$70 Kingston SSD 64GB 2.5" w/rebate at Amazon

If you have a crappy laptop, this is the perfect upgrade.

 

Only perfect if you can live with such a small amount of space.

My fresh install takes up like 50GB with just Adobe Sutie & Starcraft II

If you do not think this is enough space, that means its probably not so better off saving for a larger capacity.

 

As long as you can live with the space limitation, $1 gig should replace any mechanical drives.

 

Perfect netbook SSD. Power consumption is reasonable on the V100 and much faster than any HDD. Space is always an issue, but for a non-gaming laptop, this should be adequate for most people unless you want to carry hundreds of GB of music, movies, photos with you.

 

That's still a little over an order of magnitude more expensive than a mechanical drive per space. That certainly isn't good enough to replace "any mechanical drive" on the merit of its cost.

 

Diamond-Water Paradox.

 

Well, the speed is a lot faster. They both have utility, it depends on what you need it for. I'm just saying this certainly isn't for everyone just because it's $1/GB. Note that $1/GB is still massively expensive compared to mechanical hard drive prices.

SSD will need to approach traditional hard drive cost before you can make a blanket statement like that.

 

46GB used on a non gaming road warrior that has a clean install of windows 7, so 64GB would not suffice.

 

I was using a 32GB SSD on my netbook and it was fine. ~ 16GB for Windows and apps, and room for storage. Granted I didn't store much on it because, well, it's a netbook. Obviously depends on your usage.

 

Or don't upgrade. I really don't care.

 

Nice deal. Nearly $1 per GB. Decent SSD too.

 

:laugh:

It's a nice find, just not enough for me sugarkang!

 

Looks like Amazon is out of stock for now, is saying usually ships in 1 - 3 weeks!

If you want the same but with an external enclosure included to put the old laptop hard-drive in Newegg have that for $79.99 after rebate. I decided to go for that as would have to buy an enclosure separately, and I think Acronis cloning software is included from the customer reviews.

Newegg.com - Kingston SSDNow V100 Series SV100S2N/64GZ 2.5" 64GB SATA II Internal / External Solid State Drive (SSD)

 

Same drive as the SSD supplied with the Qosmio q898

 

Funny, thats exactly what I used my netbook for was a portalble media player so it had hundreds of GB of music & movies as well as my entire 8bit emulator collection

 

Word of caution: the Kingson V100 is a terrible SSD for laptops, since it uses up to a massive 6.4 watts of power (compared to ~2 watts for regular hard drives and most other SSDs).

source: Kingston Technology Company - Solid State Drives - SSDNow V100

 

Manufacturer specs are usually inaccurate. I know the V-series (SNV425) has horrible power consumption but V100 was supposed to be better. But definitely something to consider.

 

I was worried about the massive 6.4watt quoted so checked out for a real world test (link below). Going by the testing in the link below it isn't as bad as manufacturer quoted... read average 2.31 watts, write 3.24 watts. idle ave 1 watt.

Picked one of these up myself, but might have shelled out a bit more for a cooler and lower consumption one if I'd noticed that so cheers for pointing it out! Temp is a bit of a pain too, 38C under load compared with 28C for OCZ Vertex 2.

OCZ Vertex 2 E 120GB 2.5 Inch / 1.23, Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5 Inch / 0002, Kingston SSDNow V 100 64GB 2.5 Inch / D100811a - SSD Comparison - SSD Reviews, Data Sheets and Comparison - ssdreview.com