notebook eat steroids! SSD

[Froggy]

...................STDs???

 

[johnny333]

Sandisk not really good at manufacturing SSDs. Intel SSDs are good, but more expensive. Don't get OCZ.....recently declared bankruptcy. lol

Not that surprised they went bankrupt because after reading about all the problems unhappy OCZ customers had, I stayed away from OCZ. I'm sure many others did the same.

Toshiba is buying over the company & they have a better reputation.

 

[cheesecake]

...................STDs???

SSD (Solid State Drive) is the new Hard Disk replacement(not really new), but much better as it loads much faster (about 3 times faster). It has no moving parts unlike the old type that spins. If you do not have it, why not get one for your PC? It will improve the performance by a large margin. Merge it to your old hard disk for storage as you need not get a large capacity SSD. 240 MB should be sufficient.

 

[laksaboy]

SSD (Solid State Drive) is the new Hard Disk replacement(not really new), but much better as it loads much faster (about 3 times faster). It has no moving parts unlike the old type that spins. If you do not have it, why not get one for your PC? It will improve the performance by a large margin. Merge it to your old hard disk for storage as you need not get a large capacity SSD. 240 MB should be sufficient.

LOL 240MB.

 

[cheesecake]

LOL 240MB.

Why not? Larger than that will cost much more. Why do you need a larger SSD?

 

[Froggy]

SSD (Solid State Drive) is the new Hard Disk replacement(not really new), but much better as it loads much faster (about 3 times faster). It has no moving parts unlike the old type that spins. If you do not have it, why not get one for your PC? It will improve the performance by a large margin. Merge it to your old hard disk for storage as you need not get a large capacity SSD. 240 MB should be sufficient.

Thanks for explanation. After reading went to check now I know why my MacAir is so fast.

 

[halsey02]

KNN, had my notebook upgrade to SSD. now, notebook machiam eat steroids. fucking fast! knn, techonolgy really good.

My "555" notebook, still the best....open up fast & shut fast!!

 

[JuliaScissors]

Why not? Larger than that will cost much more. Why do you need a larger SSD?

You were probably referring to gigabytes?
My basic Win 7 + the regular runtimes and software already 10GB .

 

[cheesecake]

Yes, I meant 240 GB....my bad:o

 

[NewWorldRecord]

Samsung uncloaks 'industry's first' one-terabyte mSATA SSD

Little guy aimed at Ultrabook, ultrathin, 2-in-one, or other mobile mega-money machines

By Rik Myslewski, 10th December 2013

Samsung has revealed what it dubs the "industry's first" one-terabyte solid-state drive in the compact mSATA form factor. From what we know of the SSD landscape, their claim is an honest one – by over a factor of two, seeing as how 480GB mSATA SSDs from Crucial and a few others are the most capacious such drives available in the non-OEM market of which we're aware.

The pretty side of the 1TB mSATA 840 EVO SSD ...

SSDs in the mSATA – mini-Serial ATA – form factor are targeted at thin and light laptops, such as what Intel has trademarked as Ultrabooks and AMD calls ultrathins. The little fellows could also find homes in the tablet-laptop mashups Chipzilla has dubbed "2-in-1s", formerly known as "convertibles", or even in tablets, should your wallet be thick enough to spring for one.

Not that we know yet exactly how thick that wallet would need to be. Although Samsung announced the mSATA additions to its 840 EVO SSD line on Monday – the SATA line was announced in July – and said that it would be available globally later this month, it didn't provide a price for either the 1TB version or its 120GB, 250GB, and 500GB siblings.

According to Samsung, the new mSATA form factor is approximately a quarter the size of a standard SATA 2.5-inch SSD. In its 1TB configuration, the mSATA drive is 3.85mm thick and weighs 8.5 grams – about 40 per cent as thick and one-twelfth as heavy as a "typical" hard disk drive.

... and the more workaday side of the same li'l fellow

To fit 1TB onto the mSATA form factor, Samsung crams four memory packages onto the mSATA card, with each package having 16 layers of 128Gb NAND chips, each fabbed in what Sammy refers to as its "10-nanometer class process technology."

The 1TB version can perform 98,000 random read and 90,000 random write IOPS, Samsung says, and can achieve sequential read speeds of 540 MB/sec and write speeds of 520 MB/sec. When running Samsung's Magician 4.3 software, the company claims sequential read speeds can be goosed to over 1GB/sec in RAPID (real-time accelerated processing of I/O data) mode – a performance than Sammy says is "approximately twice that of a typical SATA SSD and ten times of an average HDD."

That level of performance is nowhere near that of the 3GB/sec that Samsung claims for its enterprise-level 1.6TB XS1715 SSD, which connects to its host over the PCIe-based NVMe – non-volatile memory express – protocol, but for a laptop or tablet, 1GB/sec ain't shabby. ®

 

[cheesecake]

Adding an SSD is the cheapest and best method of increasing the data transfer rate of an old PC using a normal HDD apart from adding more RAMS. Apart from that whatever new and faster SSD out in the market is good when one is buying a new PC provided the rest of the other hardware and firmware in the PC can keep up with the new technology. Otherwise there will be a bottleneck which will limit the speed.

 

[Logisex]

It will increase software loading speed but not internet speed

 

[johnny333]

Thanks for explanation. After reading went to check now I know why my MacAir is so fast.

The Mac Air were the first production portable to uses an SSDs as the main storage. However the computer's RAM cannot be upgraded because the RAM is soldered onto the motherboard. That's why it is important to select a model with the adequate RAM.

 

[cheesecake]

It will increase software loading speed but not internet speed

Yes not related to internet speed. Here it explains better.

 

[Froggy]

The Mac Air were the first production portable to uses an SSDs as the main storage. However the computer's RAM cannot be upgraded because the RAM is soldered onto the motherboard. That's why it is important to select a model with the adequate RAM.

I normally order online so can select many options so my mac normally quite fat in options

 

[johnny333]

I normally order online so can select many options so my mac normally quite fat in options

When I got my Macpro portable the firsts thing I did was to max out the RAM to 16GB. Then spent $ on getting a plastic shell, palm rest protector, track pad protector,..... It's such a pretty notebook & I wanted to preserve it

Now I'm planning to get an Ipad & have already bought the screen protector & leather case/keyboard. When you buy a beautiful Apple product you need to consider not only the machines spec but also how to properly dress the works of art:o