pow
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Had the Alienware now for 4 months, love it it's brilliant.
Just wondering if now is the time to buy a SSD for it? Fancy sticking a non-alienware-branded version of Windows 7 on it and getting it running sweet!
£160 for a 128GB drive seems reasonable to me...
Looking at:
http://www.dabs.com/products/kingston-128gb-ssdnow-v-series-sata-300-2-5--6LTZ.html?refs=4294948431
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Nismo
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Why get such a large SSD, just get a 40Gb SSD for like £50 and whack the OS on it, then stick a 500gb / 1Tb SATA in for docs & data.
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VrsTurbo
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quote:
Originally posted by Nismo
Why get such a large SSD, just get a 40Gb SSD for like £50 and whack the OS on it, then stick a 500gb / 1Tb SATA in for docs & data.
that would be great if the laptop could have 2 harddiscs
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VrsTurbo
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but i would stay its not worth it unless your running apps that you want to open quicker or games.
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noshua
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Do these drives still have a limited number of read/write cycles as well as the speed dramatically decreasing as the drive fills up?
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Neo
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quote:
Originally posted by noshua
Do these drives still have a limited number of read/write cycles as well as the speed dramatically decreasing as the drive fills up?
They used to, we managed to kill a few SSD's in a matter of days constantly writing data to them. This was about 3 1/2 years ago however. I would hope they have sorted the issue by now though.
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Rob_Quads
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
£160 for a 128GB drive seems reasonable to me...
Looking at:
http://www.dabs.com/products/kingston-128gb-ssdnow-v-series-sata-300-2-5--6LTZ.html?refs=4294948431
Its cheaper because its the older gen slower version. IMO its not worth going for an SSD unless you go for one of the faster ones which are currently around the 190 mark for one that does Read 285MB/s, Write 275MB/s. These are approaching the most we are going to see from the SATA2 breed of SSDs.
The speeds are only going to get quicker but soon will be limited by other things i.e. SATA3 discs will be when they really start to make a huge difference but then you will need SATA3 capable hardware which is quite rate at the moment.
Take a look at scan - they are very good at showing the comparitive speeds of the discs in the titles which make comparing them much eaier i.e. http://www.scan.co.uk/Shop/Computer-Hardware/All/Hard-Drives-SSD/Solid-State-Drives-%28SSD-18-25%29-80GB-500GB
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pow
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I'm not sure that the M11x is SATA3 compatable though 
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Bart
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I bought 3x 60gb Samsung SSDs when they were on offer @ £90 each! they're back up tpo £153.
Raid 0 on SSD is the way to go 
Like the kingston, Ive got the MLC which is marginally slower, although the sammy MLC is faster than the kingston IIRC.
Without any question, buying / raiding the samsung SSD's is the fastest and most noticable upgrade ive ever witnessed.
Ive got 8GB Ram and an Intel QX9650 and it thunders along
[Edited on 27-10-2010 by Bart]
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pow
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I'm getting the idea that this isn't worth it really. The M11x is a laptop with one 2.5@ SATA bay.
I might just buy a 1TB drive and use that now  
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