Would ths SSD work well in my G73JH?

Just bought a 256GB SSD for little over 300$, it was a good deal i had to jump on it and it was wondering if this SSD would be any good in my JH??
I'm not so good on SSDs so maybe you guys can help me?!?
The reviews were really good, the only bad point people said was the price but since i got it at a good price i guess thats not a bad point for me.

Samsung MMD0E56G5MXP-0VBD1 (256GB, SATA SSD) Hard Drive
Samsung MMD0E56G5MXP-0VBD1 (256GB, SATA SSD) Hard Drive on eBay.ca (item 320633781102 end time 24-Dec-10 11:23:52 EST)

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That looks like a decent drive (good read/write 220/200 mbs), and you paid $1.26 per GB which is exceptional. Sandforce 1200 drives are the fastest ones out right now (285/275 Mbs) and you can get them for $1.55 per GB, so you got an excellent deal per GB. My only concern is that you bought a drive without a warranty basically. If the drive was pulled from a dell, and samsung has the S/N (which they probably do), then if you have an issue with it then Samsung will defer to Dell for service...and since you didn't buy the Dell in question, then you get no warranty.

If the drive works great then no big deal, but if it doesn't you're in trouble. SSDs are a new tech, so they aren't as reliable as regular HDD. Most are warrantied for 3 years (which is about how long before we would probably upgrade anyway), but many people think because of the limited Read/write cycles (10,000ish), they could wear out before 3 years. Most drives are also rated for 1 or 2 million hours, which is longer than any of us will use any single computer, so who knows how long they will really last. If yours wears out in a year, you have to buy a new one.

Hopefully the seller had high integrity and did not damage it or use the drive a ton before selling it to you, not that is should matter because 10,000 cycles is still a lot.

Once you get it, go to the "new G73" link in my signature, scroll to bottom, and perform the SSD tweaks listed there. Actually, just do a freash install altogether so you know everything is good, then do the SSD tweaks.

HOPE this helps. You got a VERY large drive for an excellent price. I'm sure it will work fine and you will be very happy with it. I have a 120gb and have windows 7, office, all my other programs, Crysis, Civ5, Supreme Commander, & COD:Black Ops installed and I still have 60gb left. You are going to have so much space for games I doubt you'll ever use it.

Merry Christmas

 

Wow, thank you so much for your feedback it's really a great answer. Also i might just get a warranty off square trade for about 40$ for 2 years. Well i just hope everything goes well with the drive. Thanks a lot...also whats the link to the ssd tweaks? i could see it in your guide

 

If you have an SSD do this... http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...-intel-series-4-5-965-chipsets-jjb-tweak.html

and this...

http://thessdreview.com/optimization-guides/the-ssd-optimization-guide-2/

 

Ive checked the sandforce 1200 ssds and for 256gb they were around 1000$, which is way out of my budget for storage on a computer. The strict minimum I could have is 256gb and most decent drives are close to 500-600$. So I guess I've had luck finding this drive, just hope it's gonna last. In any case is there a test I can do to check it...I guess i can't check it for bad sectors....what can be done?

 

You might want to check and see if the Samsung you're looking at supports TRIM. I know that a lot of the earlier and OEM Samsungs did not support TRIM.

 

Well from what I've read, most samsung ssds don't...is that a big problem? I guess maybe a slight decrease in transferring large files over time?

 

It can be. Here's an good read on TRIM:

Why TRIM is Important to Solid State Hard Drives

 

TRIM is important. Basically most drives are good for 10,000 read/write cycles. Meaning you can copy something on and off 10k times to any part of the drive before it will wear out. TRIM makes it so rather than one part of the drive getting written on over and over, all the writes get spread over the entire drive. This makes it so rather than one part wearing out quickly, the whole drive ages at the same speed. This is essential since the drive only has so many writes before it dies (theoretically). So if you had a drive w/o trim, it could wear out certain areas faster than a drive w/trim.

Check this out...

http://www.samsungssd.com/faq

According to it, "All Samsung branded consumer solid state drives offer TRIM support."

I would let windows 7 format the drive when you do a fresh install. But first I would install the drive as a non-boot drive (2nd HDD), boot your current drive, then check the firmware and update if necessary.

Review of Samsung SSD 2.5 inch PB22-J 256GB MLC SATA300 MMD0E56G5MXP-0VB, Review Samsung SSD 2.5 inch PB22-J 256GB MLC SATA300 MMD0E56G5MXP-0VB - SSD

Sounds like a good drive, but it could be a year and half old, hopefully is it isn't worn a lot.

 

Ya I've seen all those reviews but they are all 2 yrs old so I discredited them.
I'll try mounting the ssd in 2nd bay and try some stuff there, thanks for the tips

Does anybody know why sometimes my replys don't appear until I post again?

 

Have you hit refresh? Also did you look on page 2?

 

yes, i hit refresh and the only time it appears is when i repost

 

You are right, same thing just happened to me on another post, I needed to hit refresh to see my post, after that it was good.