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    To switch my SSDs or not?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Akhe, Oct 13, 2011.

  1. Akhe

    Akhe Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, i have been currently running 2 Kingston Hyperx 120gb SSD in raid 0 in my m18x laptop, which works perfectly fine but im a little afraid of using up all the space. It has 223.6gb of space im already using 50gb through operating system, League of Legends and 3 games I have downloaded on Steam. I have alot more games I would prefer to install aswell. Had them raided for 2 weeks, no BSOD. I have a 750gb WD Scorpio black hdd just lying around after i bought the 2nd Kingston. Would i better off unraiding my SSD and having 2 120gb drives? my reasoning for doing it raid was so i could keep all my games together and loading them quickly or should i buy a Kingston Hyperx 240gb SSD($565) and use my 750gb HDD for storing excess stuff. I know alot of people dont like the sandforce controller owning ssd for such short period of time i havent had any issue but I can buy the Intel 510 250gb($639)/Crucial m4 256gb($460). The price of the Intel puts me off completely especially when it barely beats out the Crucial in alot of benchmark tests, so that leaves it mainly to the Crucial M4 against the Kingston Hyperx. Kingston kills it in benchmarks but all im going to use it for is installing and playing games where I see loading windows games they are on par. I think that about covers it thank you for your patience and for reading through all of this.

    kind regards Euan
     
    Akhe, Oct 13, 2011
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  2. maximinimaus

    maximinimaus Notebook Evangelist

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    Keep the 2 Kingstons and fill them up. You're using only about 25 % of them. I would fill them up to at least 80 % or even 95 %. As you're running them in RAID, TRIM doesn't kick in. If you experience a performance decrease, do a Secure Erase to restore the performance.
     
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  3. SlickDude80

    SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet

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    The most economical way to go is to get a large external drive like 2 or 3 terabyte external for all your storage needs. I wouldn't upgrade your hyperx drives quite yet, unless you have cash to burn
     
    SlickDude80, Oct 14, 2011
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    kent1146 Notebook Prophet

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    This is what I would do:

    You have 240GB of capacity today. Your proposal is to basically spend a bit of money, and upgrade to 1TB (split as 240GB / 750GB) of total storage capacity on your laptop. Is it worth the money?

    If you think that you are going to use all 240GB within 1 year, then sell your 2x Kingston 120GB SSDs for a single 240GB SSD. The resale value of your Kingston SSDs is only going to go down.

    If you think that 240GB of storage capacity is going to last you for the next 1+ years, then just keep them. You can suppliment your storage needs with an external USB hard drive for bulk storage of content that doesn't depend on speed (e.g. movies, music, etc).
     
    kent1146, Oct 14, 2011
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