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    SSD: Best Drives & Prices

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by smcgil9899, Feb 8, 2010.

  1. smcgil9899

    smcgil9899 Notebook Evangelist

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    I just got a Hp Envy 15 and would like to upgrade to an SSD drive. Can anyone recommend some good quality and low price SSD drives. Also, what stores have the best deals and what are some of the things I need to be looking for?
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    smcgil9899, Feb 8, 2010
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Anything Intel or with an Indilinx controller should be a good drive. You'd have to do some research. As for price, your sweet spot will be around 60-120GB drives, depending on your budget. Anything bigger has a major premium, anything smaller will be a little too small to really fit Windows on it and still some applications. Remember that you're going to lose a ton of storage space as compared to your 500GB, so I'd recommend you get this external drive enclosure so you can still have SATA transfer to your current 500GB drive as a data drive, just in the external enclosure.
     
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  3. KimoT

    KimoT Are we not men?

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    I have a 64GB...that's a good size for Windows 7 and documents, but I have a second internal drive for music and images. I also don't have many games installed. Mine is a Supertalent that uses the Samsung controller. It's been good to me so far (about 8 months old). Look at Newegg for prices and reviews, but check here as well for more reviews.
     
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  4. sean473

    sean473 Notebook Prophet

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    Intel G2 SSD is a great SSD... has TRIM too... i would get the 80GB version at least... and the 160GB at most...
     
    sean473, Feb 8, 2010
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  5. smcgil9899

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    thanks everyone for the comments
     
    smcgil9899, Feb 8, 2010
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