How is the whole "SSD Life Span" quality for this ssd?This will be my first ssd, and I'm curious about the do's and dont's
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I have had one SSD in a Dell for over 1 year and it seems to be performing fine as far a boo tup and shutdown speeds are concerned.
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Depends on how it's used. SSDs wear out based on the number of reads and writes. Minimum for a typical user is 3 years.
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Hey, more RAM, better performance; faster CPU, better performance.The SSD is the best boot speed upgrade. Incredible!Put your operating system on it for a new experience.No moving parts. Maybe approaches light speed. <Grins>Best wishes.
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I have had this machine for about three months and so far I love it. The SSD is composed of 3 drives at Raid 0 total size when combined is 384 GB. Windows 8 is installed on the SSD as are all Apps and programs, the 1 TB drive comes named "Data", the SSD is named "OS". It is lightning quick and is the fastest booting laptop I have ever owned or seen. I have a Dell 30" ultra sharp hooked up via the Display Port and a Lacie 321 via the VGA so have quite a setup. I use it for Visual Effects (Nuke, Combustion, Moca, Photoshop) but have not used it for gaming at all so can't comment on that aspect but for VFX it kicks butt. I have had this machine for about three months and so far I love it. The SSD is composed of 3 drives at Raid 0 total size when combined is 384 GB. Windows 8 is installed on the SSD as are all Apps and programs, the 1 TB drive comes named "Data", the SSD is named "OS". It is lightning quick and is the fastest booting laptop I have ever owned or seen. I have a Dell 30" ultra sharp hooked up via the Display Port and a Lacie 321 via the VGA so have quite a setup. I use it for Visual Effects (Nuke, Combustion, Moca, Photoshop) but have not used it for gaming at all so... » Read More I have had this machine for about three months and so far I love it. The SSD is composed of 3 drives at Raid 0 total size when combined is 384 GB. Windows 8 is installed on the SSD as are all Apps and programs, the 1 TB drive comes named "Data", the SSD is named "OS". It is lightning quick and is the fastest booting laptop I have ever owned or seen. I have a Dell 30" ultra sharp hooked up via the Display Port and a Lacie 321 via the VGA so have quite a setup. I use it for Visual Effects (Nuke, Combustion, Moca, Photoshop) but have not used it for gaming at all so can't comment on that aspect but for VFX it kicks butt. « Show Less
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First of all this is an EXCELLENT SSD. The other SSD I had was a OCZ and it was not even close to this one. I do a lot of picture editing which I think this SSD drive is good for that. Right now I have 2,200 pictures on the drive plus all my programs and I still have 90GB left. I think you could get by with the 128GB but would regret it later. I would suggest the 256gb. Speed difference is the first thing you will notice! My laptop boots up in about 10-12 seconds. I think you have make an excellent choice
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The lasted firmware v1.5 was pre-installed! But you don't mind if you install new OS. If using this SSD for Macbook, you may be need download TRIM Enable software to turn on TRIM function.Good luck for all!
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I don't think I use it any more. It has been awhile, but I recall having problems with it...but I can't be sure.Truth is you will see no real ("butt dyno in car-nut speak<G>) difference between the different specs in real world experience, so it is not worth pursuing IMHO.If on a system drive, go with an SSd -- even w/Sata2 the difference will wow you. 120GB is plenty big enough unless you had hundreds of application, then 240. $150 or less. Keep data off the boot drive.
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I agree with Eric. I always thought the SSD was just there as a disk cache and that appears to be the way it is treated. It works and it is fast. Take a look in Control Panel at "System" and then "Device Manager" and then "Disk Drives" and you will see the SSD listed separately from the hard disk drive. (I'm running Win 8.1)
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Yesthose are all pretty universal these days so by all means feel free to upgrade to SSD :)Enjoy :)
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Thanks..! That makes sense...And thanks for the tip on the 'egg-selent' SSD drive! -- got it...
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I would use nothing BUT these drives in anything I built or upgraded. They're a bit pricier, and no one ever thinks about it, but the warranty on THESE hard drives, the WD Black series, is a full 5Y. VERY few other mfrs even offer a 5y warranty. And WD drives earn that warranty reputation, I haven't had a WD drive fail, EVER. In each case -- over a dozen -- they've become useless through increasing capacity, never mechanical/electronic failure. That is, I probably have an 80gig WD drive that's still functioning. It's just not worth plugging in and taking up a SATA channel when I can get that capacity on a freaking flash drive nowadays... Yes, they're that good. You can "save money" by buying something cheaper. But you'll pay in the long run with headaches from lost data, or time spent rebuilding your windows/software/os and tweaking it back to the way you had it. The HD is the soul of your machine. Everything else fails, you can practically swap a part back in and you're up and running. But the HD fails and you've got a multiday to longer term headache to get things back to "normal". And, for general purposes, they're among the best drives in performance terms, too. Tom's Hardware may rate something else marginally faster, but not by much. And not by enough to drag you away from WD Black. As the old saw goes, once you go Black, you'll never go back. :-D
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Ok so there's a few things you need to understand in relation to comparing speeds. First there's no standard read write speeds for hdds my 7200 3tb drive ranges from 72 to 150 MB/s Next plastered drives are hard to compare directly with solid state. Platter drives read faster on the inner tracks compared to the litter tracks. There's also spin - up and spin down time for a platter drive. Now this ssd WILL max out your 3gbs sata2 at about 300 to 380MB/s Of course you look and see oh that's only double. True long read will be about double speed. However, it's those short access small files that'll benefit the most. Ssds have no platter. So no spin speed. They just send as much as the device / interface can handle. They also don't "seek" for data so there's no time loss there. In random reads my ssd is roughly 60x faster over all. But if I'm moving a TB of movies or whatnot. It's not AS remarkably fast but still a 100% better experience.
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OK, can we get some input from the sellers? Someone say's it's correct and someone says it's not... If the 14" really does have amd graphics I will be purchasing this for sure. Also, can someone tell me what ssd card it has (as in what company)?
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Just to throw in my 2 cents here, the Disk Utility reformat mentioned above in Andrew's post is spot-on. The drive so far as been great to use. However, I'm running Mac 10.5.6 and it was immediately recognized when I first plugged it in: it mounted and Time Machine asked if I wanted to use it for backups... I did the reformatting anyway as the apps on board are no use to a Mac owner. BTW, the $99 price was unbelievable! Fingers crossed on reliability, Yikesboy
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I agree with what was said already, but also want to point out that you should separate data drives from the OS drive. This is a good drive to put lots of data on, an SSD that is much smaller is ideal to put most programs and the operatingsystem on. SSD's are lightening fast and not very expensive, while this drive is fast for rotating storage, but better to minimize accesses on larger drives so they last longer, and take advantage of their massive storage capability -- evenwith an NAS setup. IMHO.
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Newegg says 3 years parts/labor. After searching for an hour I couldn't find this on Seagate's website. You'd think they'd be bragging about it on billboards since practically everyone else is down to 1 year (and wouldn't surprise me if they all got rid of a warranty altogether and made people buy at their own wallet's peril).
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I tried a hybrid drive and it gave me similar performance to a SSD, 10 to 25% in initial load, no diference in between game load time and not much difference in start time. Basically not really worth it. The difference is like 36 sec vs 40 or 55 vs 102 sec.