Solid State Drive?

[Amiga Forever]

I just been watching the Youtube of Solid State Drive Vs Hard Drive....

WOW

I did love to get Solid State Drive for my laptop Acer 6935 but I dont know if compatable to it


One thing for sure....they are very expensive to buy them! :wooha:

 

[Skellionz]

They are at the moment, but with all things they will come down in price fast at some point. I have also considered one but cant justify the price just for speed at the moment

 

[ShambleS1980]

they are still limited by your ata controller. they do however make for a very quiet system.
you would need a SATA 6gbp's compatible motherboard to really be able to justify one IMO.
and even then you may be tempted to go for the SATA equivalent instead.

Even when they ran on the Pata functions i believed they were a good idea for your OS and page file. But back then the limits of the ata 133 made them less convincing.

 

[Harrison]

2x SATA3 SSD in RAID 0 configuration is currently the fastest possible speed.

The only real advantage for single drive systems is to make the drive silent, and also reduce heat.

Do remember though that whilst read speed is faster, write speed is generally much slower than traditional HDDs.

 

[moijk]

I just been watching the Youtube of Solid State Drive Vs Hard Drive....

WOW

I did love to get Solid State Drive for my laptop Acer 6935 but I dont know if compatable to it

My Macbook Pro boots as fast as my Amiga thanks to my SSD drive in it. (I also replaced the dvd rom with a HDD for storage space)

 

[Buzzfuzz]

I have an Intel 160GB Postville in my system and it's fast enough, the price tag is a bit steep for sure.

But if I do buy a new system next year, I'm sure it will have a raid 0 setup.

 

[drbrain]

An SSD is the best upgrade you can give a computer....
Once you go SSD you'll never want to go back.

And especially a laptop will gain speed as regualar 2.5" harddrives are S-L-O-W !!

I'll choose a 60GB SSD over a 500GB+ HDD any day in the week... it's worth every penny it costs.

 

[Amiga Forever]

I want to buy SSD HD for My Acer 6935 Laptop but do you know where I can buy a 100% Trust website?

 

[johnim]

have a look here
http://www.ebuyer.com/search?sort=pricelow&store=33&cat=385&limit=10&page=1
i have had no problems with ebuyer for many years

 

[Skellionz]

I would only ever want one for the system drive, just not practical for storage currently and i do have 6gbps sata on my mobo

 

[Amiga Forever]

Thanks johnim

This is interesting as I might get either of those

http://www.ebuyer.com/246993-kingst...c-write-145mb-sec-desktop-bundle-sv100s2d-64g

or

http://www.ebuyer.com/247250-kingst...250mb-sec-write-145mb-sec-bundle-sv100s2n-64g

 

[johnim]

hi the second 1 is for laptops my mate had the 128gb version

remember to put the origional in the case and your new 1 in the laptop to clone it

 

[Harrison]

For those of you using SSD drives for your boot drives, are you installing all your programs on a separate HDD? And what about Virtual Memory?

For me a 64-128GB SSD would be too small, and larger ones are just too expensive at the moment. Especially as you can find 2TB HDDs for under £50 these days.

 

[ShambleS1980]

2TB HDDs for under £50 these days.

Where??!?!

 

[Amiga Forever]

you know this one...

http://www.ebuyer.com/247250-kingsto...e-sv100s2n-64g

does it mean that I can put Black leads from USB port to the SSD Hard?


I thought it would be cool if I can put SSD HD inside my Acer Laptop because I am fed up of slow speed of 5400rm

 

[Harrison]

2TB HDDs for under £50 these days.

Where??!?!

Not got time to search, but scan has the F4 2TB for £52. http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2tb-...t-f4eg-sata-3gb-s-5400rpm-32mb-cache-89ms-ncq

(I can claim VAT back so for me that would be £43 ).

 

[ShambleS1980]

2TB HDDs for under £50 these days.

Where??!?!

Not got time to search, but scan has the F4 2TB for £52. http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2tb-...t-f4eg-sata-3gb-s-5400rpm-32mb-cache-89ms-ncq

(I can claim VAT back so for me that would be £43 ).

Grrr thats only £3 more than i paid for my 1tb stupid greasyworld.
having said that They had misslabled the drive as a 500gb and even now with the things on sale they are still £19 more than i paid...
But Grrr.
They should have a song that goes "want to get riped off? where do you go.. Where in the world PC world"

 

[johnim]

hi the ssd goes in ur laptop and the hardrive from laptop goes in caddy
Then plug in the caddy into usb.
Then boot from cd/dvd 2 clone the system then the laptop runs off ssd.
Then you can use hardrive as external drive

 

[Skellionz]

I don't see why 128 gb is too small for s system drive should be ample room even after vm and basic progs

Afaik even win 7 64 bit only needs around 20gb

 

[Harrison]

Depends what you are using it for. If you are only a gamer and general user then yes, it would be fine.

However over time Win 7 does store every version of every updated system file and this can start to eat into HDD space. They have fixed this in Win 7 to some extent, but when i was running Vista 64 bit, after a year it was taking up over 100GB all by itself.

Regardless of that though, for me it is not enough because of the software I need installed. I do install all games and a lot of software onto separate drives, but certain software like Adobe and Microsoft prefer to be installed on the system drive. And Adobe Master Collection can use over 15GB up before even starting.