SSD used for fast start-up. But the new PC doesn't. Since I am moving to an SSD, should I create a partition for this, so that start-up is fast? Or is this partition already part of W8, and the SSD on the other machine just make it fast to load (I.E, I only need to clone the drive to the SSD).
• Ignoring the possibility of Crapware and customization, is there any benefit to installing from scratch on the SSD rather than cloning?

Thanks!

 

[theog]

Have read of this thread:
http://www.eightforums.com/installa...tall-hp-32gb-mssd-hdd-acceleration-cache.html

 

[ultralame]

DAMMIT. My search skills suck. Thank you.

 

[znod]

• Ignoring the possibility of Crapware and customization, is there any benefit to installing from scratch on the SSD rather than cloning?

Thanks!

Getting out from under the thumbs of both your OEM and MS as far as possible is a good reason for some.