SSD for Notebook

Looking to replace slow 500Gig laptop drive with something fast and close in size. Intel vs Samsung vs OCZ
i feel inclined to go for the intel.
 
You will pay a fortune for a 500GB SSD if you can even find one. SSD is still expensive. Don't quote me but you could be looking around R3000 - R3500 for a 120GB (Haven't seen prices in a while). If you can afford a large SSD then fantastic but if not I would recommend getting the 120GB or even an 80GB SSD to run your laptop and then get a 1TB 2.5" external drive for storage. I'm currently using an SSD in my laptop and I will never go back, it is ultra fast. Today I saw a new clients HP laptop boot from cold into Win7 in 8 seconds....Nice!
 
ash376501 said:
Looking to replace slow 500Gig laptop drive with something fast and close in size. Intel vs Samsung vs OCZ
i feel inclined to go for the intel.
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If you looking for something close in size good luck.. I'm just looking for a reasonable priced and fast 60GB or bigger SSD
I'd go for the seagate momentus XT then its a hybrid drive. What are the real world speed comparisons between a hybrid and a SSD anyone??
 
SomeoneEls said:
If you looking for something close in size good luck.. I'm just looking for a reasonable priced and fast 60GB or bigger SSD
I'd go for the seagate momentus XT then its a hybrid drive. What are the real world speed comparisons between a hybrid and a SSD anyone??
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Check storagereview, I think they had a review of it.
 
I bought myself a 128Gb SSD last year for about R2100. Still using it and happy.
I won't go back. If space is a problem I have a R500gb external 2.5 I use.
 
SomeoneEls said:
If you looking for something close in size good luck.. I'm just looking for a reasonable priced and fast 60GB or bigger SSD
I'd go for the seagate momentus XT then its a hybrid drive. What are the real world speed comparisons between a hybrid and a SSD anyone??
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Here's a great example of how all 4 drives compare (7,200 rpm, 10,000 rpm, SSD and Seagate XT Hyrbid. Click on the XT hybrid link and the video demonstration is at the bottom of the page. Seagate XT is the ultimate combination of speed and storage capacity.
 
@South_Bit: I NEVER trust performance reviews from the manufacturer itself.

Here are some reviews from 3rd-parties:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-review-finally-a-good-hybrid-hdd/2
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...ntus-xt-500gb-hybrid-hard-drive-review-8.html
http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_momentus_xt_review

In general the performance of the Momentus XT drive is much better than that of the HDD's when it comes to launching of operating systems and applications, which happen regularly. The performance of random read & writes are NO WHERE NEAR that of pure SSD's.

So ja, the Momentus XT is ideal if you're using your laptop mainly for word processing and storing large data, where you'll start & stop applications on a regular basis and not dealing with a lot of really small files.

@all:
I bought my G.Skill Phoenix 120GB SSD from Wootware for R2000 in Q3/Q4 of last year and I'm very pleased with it's performance in my desktop PC that has a Core i7 940 + 6GB RAM + 1.5TB HDD.
I actually installed the SSD in my Dell laptop, which has 3.25GB RAM (usable) and a T7200 (2.0GHz dual core) CPU and the performance difference over it's 100GB HDD was most definitely noticeable, BUT the CPU was a major bottleneck.
 
Pada said:
@South_Bit: I NEVER trust performance reviews from the manufacturer itself.

Here are some reviews from 3rd-parties:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-review-finally-a-good-hybrid-hdd/2
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...ntus-xt-500gb-hybrid-hard-drive-review-8.html
http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_momentus_xt_review

In general the performance of the Momentus XT drive is much better than that of the HDD's when it comes to launching of operating systems and applications, which happen regularly. The performance of random read & writes are NO WHERE NEAR that of pure SSD's.

So ja, the Momentus XT is ideal if you're using your laptop mainly for word processing and storing large data, where you'll start & stop applications on a regular basis and not dealing with a lot of really small files.
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I'm in agreement with you :) If you (not you, the public) understand the technology behind the XT then it's obvious as to it's strenghts and weaknesses. It uses its SSD basically as a cache of the most commonly used files, so OS files, Office files (if you use Office frequently) etc. So sure, it will boot up much faster than a normal HDD and will perform very well with actions you perform on a regular basis. But at the end of the day it's still a mechanical drive, so does suffer from those disadvantages with regard to random reads/writes.

Every drive has its place in the world, and the XT fits nicely between HDDs and SSDs I feel. Don't worry, I wasn't implying that an XT is on par with an SSD, they are completely different animals.
 
I have a 512GB Toshiba SSD for sale for R6500. Read: 230MB/s Write: 180MB/s. I can give a money back guarantee.
 
SSDs are super expensive, wish the prices would come down already.
 
They have started somewhat, I bought a Gen2 Intel 80Gb SSD a while ago and it went for R2500, for the same money now, you can get one of the new 128Gb ADATA or 120Gb Corsair, etc etc.
And the performance of these new SSD's are incredible, the newer ones with the SATAIII interfaces reading and writing above 500Mb/s Z O M G
 
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