dell Xps hdd replacement.

Would this Amazon.com: Seagate 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6Gbps 64MB Cache 2.5-Inch ST1000LM014: Computers & Accessories Fit in my 3 year old dell dps? orignally it had a 750 gig 7200 rpm drive. and would this one be faster?

 

what model XPS? i'm going to preliminary say yes, that would work, and would be faster than a 7200 rpm drive. you probably would not be able to take full advantage of the seagate's SATA III (6Gb/s) transfer rate, but performance gains may still be noticeable due to the hybrid caching.

 

Assuming it's a laptop made within the last 6-7 years, yes it will work. If you are referring to the SSD caching, only bootup would be noticeably faster, but data transfer rates will not be much better (more GB/TB drives are more dense, and thus theoretically can have a slightly higher transfer rate). Only a true SSD drive would be significantly faster in terms of data transfer rates, big files or small.

 

i'm assuming you're replying to my post pre-significant revision upon realizing OP's asking about a hybrid drive and not an SSD. and yes, i was referring to caching -- bootup and other typical performance gained from caching (e.g. starting commonly used programs/applications).

 

well the speed boost is not a necessity was just wondering. the hdd in my xps died and I am replacing it and I figured I might look at seeing if I can find somethign faster. Any thoughts on the smaller 7200 rps seagate hybred drives?

 

pretty sure it is the 2011 model 2010 at the earliest.

 

how much storage do you actually require? if you're prepared to part with $100, you're not that far off a 240GB SSD (and could afford a 120/128GB SSD). put an SSD in your XPS and that "2011 model 2010 at the earliest" will feel like a brand new machine. seriously. samsung and intel make some of the most reliable and fastest drives (in that order), followed by everybody else. this kingston 240GB SSD will be markedly faster than any HDD, hybrid or not, and can also be used in your next machine when you replace the XPS.

 

well I am just replacing the hard drive and letting my girlfriend use it. So all she really needs space wise is enough room for a few hundred gigs of pictures, her OS, and mabey the simms (if i can convince her to put it on her laptop after playing it on mine). So I can't afford a big enough ssd for that but was just wondering what the most speed hdd wise I could get out of 100 bucks and that one I linked seemed the best for speed/space, but I was wondering if the older version (the 320 gig, but 7200 rps version) would be any faster. All she really does is play games on facebook, and some web surfing.

 

I might have to look into seeing if that kingston will be big enough for her (she does have a back up drive but we want to have all her pictures backed up so would need enough space to get all of them on the laptop. But she does shoot jpeg not raw so her stuff might fit on there.

 

any thoughts between kingston and Crucial? both around the same price. I was just wondering if any of you have any preference?