Quick response needed - SSD in a Dell XPS 15 Laptop
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a decent SSD should have a noticable speed boost in any computer system really
But not that impressive if it's forced to run in ATA.
You would be pushed to tell the difference between a SSD running in IDE mode v AHCI mode unless doing Benchmarks. Im running an OCZ Vertex 2E on IDE mode and it still runs like a bat out of hell.
I've tested both, there was a noticeable difference. Two identical laptops sat side by side one with a Vertex 2E installed, one with a standard drive. Boot-up times, application load times were identical, I didn't bench read-writes, but I'd imagine there would have been some improvement there.
But the everyday performance increase I see on my desktop machine where everything is nice and snappy, I didn't see on this lappy running in IDE mode.
My system does state 'IDE Enhanced mode' in the BIOS but I doubt that would make much difference.
I'd like to know this also. Considering getting a Dell XPS 15 also (4gb ram, 1gb GPU). Although I was thinking about getting an external SSD, would this still be as quick as an intermal SSD?
The spark of interest for SSD drives only came recently when I watched a video of a 'Torture test' showing two PC's side by side, one launching from HDD, other from SSD - both PCs where set to open 70 programs from startup. Needless to say the SDD did it in around 3-4 minutes. As for the HDD? well the video had to be sped up by 200% so that it could finish in the youtube video limit.
The spark of interest for SSD drives only came recently when I watched a video of a 'Torture test' showing two PC's side by side, one launching from HDD, other from SSD - both PCs where set to open 70 programs from startup. Needless to say the SDD did it in around 3-4 minutes. As for the HDD? well the video had to be sped up by 200% so that it could finish in the youtube video limit.
The idea here is these laptops are being bought through work for the department. We don't get much input other than "do these look OK?".
They actually look very nice for our budget, with my main requirements being met, but my only question really was "do they support AHCI mode?". We could then consider putting in SSD's if we have the budget for it.
Unfortunately the Dell website doesn't state whether it does or not. I'd imagine it does being a relatively modern laptop, but would rather be sure.
They actually look very nice for our budget, with my main requirements being met, but my only question really was "do they support AHCI mode?". We could then consider putting in SSD's if we have the budget for it.
Unfortunately the Dell website doesn't state whether it does or not. I'd imagine it does being a relatively modern laptop, but would rather be sure.
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Just checked the bios settings for my dell xps and its sata operating mode is set to AHCI, if thats any help to ya, no ssd for me yet tho
