Need a new notebook drive... ?

LeperousDust

LeperousDust

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Do i go with the 500Gb Seagate Momentus hybrid SSD for speed ~£100

orrrrrr

750Gb western digital for maximum storage? ~£85

Cannot decide at all, i do feel like 500Gb might just be enough, that's what i was running, (but its true you really do never have enough space i had about 10Gb spare at all times ) but 750Gb in 9.5 form sounds deliciously large (but again i will just fill it with useless crap)...

:(
 
SSD are amazing, yet still very expensive for something decent, also i do need some space on the notebook in question... There kinda ruled out due to this, i would LOVE an SSD in all honesty though :)
 
But that isn't their hybrid tech is it? So its still essentially the same situation i'm in now, well its a little faster i give that, i don't know. I just can't choose :( Trying to stop thinking about SSD at twice the price and a quarter of the volume. I'm really stuck here...
 
Jesus, why is it i try and buy anything i budget, but then spend twice as much? This place is bad bad bad for my wallet... :(

Debating a ~128Gb sandforce/c300 of some sort, but i really don't know if its totally worth it. The laptop its going in only has a dual core SU2300 (peryn) inside, so i don't know how well it'll cope with a massively quick SSD, seems pointless if its a bottleneck...
 
I had the same dilemma with SSD's and a SU7300 laptop (1.3GHz), but decided to hold off as the SSD costs over a third the value of the system.

I was considering a Kingston V series 128GB or the Corsair Reactor 120GB for roughly the same price of £175. And even though these don't compare to the current OCZ models, they will still beat a mechanical drive hands down for responsiveness. It's only when you run benchmarks that they look inadequate.
 
C300 is only good for you if you have a sata III 6gb/s port otherwise it's gonna be Intel or vertex 2 for a laptop. I just put in my old Corsair p128 to my daughters Dell Inspiron and she was very happy with it. The old seagate 160GB is now in a nice 2.5 caddy and serves as her travelling back-up.
 
Ahhh i need to think about this a little more, i've got the asus UL30, need to check what i can get away with. Why am i even considering an SSD now, guys what are you doing to me? :p
 
@LeperousDust

Have a looksie at this. It's a nice video comparison of some different types of drives available. I guess the choice really comes down to whether you're concerned about speed or not. You could get the Momentus XT and just be a little more disciplined with yourself and not fill it with junk :D There's always the option of an external drive for the not-so-important items that you will inevitably collect over time... :p

I'm also looking to replace the hard drive in my laptop. I want to fit an SSD, but I'm not sure which one to pick.

I have a Crucial M225 128gb in my desktop, and it's brilliant. However, I'm seriously tempted by a Vertex 2E for my laptop. I'd need around 100-128gb preferably, as that seems to be the perfect amount of storage for me.

Any recommendations?

Didn't want to start a new thread for this as it's under the same theme as OP's thread title. If it's seen as hijacking I'll make a new thread :)
 
LeperousDust said:
Ahhh i need to think about this a little more, i've got the asus UL30, need to check what i can get away with. Why am i even considering an SSD now, guys what are you doing to me? :p
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I have an old PB22-J in my UL30A. Very pleased with the results, even though the SSD drive isn't that quick. Starts up in 20 secs, shut downs in well under 10 secs, everything's nice and nippy.

It's the read access time that make the SSD shine, and mine's good enough. I wonder if for you, getting a older and cheaper SSD with decent capacity would do the trick.

Then again, you have to ask yourself how much space you actually need on your notebook / laptop, and what it does for you. For me, I'm only at 20GB usage atm, since I use it mostly for internet on the move, coding (Visual Studio), and word processing. So I could see 60GB being a possibility. Even adding some music and half a dozen movies / I-Player in preparation for a trip will not fill that up.

You just need to maintain it a bit (back to the good old days :)), and use it as temporary storage.

Or just not bother and stick in a large capacity mechanical drive, with all that entails.
 
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I have just been reading up on the Momentus XT actually as im thinking of one for my desktop and i would say go for one of them and like others have suggested backup your other stuff on a external if you need to :)
 
Virt that really puts it in perspective, makes the momentus XT look immense, and price per gb is waaaaay better than the SSD's i'm looking at. Think you might have just sold me man! I won't be doing much on the laptop the same things over and over, but i want those to be fast, which i guess is where the momentus shines!

Cheers guys :)
 
So how does this momentus work exactly? Install app onto hdd and then when it recognizes the pattern and switches the app to the 'SSD' part but thats only 4gb? so if i say install GTA onto the hdd (around 8gb) and play it often will it still boot fast off the 4gb 'SSD' once it recognizes its used a lot?
 
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