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    Best sub-$125 SSD for m17xR3?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ECKS, Apr 28, 2011.

  1. ECKS

    ECKS Notebook Prophet

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    Hey all,

    Been thinking about upgrading to a SSD lately, since having a regular HDD made me think that year 2011 technology wasnt much of an improvement over my dinodesktop and dinolaptop, due to the slow windows bootup times...

    Any good SSDs out there that are sub-$125 and can take advantage of the SATA III (aka 3.0 or SATA 6gb/s according to wikipedia) capability of the m17xR3?

    Thank you!
     
    ECKS, Apr 28, 2011
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  2. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    $125 you're looking at a 60-64GB SSD especially if SATA III. That should be plenty for Windows and apps, but not much room left for a whole lot more.

    To be honest, most of the transfers that take advantage of the 6Gbps speed are sequential data reads and writes, and for an OS drive primarily you'll be using smaller data chunks, and 4k read/write performance is probably more important so any SATA II drive would be fine too.

    Corsair C300 64GB, Samsung 470 64GB, Kingston SSDNow V+ 64GB, OCZ Vertex 2 60GB, Corsair Force 60GB ...

    Also see this thread:

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/sol...ge/573107-best-64-gb-ssd-under-150-x120e.html
     
    HTWingNut, Apr 28, 2011
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  3. Phil

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    Phil, Apr 28, 2011
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