Continued fighting the netbook, as a friend suggested I might do better selling it with the original hard disk in it, and selling the SSD separately (after all, no-one in their right mind would install a £180 SSD in a £250 netbook, would they? OK, I did, and it worked well). Trying to get the netbook working from the recovery disc, which doesn't have any of the required drivers on it, and Samsung's website doesn't have all of them either. I've never had a PC which didn't just pick up all the required drivers when installing Windows, but I tried installing a normal Windows 7 Home premium, which is what it was running anyway, but nothing worked, VGA only screen, no ethernet or wifi or bluetooth. Using the recovery disc after that, brings it back down to starter edition, but still no drivers (This is the recovery disc supplied with the netbook!) A trawl of Samsung's website driver page for this specific machine reveals lots of wifi drivers, but none of them work. I now have several screen resolutions open to me, but none are the correct aspect ratio, and I have ethernet and bluetooth, but no wifi. I think the only option open to me now is to create an image onto the original hard disk from the SSD (which was itself created using the Samsung SSD data migration software... otherwise, I've bricked it. I don't want to keep taking the netbook apart, as its all a bit fragile.
Trying to improve the OCZ revodrive on this desktop PC hasn't brought any great revelations, either. Repair reinstallation and update done on the driver, with no effect. Bootup message states its running OK at PCI-E x4, at 5.0 Gbps, but it just seems lacklustre, f'rinstance, copying files to a USB3 stick usually runs at about 30MB per sec, and copying them from that stick onto the new SSD equipped laptop runs at about 100MB per sec. I'd hoped for snappy loading of my Photoshop library, but no, it takes ages. Its an Asus Z87A mobo with 16Gb of RAM and an i7 4770K processor.