Solid State Harddrives Question

[Jooooles]

Im thinking of updating my 2 lappys with solid state harddrives, but what benifits will I see apart from faster caching and cross over of files.

For the price of them have they got a longer life expectancy, Im pretty sick of getting bad sectors on my normal ones and having to defragment them every other week.

Has anybody made the upgrade, and can you see the difference also will my computers support the sata III version or will I have to stick to the sata II, I cant find any info on the laptops manufactures web site, will I have to open them up to see what type of board is in.

There both note books a HP G6-1189sa and a Dell 1545

Cheers for any input.

 

[little_pob]

SATA is always backwards and forwards compatible, but run at the slowest speed. i.e. a SATA 6Gb/s drive on a SATA 3Gb/s controller will only run at 3Gb/s maximum. Similarly a SATA 3Gb/s drive on a SATA 6Gb/s controller will still only run at 3Gb/s.

I've actually installed an SSD in my Dell Studio laptop.
Pros:
Quicker boot times.
Better battery life.

Cons:
Limited storage space (I've a second mechanical drive installed, but not everyone has this option).

 

[dar1437]

Im thinking of updating my 2 lappys with solid state harddrives, but what benifits will I see apart from faster caching and cross over of files.

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No noise from them.

 

[Jooooles]

SATA is always backwards and forwards compatible, but run at the slowest speed. i.e. a SATA 6Gb/s drive on a SATA 3Gb/s controller will only run at 3Gb/s maximum. Similarly a SATA 3Gb/s drive on a SATA 6Gb/s controller will still only run at 3Gb/s.

I've actually installed an SSD in my Dell Studio laptop.
Pros:
Quicker boot times.
Better battery life.

Cons:
Limited storage space (I've a second mechanical drive installed, but not everyone has this option).

I would be loosing a 750GB hard-drive and dropping to a 120GB but I have 4TB of external drives so Im not really botherd.

Think I will have a look around and look for some bargains )

 

[little_pob]

SSD drives have finally broken through the £1 per GB barrier that was putting a lot of people off. Admittedly most of them are 3Gb/s models, but you'll occasionally find 6Gb/s ones at that price point.

Probably the best value for 120GB money drive at the moment: OCZ 120GB Vertex Plus SSD - 2.5" SATA-II - Read.. | Ebuyer.com Even if you take into account the that the Sandforce controller withholds 13% of capacity as spare area for wear levelling with current firmwares, you'll still be getting 1.044GB per pound.

 

[Exos]

Is this the same 750GB drive you just replaced? lol

 

[Mark_The_Yid]

6gb/s SSD 120gb drive for £1 per gb

OCZ Technology 120GB Agility 3 SSD Series SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-120G) - dabs.com

 

[BIG-HOL]

You will see a good increase in speed on apps and general use mate, everything just runs quicker, fast boot ups, transfer speeds, made a big difference to the 2 laptops i had put them in, only bogey is there only really any good for keeping the OS on, i had the crucial 64gb m3 models and they were spot on, if ya get 1 make sure you set the drive in bios to AHCI mode!


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[little_pob]

6gb/s SSD 120gb drive for £1 per gb

OCZ Technology 120GB Agility 3 SSD Series SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-120G) - dabs.com

You loose 13% on the Sandforce controllers. So it's a £1 per GB on the quoted capacity, but it'll format at around 110GB. Still the better write speed may be worth the extra £20, even on a SATA 3Gb/s laptop.

 

[hatab]

have a read here

SSD life - tool for solid state drives health and endurance monitoring

 

[Exos]

Only 37% but health is good and is ok until 2021??: OCZ Vertex

OCZ Agility 3

 

[Jooooles]

Is this the same 750GB drive you just replaced? lol

Aye it is lol, but im not using the space cos when I download a game/movie I just put it straight on a external drive/media player, and anyway It doesnt seem to be running right, even though its passed a disk check and its been defraged.

Im just gonna fill it with porn and put in me man safe blah blah .