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    g73jh SSD

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Venjirai, Apr 19, 2011.

  1. Venjirai

    Venjirai Newbie

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    Hello,

    I'm the owner of a g73jh-tz091v notebook and plan to replace one of the 500 GB HD with a SSD.

    I found those 2 interesting offers:

    Amazon.com: Crucial Technology 128 GB Crucial RealSSD C300 Series Solid State Drive CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1: Electronics

    and

    Amazon.com: Corsair 120 GB Force Series Ultra Fast TRIM Supported Solid State Drive CSSD-F120GB2-BRKT: Electronics


    Those support read speeds up to 280 - 355 MB/s which is a lot higher than the 80-90 MB/s of my HD.

    Will replacing on of the HD really make much of a difference?

    I have read that the g73jh-tz091v has S-ATA 150 and therefore only supports read speeds up to 150 MB/s. Is that true?

    And which one of those two SSDs would you recommend, or is there even a better one in that price range?

    So long!
     
    Venjirai, Apr 19, 2011
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  2. alewillywonka

    alewillywonka Newbie

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    alewillywonka, Apr 19, 2011
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  3. Nakano2k1

    Nakano2k1 Notebook Consultant

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    The HM55 chipset will degrade SSD performance considerably, so I would buy whatever is cheapest at the time with the best quality track record.
     
    Nakano2k1, Apr 19, 2011
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  4. arstron

    arstron Notebook Guru

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    I Currently own 3 OCZ Vertex (two 60gig and one 30gig) and just recieved my new 120gig Vertex 2, which I installed in my g73jh-a2. You will not notice a performance increase in games with an SSD, what you will notice a diffrence is load times in windows, games, and apps that you have installed on the ssd. I really like OCZ becuse they are really supporting their SSD's, there has been numerous firmware updates to fix small problems and add tweaks. Thats a big plus in my book.

    Check out this one:
    Amazon.com: OCZ Technology 120 GB Vertex 2 Series SATA II 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G: Electronics

    Alewillywonka, these laptops are not sata3 so either of those drives would be a waste IMO.
     
    arstron, Apr 19, 2011
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  5. Hrogi

    Hrogi Notebook Consultant

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    DO NOT CLICK ON THE REVIEWS>..alewillywonka
    It takes you to a BAD site.

    WARNING WARNING DO NOT CLICK>

    MOD PLEASE REMOVE HIS POST alewillywonka
     
    Hrogi, Apr 19, 2011
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  6. Venjirai

    Venjirai Newbie

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    Why should the Vertex SSD be more appropriate than one of the other two?
    With S-ATA 150 isn't this a waste money?
     
    Venjirai, Apr 19, 2011
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  7. ALLurGroceries

    ALLurGroceries  Vegan Vermin Super Moderator

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    I'm not quite sure what the problem is here...?
     
    ALLurGroceries, Apr 19, 2011
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  8. Nakano2k1

    Nakano2k1 Notebook Consultant

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    I wish I knew as well... :confused:
     
    Nakano2k1, Apr 19, 2011
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  9. ALLurGroceries

    ALLurGroceries  Vegan Vermin Super Moderator

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    I'm guessing Hrogi had a false positive on antivirus or something, maybe from an ad on storagereview or corsair's site. Move along... :p
     
    ALLurGroceries, Apr 19, 2011
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  10. arstron

    arstron Notebook Guru

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    Performance wise, you will not notice any diffrence in normal use. I have my two 60 gig vertex drives setup in raid 0 on my desktop, this new 120gig drive is starting windows and games every bit as fast as the raid setup. I just ran a benchmark with ATTO on my laptop, my highest read was 277883 and my highest write was 242928 so around 250mb/sec for each. Now my biggest reason for suggestion OCZ over Corsair or Crucial is I have had great experience with OCZ's customer service. They really support their SSD market and that is why I have bought 4 of their SSD's.
     
    arstron, Apr 19, 2011
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  11. Venjirai

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    Does the Asus G73JH-TZ091V laptop support Sata 3GB/s so those SSD would make more sense?
     
    Venjirai, Apr 19, 2011
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    <MarkS> Notebook Village Idiot

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    Yes, the G73JH has a SATA 2.0 (3 Gb/s) interface.

    What makes more sense is up to you...
     
    <MarkS>, Apr 19, 2011
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  13. Chastity

    Chastity Company Representative

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    Maybe he got a false positive on whatever he's using as a "reported bad site" protector.
     
    Chastity, Apr 19, 2011
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    polish_pat Notebook Consultant

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  15. alewillywonka

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    FAIL!!!!!!
     
    alewillywonka, Apr 24, 2011
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    frosty5689 Notebook Evangelist

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    Or he has some malware/spyware/adware that directed him to w.e site he's reporting about instead. :D
     
    frosty5689, Apr 24, 2011
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    I have just bought a G73JH-X3; it has 2 x 320gb 7200rpm Seagate HDD. I am planning to put them in raid 0.
    Do you think it makes sense to upgrade to SSD if the motherboard has only sata2? I mean price/performance.
    Do you think ssd manufacturers will drop down the price in the next year? :D
     
    alfaroller, Apr 25, 2011
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  18. Daverish

    Daverish Notebook Consultant

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    The HM55 chipset in these laptops don't support hardware level raid. Even if it did, you'd notice better gains off a good SSD - personally I like vertex2's and x25-m's

    ssd's been dropping a ton over the last 2 years. Still it won't be as fast as any of us will ever want

    By gains, I mean everyday use and performance in running and launching applications. Speedy startups where you feel like sleep isn't worth it. No you won't get FPS gains in games
     
    Daverish, Apr 25, 2011
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