Opinions for Hard Drive Upgrade

Hey guys,

I got an Asus R1F and upgraded it from Vista to XP. While the performance is an order of magnitude greater, I'm considering a faster harddrive replacement. The two choices I was thinking of is a 7200 RPM drive or a Solid State. Space wise, it doesn't matter. I barely crack 30-40Gb on my laptops, and I'm going under the assumption that the more memory there is, the longer it takes to find what you want (the 120 Gb on my laptop now is not bad, but full harddisk operations take forever). Although it's easy to find 7200 RPM drives out there, I can't seem to find notable retailers with a decent selection of SSD. Reading the other SSD thread, it seems the Sandisk version is the best, but I can't find a site that sells it (Sandisk just seems to have a page directed at manufacturers/business). SSD seems to be a better choice, power-requirement wise. Something I really need to improve as the R1F likes to eat power.

Any suggestions? Links?

 

Vista to XP = upgrade? i always thought upgrading meant putting the newest stuff hehe

hmm prices for SSD's are quite high. do you think its worth spending all that money on something that although could save you some power, but really isnt value for money. The newer Seagate drives apparently only use as much power as 5400rpm drives so theyre not too bad.

the more memory the longer it takes to find? hmm by memory i assume you mean hard disk space? not necessarily as you can partition your drive into smaller portions and with regular defragging, you could see some good improvements.

Also they are improving SSDs as we speak so buying one now in its infant stages at such high prices may lead you to regret it when faster and cheaper drives emerge.

It's your choice really, i think only thing ppl can do is agree or disagree on this one, but as for retailers, i think sandisk only released them to OEM partners so it probably wont be in most online retail stores soon

 

Vista is the trashiest OS I've ever seen. I got the newest R1F model with the intention of "upgrading" it. I allowed "Pissta" to run ten minutes before I got out my nuke. I'd pay 200-300 for a modern 32Gb SSD but looking at several (non-major retailer) sites, it seems the 32Gb 2.5" SSDs are in the 500-1000 range. I have more faith in Sandisk through my experience with regular flash cards, it's unfortunate that they aren't selling their SSDs to the general public.

The partition idea might be a good (and significantly cheaper) move though...

 

heh with all the issues ppl have here i would agree about the vista part until today. bought myself a creative zen V, installed and XP gave me an error and what's worse is there is no solution! spent hours trying to sort this out to no avail. tried it in vista, works like a charm, also tried a sandisk player i have and same happened in XP, no probs in Vista. at times XP just makes ya wanna pull ur hair out!

yup the prices are still quite high for those kinda drives, they'll get cheaper but it'll just be a waste of money buying one now.

 

I've never had a problem with connecting mp3 players. Mind you, I don't bother with the vendor drivers, iCrap/vendor programs. etc. Just connect it like a USB flash drive. Although, I don't exactly PAY for music. *cough*

 

yeah unfortunately with these ones the driver is microsoft's, creative and sandisk dont have ones for those players. my archos connects like a usb drive and so its fine but these are just annoying the hell outta me, right now it works, if i unplug and plug it in again it wont. only works 1/10 times!

and yeah i do pay for music, but not always *cough* *cough*

 

Isn't newegg selling a samsung SSD for over two months now?