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    SSD in a Dell studio 15

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Karnius, Aug 31, 2009.

  1. Karnius

    Karnius Notebook Enthusiast

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    Would it be possible to buy a dell studio and upgrade the HD to an ssd drive afterward?

    Would this be easy to do?

    This is the oinly reason stopping of buying one currently.


    Thank you!
     
    Karnius, Aug 31, 2009
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    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yes, it would be as easy as upgrading any other HDD.
     
    sgogeta4, Aug 31, 2009
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    Copy this. That is the easiest upgrade possible :)
     
    tuηay, Aug 31, 2009
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  4. Karnius

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    OK nice,

    thank you for the fast response!

    I am not really a hard drive junkie, but I heard that sometimes the system is bottlenecking the speed of the ssd?

    And I was looking at the possible SSD in newegg, I have 2 in mind, however the read access is really different, in this example, performance wise, would the intel would really read 1/3 faster?

    OCZ Solid Series OCZSSD2-1SLD120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II - Retail

    * Sequential Access - Read: 155 MB/sec
    * Sequential Access - Write: 90 MB/sec

    Intel X25-M SSDSA2MH080G1 80GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD) - OEM

    * Sequential Access - Read: Up to 250MB/s
    * Sequential Access - Write: Up to 70MB/s
     
    Karnius, Aug 31, 2009
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    I have no idea about those I bought OCZ Vertez 120GB SSD 64MB Cache Read: 200MB/Sec Write: 160MB/Sec
     
    tuηay, Aug 31, 2009
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    Don't get the OCZ Solid. The Intel is far superior to the Jmicron piece of cr*p. Your notebook should be fine, some older ones were capped at SATA/150 speeds.
     
    sgogeta4, Aug 31, 2009
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