I am feeling much better about this drive after doing some more reading so as long as I have got the latest firmware I should be A-OK. I am still bummed about losing 8GB, but it is going to be a much faster SSD so I can live with it.Reason I was mostly worried about the drive was I like to do my upgrades in cycles (kinda like Intel's tick-tock) and this one was a tock (new motherboard, and processor).