Will Samsung 840, 120GB SATA III SSD be compatible on the S3??? What are your thoughts &amp; suggestions??
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Im not sure on the specs. But i think you have to have a 7mm(height) big SSD 2.5". I just looked up my HDD and it is 7MM so make sure its not 9mm. (most are 9mm, but you need slimmer for acer 7mm)
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SATA3 drives are backwards compatible with SATA1. It's merely a bandwidth upgrade that you won't be able to take advantage of. So you should be alright with this drive though you might lose a bit of performance in the read speed in some instances.
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Works great as an SSD "dock" I highly recommend the Crucial M500 drive but should work with Samsung
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Any ssd should fin on the extra Sata 3 Bay, I'm sure the 840 from Samsung and the 530 from Intel fit for sure, just check is a fairly new ssd.
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Yes it will work. I am however not sure the SATA III will be the improvement in speed that you might be looking for that a SSD would offer.
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if you want tons of storage and ultimate reliability, use this Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE1T0BW, I just got it for a little over $500 on Amazon. if you dont want to spend that much money than I used WD Blue 1 TB Mobile Hard Drive: 2.5 Inch, 5400 RPM, SATA II, 8 MB Cache - WD10JPVT. Both seem to work fine.
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You have a more recent motherboard than I do by two years. Perhaps I was lucky on my P55 that the components and bus speed performed near the rated speed of the Samsung Pro 840 SSD. My P55 board worked. As I remember back the faster protocol had to be enabled that supports SATAIII speeds. I can only gasp as straws for your experience. Many SSDs are rated at the speed you are experiencing. It's not going to get any faster than the slowest component. Good luck!
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hello- http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/m.2-ngff-ssd-compatibility-list.html. if this does not provide the specific answer, it will point you to the right path.this supplier is super-accommodating (! ) hope this helps some ~
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Yes, and the speed won't suffer. Even SATA III interface is over twice the speed of most hard drives (not SSD).
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It should be, although I seem to remember it as formatted NTFS to start with. If your build supports standard SATA interface, you should not have any problems. It has been a very reliable drive for my Windows system. The only caveat is that an SSD does require periodic "garbage collection" by the operating system. You might want to check if your intended OS will support this. This would apply to any SSD that you may be considering.
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Steffan is correct. Look up overprovisioning in google. Sandisk and Intel does this for you while companies like Samsung expect you to just partition the drive smaller or use their tool to shrink the drive if you install it using the Max size. You need to over provision an ssd for it to work properly, but some companies want you to see that 256GB on the box and think "Well, that is bigger than 240GB, Ill get the bigger one"
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it depends on the model, i have the GS70 pro 024 and it only came with one 128GB SSD but i can upgrade adding 2 SDD to have 3 SSD
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yes its sata III compatible but it can only run at sata II speeds. I instaled a sata III ssd and my read speads are 260mbps but on sata III motherboard it can do about 550mbps, almost double. but I haven't seen a laptop that supports sata III yet, only desktops.
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Yes, I did put an SSD in and it works! I bought it in mid 2013 and prices were pretty steep then, so I bought a SanDisk 64 GB Solid State Drive with Low Power Consumption SDSSDP-064G-G25 (on Amazon). The issue is size, it should have the right dimensions and then it just slips right in and works.
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Shouldn't be an issue. Sata III is backwards compatible. If you're able to fit your data, this SSD will make your older notebook fly. A most-impressive upgrade!
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It's hard to say. While the drive is a standard 2.5" drive it comes with a 3.5" bracket. If the drive in you Mac is 2.5" and uses a SATA III interface I do not see a problem. Hardware such as a hard drive are pretty standard across system types. My final suggestion, to be sure, is contact Samsung support. I think it is well worth it as these drives are the best SSD's on the market.
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No my friend Samsung S3 has about 6 different variants and each model is molded diferently because the motherboards ar differennt