SSD drive on NP7358 stopped working, looking to replace

I bought an NP7358 from Xoticpc.com about a year and a half ago and have been very pleased with it. My buy thread is here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/undecided-between-np7338-and-np7358.752721/

Unfortunately the SSD drive stopped working so I need to replace it. The specs of my laptop are below:

- i7-4810MQ (2.5GHz - 3.5GHz, 6MB Intel® Smart Cache)
- NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 860M (2.0GB) GDDR5 PCI-Express DX11 w/ Optimus™ Technology
- 12GB DDR3 1600MHz [3x4GB] Dual Channel Memory
- 240GB Crucial M5 mSATA SSD - Preconfigured as an OS Drive ( Operating System – Drive C: )
- 1TB 7200RPM [SATA II - 3GB/s]
- 6X Blu-Ray Burner + 8X DVDRW/CDRW Super Multi Combo Drive (Sager)
- Sager - Intel® Dual Band AC 7260 802.11 A/AC/B/G/N 2.4/5.0GHz + Bluetooth™ 4.0
- ~Windows 8.1 - 64-Bit (64-Bit CD Included) + MS Office 2013 Trial

So I want to replace the SSD with a Seagate 1TB Laptop SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive) SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 2.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST1000LM014), see the link below:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...rue&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_4&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER


I don't know too much about these things. My question is will the Seagate drive I'm considering be compatible with my laptop? I don't know if it has to be a specific size to fit in the laptop.

Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated!

 

Well, I'm not sure how many 2.5 inch HDD slots the NP7358 has, but you are trying to replace an mSATA SSD with a 2.5 inch HDD which won't work - the sizes are different.

 

shouldnt be a problem, ur machine sports 2 ports for 2.5 inch drives

any 9.5 mm drive or 7 mm drive will fit, the SSHD uve sought out would fit that bill perfectly.

just wondering: why not go for another SSD instead?

 

I was told by a friend to go for a SSHD instead of an SSD because apparently if you have your OS on a SSD and everything else on the normal HD it makes booting up faster but everything else slower? I don't know too much about this stuff so don't know if that's true or not? Do you think it's better to just get another SSD to replace the one that stopped working?

As for the size, I was concerned as to whether the drive would physically fit into the laptop casing itself. I'm going to get Best Buy to do it for me but I want to make sure that the drive I'm looking at will fit and will work before I buy it.

 

sure, makes sense that u wanna check the physical size and connector first and as i said, that SSHD will fit into your machine nicely.

as for ssd performance: the only reason not to go the ssd route, but SSHD instead would be cost. if youre on a budget then SSHD drives are a good compromise of cost and performance. otherwise, by all means, for for an SSD recommendable drives with good prices are the samsung 850 evo / Crucial BX100 / MX200, for example.

 

I would not recommend getting a hybrid hard drive after you've had a full SSD. Hybrids were nice 2-3yrs back when SSD prices were 2-3x what they are now. They will help with commonly used program files but not over all performance. Overall performance would then go back to the 5400RPM performance.

A 250GB Samsung 850 Evo wont cost you too much more and will be a much better replacement.

 

Thanks guys. Good to hear from you again Hutsady. Would you guys recommend spending the extra money and going for a 500GB Evo or would that be overkill considering I have a 1TB HD already?

 

I have a 1TB SSD in my laptop and desktop with a 2TB HDD in my desktop and laptop as well. Far from overkill. At least, from me.

 

It really just depends on how many programs you want to put on there, and get the benefit from the increased read/write speeds. If you only have a couple few important programs, then you maybe could get by with another 240/256gb. But 500/512gb does give you more room to grow in to, too.

 

Always happy to help! As Pat mentioned it does depend on how many programs and games you plan on putting on there.

How was the 240 before it failed on you? Was it getting pretty full or were you not worried about capacity. You should base your choice on the answer to that.

 

If you want to upgrade, great - 480-512GB SSD. I wouldn't go under that size. But, that M500 should be under warranty. I'd look at getting a free replacement.

 

I have to agree with Hutsady - grab an SSD if you can. There was a thread in another forum on here about a month or two ago where somebody that used SSHDs a fair bit indicated that their performance wasn't really much better than a mechanical hard drive. In the case of an SSHD, you're really at the mercy of the vendor and have to hope they have a well optimized algorithm for storing the files. Given that SSHDs never really achieved much popularity, I certainly wouldn't be shocked if the algorithms lacked maturity or sophistication.

 

Part of the issue was the small space for caching they had available, making it larger took the price to a full blown ssd anyway.

SSDs dropped a bit too fast in price for them to ever get a decent niche.