What brand of SSD does Dell use in Latitudes?

Just curious. Anybody know?

 

Last I heard it was still Samsung. Afaik, I have no reason to believe that it still isn't Samsung.

 

2.5" usually are Samsung rebrand. If Dell offered mSATA probably Toshiba or Samsung.

 

Are they SATA 2 or 3? I'm thinking of upgrading my new Vostro 3350. Also, I can save about $60 by sticking with SATA 2. Good idea or not?

 

Probably a good idea but it depends on if you can really use the faster speeds from SATA 3. The biggest difference for me between SATA 2 and 3 is booting in 12 seconds instead of 15.

 

Honestly you need to ask yourself if you really need an SSD? If you do constant reboots, do tons of I/O on your machine, then yes. Just email and office work, then no.

For normal use 4k is a better benchmark, and SATA 2 would save you a fair chunk of change. Though if you resold the SSD, SATA 3 would be worth a little bit more down the line.