The Basic Guide to Buying SSDs
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Great guide! But it should be noted that besides the increased speeds, SSDs have no moving parts, so are completely silent, produce less heat, and draw less power than spinning disk drives. All very...
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I'd rather have a six year old laptop with an SSD, than a brand new one without an SSD.
SSD's are THAT fast!!
Computing power has doubled every 18-24 months. Hard drives are stuck in the...
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I used Acronis True Image Home 2012 to move everything in my C:\ into the SSD when I got it. It was easy and worked like a charm. Just make sure your SSD is larger than your current used storage...
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This was an awesome article. Hope to read more of these on different products!
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The controller in the "4" series from OCZ uses a trick, treats MLC like SLC until the flash is used 50%. Once at 51% the controller switches back to MLC mode and the drive slows considerably. Stick...
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Anything but a fresh install when moving from HDD to SSD is not recommended because you have to do partition realignment and you have to make sure TRIM is enabled, defrag is disabled, etc. If you...
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I got an OCZ last week and it died the first day. Was disappointed with that. Returned and awaiting replacement. Hopefully this one will be OK. Will not be very happy if in 4 months it dies (or...
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mSATA is usually slower (was sata 2 on my lenovo w530) as opposed to sata 3 for the 2.5"
in addition, i had a mushkin one for all of 1 week before it died. Luckily i used it for storage but it...
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first!
thanks for the useful info, i finally gave up avoiding this sweet upgrade
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cool, from what i understood, its mostly used for programs. i was confused when one of my coworkers wanted one for pictures, lol
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Ditto that. Put one in a basic intel core i3 laptop running windows 7 and it made an amazing improvement in boot time, downloading updates, restarts, and shut downs. The machine seems to operate...
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try "ghost"
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True...one thing the article does not mention is that SSD cells have a limited shelf life. Meaning they can only be overwritten a certain amount of times before they die. The SSD keeps tracks of...
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Good info.
I stick to regular magnetic hard drives. My own experience with Flash memory has been a nightmare. Sudden I/O device errors, finding high rates of corrupted bits after a file transfer...
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That's why they implemented wear leveling so cells are written to on a consistent and even basis. The actually lifespan of these writes is unclear though for consumer applications. It could last 5...
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I just installed 256GBV4 from Crucial. It's screaming fast on my mid-2009 Macbook 15 inch Pro. Well worth it.
Several years ago, ever since Apple released Snow Leopard, I thought that if I...
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thank you for the great article! learned some great info!
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I have been really happy with the Crucial M4. They have gotten so cheap! I have purchased 3 and they have all exceeded my expectations.
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Very true. I went from about a 30 second load up time on photoshop, to about 6 seconds with the upgrade to an SSD.
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thanks for this information...
nice job
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Second.
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It's a worthwhile upgrade, assuming you can swallow the price and size constraints, on any system!
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Thanks for the info!
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does it matter which ssd for mac or pc?
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It shouldn't but it's a good idea to check with mac users on a commonly used SSD since there have been problems in the past. Also you will need to take extra steps on OS X to get TRIM enabled.
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Say I want to buy a SSD solely for my OS and Office. Is there an easy way to move my OS from where it currently resides to an SSD?
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Just ordered one ...trying to get that latest and greatest without paying that much more!! lowest SATA 3 256GB models were going for $150 picked this one up for $190 worth it for me!
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Do you guys think I should purchase an mSATA SSD instead? My laptop has an mSATA slot, so I can actually use my old hard drive as a main source for storage. However, if I use the 2.5" SSD, then I...
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It's very easy to move your OS to the SSD. There will sometimes come bundled with the SSD a disk transfer kit, basically a cable that plugs into the SSD and the other end into the USB of your system,...
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SSD is perfect for photo processing also. People have used it as scratch disk to speed up Photoshop. Lightroom can also benefit from SDD.
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Purchased an OCZ SSD 4 months later it died and had to deal with RMA'n it from the manufacture
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Please back up your SSDs at least weekly to a magnetic drive.
My Corsair F120 failed twice.
All my saved games are gone.
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There is a great SSD guide here on how to install and optimize your OS if you decided to go with that. Hope that helps.
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Data recovery is virtually non-existent on SSDs and that's a good thing IMO. With TRIM enabled, once the file has been marked as deleted it's, for all intents and purposes, gone. Yes, some...
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Night and day difference...
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Thanks for the info.
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By now, a good number of Slickdealers have traded in their old hard drives to SSDs. The consistently high number of thumbs ups on SSD deals however, leads us to believe that the majority of...
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OCZ Vertex 4 is one of the best.
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