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    Best SSD for the Asus G50vt-x1?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by thermodynamic, Apr 12, 2009.

  1. thermodynamic

    thermodynamic Notebook Enthusiast

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    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147056

    Samsung has a terrific SSD for laptops (1.8" profile) and looks like a good unit. Is it compatible with the Asus brand laptops (I didn't find anything substantial via google :( ) and if not, what SSD drives would you recommend for use?

    Thanks much!!
     
    thermodynamic, Apr 12, 2009
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  2. Jlbrightbill

    Jlbrightbill Notebook Deity

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    I'm a big proponent of OCZ's Vertex line, great performance. Make sure you have a drive jumper though to flash to the latest firmware.
     
    Jlbrightbill, Apr 12, 2009
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    mullenbooger Former New York Giant

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    if your laptop takes 2.5" drives you'll need to buy an adapter for the samsung ssd.
     
    mullenbooger, Apr 12, 2009
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  4. Luke1708

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    may be you could try intel ssd. These are pretty hot stuffs!!! But these are at 2.5".
     
    Luke1708, Apr 12, 2009
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    thebeephaha Notebook Guru

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    As seen in my thread http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=370946 two OCZ Solids cap the read speeds of the controller but the Vertex will give better writes.

    Ideally I think one could get a single Vertex for the OS and use a normal HDD for storage. Or if budget willing get two Vertex, but I don't think reads even in RAID0 would go much above 220.
     
    thebeephaha, Apr 13, 2009
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    Reaper05 Notebook Evangelist

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  7. David

    David NBR Random Reviewer NBR Reviewer

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    If you want the best SSD, your only choice are SLC SSDs such as the Intel X25-E as portlandisawesome suggested. SLCs have greater durability, endurance and read/write speeds compared to their MLC counterparts. Here's a list of the 2.5" SATA SLC SSDs currently selling on newegg:
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&N=2003240636 1749646482 1421330854&name=2.5"

    Super Talent has written a nice report regarding the differences between SLC Vs. MLC which might be worth reading for anyone planning on purchasing a SSD hard drive.

    http://www.supertalent.com/datasheets/SLC_vs_MLC whitepaper.pdf
     
    David, Apr 13, 2009
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  8. kubel

    kubel Notebook Evangelist

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    The Titan series by G.Skill offers competitive performance at a competitive price. You can laugh, but I have one in my Eee PC 900HA. I got 30% off so I'm not overly concerned about how wasteful it is putting such a nice SSD in such a lousy bottlenecking system :).

    I did a tiny review at the eeeuser.com forums:

    http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=61730
     
    kubel, Apr 14, 2009
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