Laptop with SSD

DRP

Avoriaz wrote: »

Last year I fitted a 128gb SanDisk SSD into my then 3 year old Acer 8935g laptop.

It cost me about £60 and is worth every penny.

Faster boot ups and less heat generated. I use the laptop literally. It is usually balanced on my thighs as I sit on a sofa so I can feel any excessive heat.

The fan hardly ever comes on now, even with hours of use.

The laptop has a second drive bay but I don't bother with that. 128 gb is plenty for everything apart from my video and music files. I keep them on a 1tb hard disk in an external USB2 caddy and only connect that when required.

Agree, an SSD gave my 4yo toshiba laptop a new lease of life - it would have gone in the bin until a friend suggested SSD. MAde a massive difference, and i was able to use the old HDD as an backup in the DVD slot and then put the dvd player in an 10 quid external caddy.

It really is a huge improvement - windows boots in 10-15seconds and programmes start almost immediately.

GingerWarrior

Thank you to everyone who's given their input here. Seems to be a mixture of getting a laptop with a hybrid drive or adding/replacing with an SDD. Decisions decisions.

Not sure whether my (or actually my OH's) Zoostorm Kangeroo VME50 is worth adding a new SDD.

GingerWarrior

Only me again - but how can I find out how easy it is to install an SDD drive into my laptop?

globalds

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/crucial-mx100-2-5-internal-ssd-256-gb-69-99-pc-world-2049702

cheap as chips

And with something like acronis it is pretty easy to just copy everything onto your new ssd if you have something like an old portable hard drive to stick the ssd in whilst it is copying

GingerWarrior

globalds wrote: »

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/crucial-mx100-2-5-internal-ssd-256-gb-69-99-pc-world-2049702

cheap as chips

And with something like acronis it is pretty easy to just copy everything onto your new ssd if you have something like an old portable hard drive to stick the ssd in whilst it is copying

I saw that earlier on HDUK but there's no stock locally.

Buying an SSD is the easy part, it's installing it is the struggle!

globalds

I used an old usb hard drive I had and just stuck the ssd inside and then used acronis true image to image the whole drive it took quite a while but really didn't need any skill

GingerWarrior

Out of interest - would this SSD be compatible with this laptop?

EDIT - scrap that, according to the Crucial website, the laptop isn't compatible once I did their scan

Kernel_Sanders

silkcutblue wrote: »

it sure was when I nabbed one from John Lewis. .

Did you do this during the London Riots?:)

Another advantage of SSDs not yet mentioned is the severe damage you can do if dropping your laptop whilst the HDD is spinning, because the arm delivering the laser mustn't come into physical contact with said disc.

Gloomendoom

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

Did you do this during the London Riots?:)

Another advantage of SSDs not yet mentioned is the severe damage you can do if dropping your laptop whilst the HDD is spinning, because the arm delivering the laser mustn't come into physical contact with said disc.

I thought most laptops had an an accelerometer that retracted the arm.

arriva

almillar wrote: »

Please note - if you're reading this in a couple of years - these were the olden days.

:rotfl: brilliant :rotfl: