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    M1530 Solid State Drive Brand

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Nintendogs, Dec 7, 2008.

  1. Nintendogs

    Nintendogs Notebook Geek

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    Does anybody know what brand the 128GB solid state drive is that comes with the XPS M1530?
     
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    samsung one, although it's not that fast
     
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    how does the speed/quality compare to the 7200 rpm hard drive?
     
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    when I had it, it's definitely faster than a 7200rpm drive, i think with a 6-cell, my battery life was pushing 2.5 hrs to 3 hrs so there's that. it's definitely worth the 350 dollar upgrade for sure. boot times are signiifcantly shorter. However, being MLC, i had a lot of slowdowns when multi-tasking. Not the same as the other crappier controllers where there are freezes, this one just slows down significantly. Other issues I had with it was that I felt that when I was gaming, I couldn't do something else in the background like anti-virusing and stuff.

    Other than that, there are better MLC drives coming out so if you can wait ya, but 350 is a steal for a decent batterylife performance boost
     
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    Thank everyone. Also does anybody know how much the drive would be worth if I were to sell it?
     
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    i think it fetches at least 500 bucks on ebay right now.

    although you know with cashback at 8% these days, who knows. ebay is as much luck as anything
     
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