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Just been looking at some SATA SSD’s
Does anyone know if these can be used as straight replacements for the NC10 HDD?http://www.advancetec.co.uk/acatalog/SSD_Solid_State_Drives.html
i would presume they would be fine as a sata device is a sata device so to speak, i guess it just depends on how its secured in compared to the hard drive
i’ve been kinda waiting for this thread to happen.
yes, those would work fine. however, those are examples of really shitty SSDs.
there are only really two SSDs that offer any actual significant all round advantage over traditional laptop drives right now.
while most of the SSDs around will offer a good read speed and an excellent latency, they have cripplingly slow write times and because their average power consumption is so high you don;t see any real benefit in using one.the two exceptions right now are these…
this one will give you 20% more useable battery time
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-011-OC&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910&name=OCZ%20Solid%20Series%20120GB%202.5%22%20SATA-II%20Solid%20State%20Hard%20Drive%20(OCZSSD2-1SLD120G)this one will perform about twice as fast as the likes of the spinpoint f1 or velociraptor drives but use the same ammount of power as a standard LT HDD.
this is according to testing results i’ve seen in various reviews. SSDs seem to be a pretty iffy thing to be getting involved in at such and early (and costly) stage. it seems really easy to spend a ton of money and buy a lemon right now.
Runcore are now producing fast SSD’s, this model has: Read/Write Speed: 90/130 MB/sec
Some test results over at JKK Mobile
Any Sata SSD in a standard 2.5″ form factor should be fine although the market still has a long way to go before we have well matured products at a good price. I’m planning on installing one in the future though as I had Office 2007 products such as Excel and Word opening up on an Asus 701 in under 2 seconds – decent read speed but very slow write speed. Once the write speeds are up to scratch and power management is in a good place at prices approaching normal hard drive prices then I’ll be all over them.
i installed a 64Gb samsung SLC SSD and it works great, the fit was perfect in the existing drive tray/mount.
look at those prices. The payoffs arn’t worth the cash, you’re paying nearly the price of a new NC10 for a HDD that might save a bit of battery and has less space, I admit the speed is really alluring but not so much that I cant afford to lose a few extra seconds of my life to wait for applications to launch.
the write speed of most of these drives effectively cripples them though and you end up only slightly better off than your conventional counterpart.
give it a year then buy an ssd.SSD is just really nice, but the technology isnt stable right now. Wait a year, and the ssds are cheaper and most inportant, more stable.
For example. OCZ ssd’s are bang for bucks, but they are not working right in windows, they are hicking up windows. Thats because windows isnt optimalized for SSD’s.
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SSD is just really nice, but the technology isnt stable right now. Wait a year, and the ssds are cheaper and most inportant, more stable.For example. OCZ ssd’s are bang for bucks, but they are not working right in windows, they are hicking up windows. Thats because windows isnt optimalized for SSD’s.
[/quote1228872357]it’s nothing to do with windows man, it’s certain sata controllers that there is an incompatability issue with but the newer models they are realeasing this month will have resolved the issue.
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it’s nothing to do with windows man, it’s certain sata controllers that there is an incompatability issue with but the newer models they are realeasing this month will have resolved the issue.
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It seems to be a combination of both, but mainly due to Vista not being optimised with the use of SSDs in mind.[quote1228909435=Rsaeire]
It seems to be a combination of both, but mainly due to Vista not being optimised with the use of SSDs in mind.
[/quote1228909435]interesting… i thought it was specifically a hardware problem… nice to see vista is continuing to be a shitfest for serious computer users.
seemingly in that article sandisk are saying ” if you’re gonna buy a small drive you’re ok, but for bigger ones (32gb+) you’ll need to wait…”.
timmer3, so far how stable has your samsung ssd been? has the disk speed and/or battery life increase been worth the cost of the ssd?
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