HP dv6436nr and SSD?

I am thinking about picking up an OCZ Vertex 2 for my laptop, but I am concerned that this model will not support it.

I have read that this laptop can be very picky about what HDD/SSD is in it, but I have been unable to get a definite confirmation.

I did read that if it supports it I should be able to enable some sort of "enhanced sata" option in the bios. I checked and could find none.

I have the latest bios installed.

 

What you want to be concerned about is:

whether the chipset is SATA1 (150MB/s) or SATA2 (300MB/s).

whether the chipset operates in IDE or AHCI mode (AHCI much preferred).

and, whether you have a PM55 or HM55 chipset - which will limit your SSD's performance depending on how much you load your CPU's.

See:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...how-capped-ssd-performance-6.html#post6644275


So, you see... except for the above (and about another years worth of reading about these SSD's...), any HD or SSD you choose to put in your notebook will be compatible. You just may not get the full performance out of it is all.

But hopefully, you should get better performance than any mechanical HD except possibly the Momentus XT hybrid at this point in time.

Good luck.

 

That is the same as my previous notebook, and the interface was SATA 1.5Gb/s . I would guess that this would bottleneck a decent SSD?

 

In terms of sequential writes and reads with large files, yes, but in terms of what is normally considered daily use with regular office programs using mostly 4K reads/writes, then not at all.