M17x ssd question, anyone here got an ssd in their M17x?

I am planning to order the M17x with either a single 256gb ssd or with either two of them. I have a few questions:

1. I read some reviews on newegg from people who were losing data or files getting corrupted with a ssd. Is this common on notebooks and did this happen to anyone here with a SSD on their M17x or laptop in general.

2. Also read that games tend to crash a lot on ssd's, anyone can shed some light on this? According to the review it was with steam and steam games.

3. Does anybody notice a big difference in temperture vs a normal hdd and a ssd? I remember my old Dell M1530 getting really hot under my left hand as the hdd was located right under that location where I rested my left hand.

4. Is there any other advantage that anyone noticed with a ssd besides faster boot times for the computer as well as the programs?


Thanks and I appreciate any help, looking to order the system sometime this week if I decide to get it.

 

ssd are faster more reliable and cooler as well as using less power leading to better battery life

Run on sentence FTW

The ones used by dell are all samsung internals and are pretty much some of the best ssd's on the market right now. They have the 256 GB model at a MUCH lower price than anywhere else ($480 vs $700)

I am going to buy one of these as soon as I can afford it.

 

1. The Samsung 2nd gen SSD - used by Dell in M17x just so happens to be one of the more reliable SSD around; whether in new, or used state.

If anything, SSDs do not have any moving part, making them potentially more reliable than traditional spinning HDD.

The extreme cases that causes corruption on SSD aren't realistic reflection of normal use, meaning there shouldn't be any problem with normal application. It's only when you start to fill the drive nearly full, and keep running h2testw, when the problem turns up, but thats asking for trouble yourself.

2. I don't see how that could happen. Probably driver issues.

3. Samsung 2nd gen 256gb is said to be quite cool; only certain brands of SSDs tend to heat up more. Considering Samsung targets the OEMs like Dell and Apple, their products would have underwent extensive amount of testing before shipping, thus its not likely to have overheating issues. Unless its faulty that is.

4. The general opinion here is, that once you tried SSD, it's hard to go back. If you could afford a pair of those drive for $800, why not give it a go?

 

hi I have one 256gb samsung ssd on my m17x and for the performance I will never go back to a spin drive but for the money yes! after using this on games applications even on regular web browsing you can see the difference installing programs is twice faster. to answer your question yes is worth to pay 600 dollars more for this maybe at the future the price drops but who knows when?

 

I L O V E my SSD drive, it is MUCH faster than the 7200rpm it's not even close.

 

i've got the 256 SSD and the comp is really quiet and also very fast. I'd say if you have the money or are thinking of getting it in the near future I'd just get it from the start. It is a good deal considering that newegg is selling 256 SSDs for like $700.

 

1. This is ridiculous, SSD have great reliability and you also can read about millions of people that lost files on HDD. You are being scared by people that probably dropped their PC from a 10 story high building directly in a lake of raw oil from the Exxon Valdez and then questioning the reliability of the Samsung SSD.

2. Games crash the same on SSD and HDD. It's all about drivers. Personally, I've yet to see a crash on my M17X with the 256gb SSD. (Everyone here knows I've complained a lot about the M17X but the SSD was never one of them)

3. The SSD is amazingly cooler, it's amazing. It's amazingly faster also than any 7200RPM laptop HDD I've ever had.

4. Better battery life, no noise, cooler, MUCH better performance in booting, loading files, using Photoshop and all similar apps. Performance while copying more than one file at a time is just unheard compare to any HDD that would fit in a laptop.

 

thabnks guys awesome feedback, looks like im going dual ssd 256 gb. I see the raid 0 option, its been a while since I looked at raid options, but raid 0 is when two of the hardrives acts as one right? So would it still hold 512 gigs of space or only 256 gigs? I remember raid 1 was two seperate hardrives in which one hardrive is only used for backing up the other hardrive.

 

Raid 0 is for performance they act as one big drive and you will get 512GB.

Raid 1 is for security and mirrors each drive. You still get 256GB but 2 times the exact data.