When you get money rolling in and you happen to have a penchant for buying technology it gets very tempting to spent it on things which aren't particularly necessary, for instance, putting a SSD into a laptop.
I'm very tempted to do this, my laptop runs everything I want it to, for instance Minecraft and the few other games I occasionally play, but having the ability to boot and recover from sleep as fast as SSD's show you can then it is hard not to.
Obviously the problem with doing this in a laptop and not a desktop is that if you do not have two hard drive bays then the SSD will be the only capacity in your laptop, so a size too small isn't going to be helpful, which means the price which you can actually start buying at goes up.
For me i'd probably go for around a 240/300gb hard drive, my current hard drive is 320gb and I have a serious amount of space in there which I know i'll never fill.
Then it comes down to speeds, you're going to pay more if you want a larger impact on the boot times, a normal hard drive will probably read at about 70mb/s, when it's in a decent condition, so if you're going to be spending around 200-250$.
At these prices the read speeds vary from 210mb/s to around 400, so it really depends what reviews you've heard or what size you want really.
I'm probably going to buy either a crucial or an ocz, I know both are very capable of what i'd task them with so when I get round to it, I'll buy it.
Goodbye for now.
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Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Monday, 31 January 2011
SSDs.
The not necessarily brand new, but a subject worth covering.
ssd have had long enough now to come in capacities of normal hard drives, but unfortunately the prices associated with these are more than extortionate.
For a 1 terabyte ssd, the prices are in the thousands of dollars.
When you can get a 1 terabyte hard drive for around fifty.
Again, although i'm English i'm talking in dollars because that's where my audience seems to be.
Although the kind of ssd you need will ultimately come down to how you intend to use it.
If you're going to be using a ssd as a primary and your only drive then you'll need a drive with an equally good write speed as read speed (OCZ have good drives for this, 285mb/s read 275mb/s write. Although if you're only using the ssd as the operating system drive and then a larger spinpoint hard drive as the slave then you can negate a larger write speed for a greater read speed (Corsair C300s are perfect with 355mb/s read 75mb/s write).
PCI-E ssds are even faster, but the speed does come with a considerably larger price tag.
A 50gb PCI-E ssd will cost you $215, that is a serious amount of money for such a small amount of storage.
Even with 540mb/s read and 450mb/s write.
In summary, if you're willing to purchase a ssd for the prices which are around then go ahead.
My recommendation is get an operating system drive, like the Corsair C300, then just have a larger spinpoint drive, for instance the Samsung F3. This combination would cost $185 from newegg, that is good for the speed and capacity you would be getting out of it.
I'll see you all again, but goodbye for now.
ssd have had long enough now to come in capacities of normal hard drives, but unfortunately the prices associated with these are more than extortionate.
For a 1 terabyte ssd, the prices are in the thousands of dollars.
When you can get a 1 terabyte hard drive for around fifty.
Again, although i'm English i'm talking in dollars because that's where my audience seems to be.
Although the kind of ssd you need will ultimately come down to how you intend to use it.
If you're going to be using a ssd as a primary and your only drive then you'll need a drive with an equally good write speed as read speed (OCZ have good drives for this, 285mb/s read 275mb/s write. Although if you're only using the ssd as the operating system drive and then a larger spinpoint hard drive as the slave then you can negate a larger write speed for a greater read speed (Corsair C300s are perfect with 355mb/s read 75mb/s write).
PCI-E ssds are even faster, but the speed does come with a considerably larger price tag.
A 50gb PCI-E ssd will cost you $215, that is a serious amount of money for such a small amount of storage.
Even with 540mb/s read and 450mb/s write.
In summary, if you're willing to purchase a ssd for the prices which are around then go ahead.
My recommendation is get an operating system drive, like the Corsair C300, then just have a larger spinpoint drive, for instance the Samsung F3. This combination would cost $185 from newegg, that is good for the speed and capacity you would be getting out of it.
I'll see you all again, but goodbye for now.
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