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Samsung SSD 830 2.5inch SATA III 256GB (€218 delivered from Amazon)
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marcbrophy wrote: »frozenfrozen, the 128GB is on dabs.ie for €101 at the moment!
Sweeeeeeeeeeet! buying now thank you very kindly!
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essentially yes. in the same way that a Bugatti Veyron is just a car.I don't get it. Whats its for?
Is it just 256GB hard drive essentially?
it's a solid state version of a hard drive, kind of like a usb flash drive, but much much faster.
it's not that big of a deal to swap out a HDD on a laptop, all you need is a small phillips screwdriver and a tiny bit of patience.marcbrophy wrote: »I'd love an SSD, but after looking into how I could install it into my inspiron, I'm not sure it's worth the hassle
i'm actually planning on adding my original HDD as a secondary drive into my laptop in the dvd drive bay with a hdd caddy for extra storage.0 -
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Damnit, why is pay day 2 weeks away and me with a wedding to go to this weekend? If the 256 is still that price after pay day, I may have to take the SSD plunge. Still gonna have to be swapping games in and out on my Steam install, but for warp speed load times, I'm not too stressed 0
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it's not that big of a deal to swap out a HDD on a laptop, all you need is a small phillips screwdriver and a tiny bit of patience.
i'm actually planning on adding my original HDD as a secondary drive into my laptop in the dvd drive bay with a hdd caddy for extra storage.
It looks like an awful mess on the inspirons though! You have remove the optical drive and the bloody keyboard and palm rest accourding to the dell website! :mad:
Is there some part that you can buy that you can put an ssd or hdd into the optical drive bay and still have a flush outer edge?0 -
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yes, i've already got one for whenever i finally upgrade the old hdd in my laptop.marcbrophy wrote: »It looks like an awful mess on the inspirons though! You have remove the optical drive and the bloody keyboard and palm rest accourding to the dell website! :mad:
Is there some part that you can buy that you can put an ssd or hdd into the optical drive bay and still have a flush outer edge?
the (potential) problems there though are that you may not be able to boot from it if it's in the optical bay (might depend on the model of laptop) and if you ever need to use a dvd drive, you'll need to fork out for an external one as your optical bay will be full already.
if you follow the online guides you should be fine, it's really not as difficult as it looks on the majority of laptops, although i really don't know why they don't all still position them somewhere with a removable cover for easy accessibility like the good old days.0 -
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yes, i've already got one for whenever i finally upgrade the old hdd in my laptop.
the (potential) problems there though are that you may not be able to boot from it if it's in the optical bay (might depend on the model of laptop) and if you ever need to use a dvd drive, you'll need to fork out for an external one as your optical bay will be full already.
if you follow the online guides you should be fine, it's really not as difficult as it looks on the majority of laptops, although i really don't know why they don't all still position them somewhere with a removable cover for easy accessibility like the good old days.
That's a cool casing right there, I never thought of re-using that basically unsued space. In the near 18 months that I've had this laptop, I've only used the optical drive a handful of times!
Assuming you set up the bios correctly, there should be no problem with it being bootable. On the plus side for me, I already have an external dvd burner over usb, but for yourself, could you not get an external housing for the one that you'll remove from your laptop that connects sata to usb?
Yeah, I reckon that it'd be easy enough once I started doing it alright! I think I'm just looking for an excuse not to spend more money on gadgets!! 0 -
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i picked mine up off ebay for a couple of quid. took a little while to arrive, but i've been planning this upgrade for a while so it made sense to get it ahead of time.marcbrophy wrote: »That's a cool casing right there, I never thought of re-using that basically unsued space. In the near 18 months that I've had this laptop, I've only used the optical drive a handful of times!
Assuming you set up the bios correctly, there should be no problem with it being bootable. On the plus side for me, I already have an external dvd burner over usb, but for yourself, could you not get an external housing for the one that you'll remove from your laptop that connects sata to usb?
Yeah, I reckon that it'd be easy enough once I started doing it alright! I think I'm just looking for an excuse not to spend more money on gadgets!!
if you want to pay a few extra quid, i'm sure you'll find a UK or EU based supplier for faster delivery.0 -
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doesnt matter you still wont get the speeds shown on box make it sata2-3Yes it should but you will not get the full speed of the drive.
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OCZ AGT3-25SAT3-120G Agility 3 120GB SATA III 2.5 inch SSD and got about 270-300 on empty drive,so those speeds displayed are only possible with right software which uses memory clusters to their full potential and in sequence to achieve speeds of 500-550.the only way two achieve advertised speed is to use raid mode with couple ssd the more the better if im not mistakin even to achieve 3gb/s you would need at least 6ssd drives working in raid mode.
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that's the point all manufacturers put on high numbers on the box but reality is only with compressed data and in sequence reading is that,one would achieve those speeds,as for number of ssd just wanted to be on the safe side with the count,better more then lessAgility 3 speeds are over estimated - they get slower the more the fill up and the results are only in ideal situation with compressible data.
Anyway, aside from that. Suppose it gets 550MB/s, you're talking about bytes - in bits, that's 550×8 = 4400Mb/s.
...which is well above 3Gbps (3000Mb/s).,hope those Samsungs do prove to be reliable,as so far ive only heard that only intel ones live up to standards and have least failure rates or problems with controllers,but they are the most expensive ones a swell.so need time till reviews start coming in. 0 -
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