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    I hope i made the right choice

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by takovr, Mar 3, 2010.

  1. takovr

    takovr Notebook Consultant

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    takovr, Mar 3, 2010
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    That's a great ssd. I wanted to pick one up but i'm going to wait for a price drop. The 80 gb model just went from $280 to $220, so hopefully this will drop in the next month or so.
     
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    Can't go wrong with the G2. I'm thinking about picking up a 30gb vertex just to see what all the hype is about :D
     
    tinyEEEpc, Mar 4, 2010
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  4. Chango99

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    I just received the 80GB version and went through all the set up... I have to say that I'm not finding it quite impressive, even though my boot up time went from 73 seconds on my 250GB 5400 RPM HDD Seagate to 27 seconds. I just have to say i'm not really noticing the speed as much as everyone else suggests. :|
     
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  5. EntityX

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    Did you do a clean install? Also, what were your expectations? after all you almost cut your boot time by 2/3.
     
    EntityX, Mar 4, 2010
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    Ofc I did a clean install, in fact my first install something wrong happened with lenovo system update so i reinstalled windows.

    Anyway, I do notice it's faster somewhat but that's me thinking about it. There isn't really something noticeable that makes me say wow! I guess that's just because of what I use it for. I stated in the the SSD thread that mozilla still takes a few seconds because of it's own addons that it has to run through. With games, I expect fast loads but it's unimportant as I have to wait for other players to load the map too. I don't know what I'm expecting as my initial HDD wasn't so unbearingly slow either, in fact it's quite comparable at least when it has it in it's cache.
     
    Chango99, Mar 4, 2010
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  7. davepermen

    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    i replied to your post in the ssd thread before. but just think about it: you have nearly 200% INCREASE in performance thanks to the ssd, based on the numbers you give. if that's nothing, then, well.. dunno how much other tech gives one 200% increases :) the car industry would love such tech to increase their efficiency. solar would love it, too :) etc.
     
    davepermen, Mar 4, 2010
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    enable ACHI or whatever in BIOS... that should speed up ur SSD a little... Also install the latest firmware from intel... that should help in increasing the speed... also install the intel rapid storage drivers...
     
    sean473, Mar 4, 2010
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