SSD for a Lappy?

[gampamu]

The HD on my Dell Inspiron 1545 died. I am entertaining the thought of replacing it with an SSD. Any thoughts?

[Agent-A01]

whats your budget?

[gampamu]

$100-200.

[Agent-A01]

Samsung 830 128GB $175 has excellent all around performance and as far as i know, uses the least amount of power of any ssd out there.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...scrollFullInfo

[gampamu]

What level of performance increase should I expect over a HDD in an older lappy with SATA II?

[Agent-A01]

Huge difference. apps will load in a fraction of the time. booting into windows should take like 10 seconds.

[gampamu]

Appreciate the info.

[dcx_badass]

Got an SSD for my desktop, I'd not tried it out but decided to in my dad's 'aging' C2D laptop, and he didn't really know about them. Anyway long story short is the difference was mind blowing and he ordered one within hours, still running it now (6 months on) and couldn't be with out it.

Boot time went from 2mins 15 down to about 50 seconds and everything just opens straight away, no delay. I mean for raw performance sure it made no improvement but for daily use it's night and day.

We both run a Kingston V+100 96GB which at the time was way cheaper than anything else (£80 for 96GB). I run a server and he runs a NAS which is why 96GB is fine for us.

I know it's not the fastest SSD by a long way, but compared to a HDD the difference is incredible and as it's just a laptop anyway (well mines in my desktop), it makes little difference.

[Chillin]

Originally Posted by dcx_badass

Got an SSD for my desktop, I'd not tried it out but decided to in my dad's 'aging' C2D laptop, and he didn't really know about them. Anyway long story short is the difference was mind blowing and he ordered one within hours, still running it now (6 months on) and couldn't be with out it.

Boot time went from 2mins 15 down to about 50 seconds and everything just opens straight away, no delay. I mean for raw performance sure it made no improvement but for daily use it's night and day.

We both run a Kingston V+100 96GB which at the time was way cheaper than anything else (£80 for 96GB). I run a server and he runs a NAS which is why 96GB is fine for us.

I know it's not the fastest SSD by a long way, but compared to a HDD the difference is incredible and as it's just a laptop anyway (well mines in my desktop), it makes little difference.

Yup, gave one to my brother in law and it works great.

For a laptop you probably don't need a top of the line SSD (unless your laptop is crazily outfitted and speedy), just get a cheap SSD with a lot of space.

[gampamu]

Is this Mushkin any good? Good price.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820226236

[clawhamer]

The Mushkin Chronos Deluxe is very good, and even better at that price.


http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...review-13.html


Last weekend I dropped a Corsair F3 120 into my HP DV5-1007 C2D, not the fastest SSD by an means but the difference was mind blowing coming from the 5400rpm 250gb Toshiba HDD.


As with my desktop, I'll never run a laptop without an SSD. SSDs are the perfect solution for laptops.

[gampamu]

Thanks a bunch for the input folks. Just ordered the Mushkin Chronos Deluxe

[warrior]

I have 2 of the Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 120Gig SSD's in my Dell 1747 Studio Laptop....They work great... Also Mushkin has great customer support, I had one of the SSD drives go bad after 10 months, they Emailed me a RMA and had a replacement in hand to me within 5 days....

Specs Dell Studio 1747
Intel i7 720QM
8Gig DDR3
2-Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 120Gig SSD
4650 1Gig Video
8x DVD

[anticupidon]

tried a 64 GB Kingston SSD in a Core2Duo lappy...just for fun.
the laptop was as fast as a modern one.i3/i5

[gampamu]

The Mushkin arrived today. I put it in and installed Windows. Simply amazing! 20s boot to desktop in my aging C2D T6400 based Dell Inspiron 1545