Intel 730 not for laptop? Too much heat?

Hi everyone,

this is my first post in notebookreview forum hoorayyy!!!

I am thinking to upgrade my Samsung NP700Z5B-W01BU laptop with a nice SSD hard drive and my eyes are on the intel 730(480G) but I heard this device not good for laptop as power assumption and heating are not fit for laptops.

My situation is I always plugin the power adapter when I using the laptop, so it is pretty much a mobile desktop to me so battery life is no concern. I an only worry about overheeating or any other potential issues. So does anyone has any experience to put this nice device into a laptop?

Thanks

 

Welcome to the forum!

I'm not familiar with the laptop you own and hence can't speak on how warm it might or might not get with any given drive, but I have two Intel 730 drives in my ThinkPads and haven't noticed any heat-related issues whatsoever. In all honesty, I'd recommend this SSD to anyone looking for a consistent performer at an affordable price.

Obviously, YMMV.

 

We assume that the price is competitive in all parts of the world which may or may not be the case here. SSD will have better boot and performance but capacity price HDD still rules..so if your in need of space stay with HDD and wait til SSD of the same capacity is price/byte size as same as HDD.

 

From what I've heard, it usually runs hotter then other SSD's but the main problem is that it consumes more power which makes it problematic for battery life.. Since you don't have this constraint, you'll be fine.. I'd personally get a Sandisk Extreme Pro IMO over the Intel but it depends on what you need...

 

I'd also suggest a crucial M550, a Plextor M6P or a Samsung 840 Evo over the intel drives.

 

I wouldn't suggest those and especially the 840 Evo.. Its too derpy with the TLC memory.. The Crucial is ok and Plextor well I don't have an opinion of it...

I'd say even the Sandisk Extreme II is good if you can't afford the Extreme Pro..

 

Crucial M550 has been doing exceptionally well from all the reviews I've seen; it greatly surpasses the M500 predecessor. No long-life testing of it yet though. The MX100 is probably what you're thinking of avoiding.

My Plextor drive is fantastic and I would recommend the brand to anyone; sometimes I even feel as if it's faster than my 840 Pro. But even so, they're more expensive than the competition (because they get their memory from others; I think Samsung, and only benefit from firmware updates and the architecture of their drives) so they aren't always the best option for most.

The 840 Evos are pretty good and the Samsung drives all last a really really long time... most of their 250GB-type drives last over 1PB of writes (yes, petabyte) whereas the intel drives were one of the first to cap out in the testing =3.

Here's the info, and the 840 Evos are a bit better than regular 840s The SSD Endurance Experiment: Casualties on the way to a petabyte - The Tech Report - Page 1

That being said, you're probably not wrong by suggesting Sandisk and whatever.. I just haven't seen a lot of people touting them nor a lot of testing like this online for them. Not to say it doesn't exist; I just haven't seen it.

 

840 Evo's have massive performance issues and even Samsung's repair utility can't fix it so I'd stay away from them... Crucial Drives are ok and honestly don't know why your'e suggesting to stay away from the MX100.. Its seems ok from what I've seen.. M550 isn't bad or anything and neither is the MX100...

 

The Evos had a firmware update that fixed the performance issues as far as I know. I know a few people who did the update and it works perfectly again.

As for the MX100... it just bugs me actually. It's like... TOO cheap. I don't get it. Why is it so cheap and no other drives can be that cheap? Why don't people buy it into exhaustion? Anyway.

But yeah, the Evos are fixable. They admitted it was their fault with the firmware.

 

As to whether EVO's are fixable is still being debated.

See:
Samsung 840 EVO read speed drops on old-written data in the drive - Page 134


Firmware doesn't explain what the EVO's do, at least not fully and satisfactorily. (For example; even SSD's that had been stored for a year were affected; as were SSD's that had been SE'd too).


See:
Samsung 840 EVO read speed drops on old-written data in the drive


(Yeah; I've read the whole thread linked above since about middle of September).

 

Well that's interesting... I've not heard much about that. Most people report it fixed and done with.

 

Well, most people still say I'm a little crazy for calling Samsung SSD's 'slow' and 'stuttery'.

This EVO phenomenon should have been raised almost a year ago.

I did complain (on this forum) that the 1TB EVO I was using was saying WEEKS to transfer a few hundred GB's to a new install from my NAS units, but I could not take the time to investigate further.

What I did was simply repurpose the few EVO's I had bought for the job they are best at: low intensity workloads. Like typing a letter, creating an invoice or reading a few (hundred) forums when I have some down time throughout the day.

Samsung; all the promise with none of the balls to back up the claims (even with 840 Pro's) or the hyperbole of a 'fully vertically integrated ssd manufacturer'.

 

My vote goes for the MX100 for space or the M550 for performance. I'm not sold on TLC, go with a MLC drive.

 

Welp I can say I'm satisfied with my 840 Pro and how it moves data... but that's about it. I've not tried to copy hundreds of GBs of data from SSD to SSD because my only other SSD is 128GB.

 

People have varying needs and priorities, which is perfectly normal...but it's pretty funny how a question regarding a specific SSD - that not too many people here offered first-hand experience with - inevitably turns into a discussion about the current SSD market favourites one way or another...

 

Couldn't say it better.... MLC or SLC all the way.. TLC just looks like crap to me...