Solid State Hard Drive

[BobHope]

Hi All,

since my other halfs laptops 320gb hard drive failed i installed a spare 80gb sata drive and she has not noticed the differance 😀 , its only used for facebook and emails so i was thinking of buying a S/S hard drive of about 120gb, question is are they reliable and what is the speed differance after boot up.

Bob.

[admin]

Re: Solid State Hard Drive

Bob

If your after a 320 gb data I’ve got a brand new one sitting in a drawer doing nothing but gathering dust.

Bryan

[BobHope]

Re: Solid State Hard Drive

Thanks for the offer Bryan but at the moment the GB of data are not required its the speed of the SSD im looking at.

Hope you you are keeping well.

Bob.

[Madmac]

Re: Solid State Hard Drive

Been thinking about trying an SSD in my laptop too, waiting for the operating system to load gets on my thruppenny bits.

They apparently work better with 7 than Vista, but then Vista is a bag of poop :rolls:
Important to disable any defrag, as I understand this shortens an SSD’s life since its not needed with solid state.

Would be interested in anyones experiences with these gizmos too 😉

Eddie.

[kwatt]

Re: Solid State Hard Drive

I’ve been using SSDs for a while.

A friend has been using for much longer in various consumer electronics devices. I really must switch out the SATAs for SSDs in one of the media servers.

Basically, it’s the future but we’re a ways off them being “mainstream” as such.

I use one in my iMac and on a MBA.

On the Mac it boots from SSD with storage provided by a SATA and NAS drives for larger files or archived stuff and it’s great, much faster boot times.

On the MBA it’s perfect for the application I want, boots fast and won’t break if it gets tossed about a bit as well as running cooler.

They are brilliant (IMO) if you don’t need mass storage as such but want speed and reduced running temperatures as well as reliability.

HTH

K.

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