HP HDX16t SSD Hard Drive Upgrade Question...

Has anyone out here had any experience swapping their Seagate Momentus 7200rpm SATA hard drive out for the newer SSD drives?

I am considering an upgrade to the new Crucial RealSSD C300 drive and I have been wondering if the performance difference on this paltform is really worth the cost involved with this upgrade.

Currently, my system is as follows:

Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
Intel Core 2 Duo T9900 3.06Ghz. Processor
8.0gig. Memory
500gig. Seagate Momentus 7200rpm sata hard drive
Blu-Ray Burner
Intel WiFi
Bluetooth
1920x1080 High-Resolution Display
TV Tuner
etc...

Any comments would be greatly appreciated, but I am mainly concerned about anyones expereince within the HDX series or Pavilion dv series notebooks.

Thanks,

Jerry

 

I doubt there will be any problems with installing as long as you get it in there correctly. The main thing you should notice is the near instant access times, so everything will in general feel faster because it's loaded faster. You might want to just do a clean install instead of imaging your old HDD and sending the image to the SSD though.

The main thing about SSD's is the near-instant access time, I believe certain SSD's have faster sequential read/write speeds than HDD's but most people that get them if for the Access speed. And make sure you're getting a SSD you won't fill up to near its capacity (I think they shouldn't be more than 50-60% full or something like that otherwise issues start coming up like performance).

If you don't use the blu-ray burner much, look into getting a HDD caddy that'll fit in the DVD drive, that way you can keep the 500GB HDD for storage space.

 

That or a momentus XT (caching algorithme is a lot better than on the previous generations, according to reviews you just have to launch something twice even on separate runtimes and you'll already feel the improvement while on the older ones you have to use the same program three or four times to feel the SSD likeness kick in) if you wanna keep storage space.

 

Interesting, I have also been considering a the Seagate Momentus XT as well. Does anyone know how this plays with the HP ProtectSmart feature?

Are you or is anyone else using one of these drives that can provide there actually experience? I look at these benchmarks for this hard drive and the information seems conflicted depending on it's source.

Thanks,

Jerry

 

Theres reviews who bench only the first start of apps or boot = bad results.

Some other benches two or three times and the results are poping.
Even tomshardware noticed its mistake and made an update about that
Update: Everyday Performance : Momentus XT Review: Seagate's Marriage Of The HDD And Flash Memory

This anand test graph is interesting :
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-review-finally-a-good-hybrid-hdd