My laptop started clicking!!!

[kishzilla]

TOO MUCH MOOLAH!!!!


lol.... plus only 64gb??? wow...


I've never had a drive go bad on me... sucked to experience that ... it was like getting a toe cut off... right before a toe championship (finals)

If you are storing stuff on your laptop to where 64 gigs is not enough, then you are distributing your stuff in the wrong places. You shouldn't use your main HD as a place to stash all your crap. If you have spare HD's laying around, put one in a cradle and use that to store all your music and crap that is probably flooding your Laptop currently. You wouldn't use your living room to store all your junk right?

There are a lot of pluses to a SSD. Your battery will last longer, the computer will run cooler, there are no noises, it's Way faster (latency in the 0.07ms compared to 7-9ms w/ HDD) and WAY higher transfer rates for reading (Up to 330 MB/s+) and writing files.

[kishzilla]

Yeah, but don't those have lifetime limitations as well? Such as a smaller amount of Read/Write cycles?

Not if you use TRIM :thumb:

[Luckyshot]

Yeah, but don't those have lifetime limitations as well? Such as a smaller amount of Read/Write cycles?

With trim support they last as long as typical hard drives. The boot up time is amazing. My windows 7 pc is about 13ish secs with an intel SSD. Disk space is the biggest issue, but I run two mirrored 750 gigabyte drives for all my data need. SSDs will also improve game loading time if you run the game on it. That just depends on the size of the game. They will go down in price but people are predicting probably another couple years before thats the case.

[12and4]

If you are storing stuff on your laptop to where 64 gigs is not enough, then you are distributing your stuff in the wrong places. You shouldn't use your main HD as a place to stash all your crap. If you have spare HD's laying around, put one in a cradle and use that to store all your music and crap that is probably flooding your Laptop currently. You wouldn't use your living room to store all your junk right?

There are a lot of pluses to a SSD. Your battery will last longer, the computer will run cooler, there are no noises, it's Way faster (latency in the 0.07ms compared to 7-9ms w/ HDD) and WAY higher transfer rates for reading (Up to 330 MB/s+) and writing files.

the stuff i have on this computer that are taking up space i need on hand at all times... its for a few websites i maintain.. so i can't really do that... i wish this computer had two hdd slots though

[Luckyshot]

the stuff i have on this computer that are taking up space i need on hand at all times... its for a few websites i maintain.. so i can't really do that... i wish this computer had two hdd slots though

Get a nas box that lets you mirror hard drives. You can buy 1tb on amazon for 60 bucks a piece.

[kishzilla]

the stuff i have on this computer that are taking up space i need on hand at all times... its for a few websites i maintain.. so i can't really do that... i wish this computer had two hdd slots though

Like I said, put one of those spares into a cradle and put it in your bag. It would be a little bigger than a checkbook and will serve to keep your laptop clear of extra baggage.