I have a HP Pavilion with a 1TB hard drive. I onlly use 120 to 130 GB. Can I replace it with the 500 GB SSD PRO? Or do I need to go with a 1TB SSS?
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Yes, of course. I think 512G SSD is enough for you. But if ur budget is generous, 1TB is better. BTW, Samsung 840EVO is TLC, and 840/850PRO is MLC. MLC has longer life (3000+ write circles) and TLC has only 1000+ write circles. MLC always has 128/256/512/1024G, TLC always has 120/240/500/1T because it has reserved space.If you choose MLC SSD, 512/1024G are OK.If you want to buy TLC SSD, choose a bigger one.
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If the reason you are making the change from the 1TB drive is to go to solid state, you should have no problem making the change to the 500 GB SSD. I bought the 500 SSD to hold only my operating system and the files that go with the default C drive. All programs and other files go to a different drive or drives. Hope this helps.
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You can use any size, but some space will be reserved for system stuf and your os, so for examle if you install w7 on 128gb ssd after all updates you will have about 100gb free or less depending what programa you installed. Ad if you enable Ower-provisioning that would cast you again 10% of disk size.
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If you do not expect to grow beyond 130gb why not the 256gb 840/850pro. You can always go down if you aren't utilizing the full drive just so you don't drop too low where the disc is almost immediately full or you leave yourself with no room for growth.
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I took a look at the Samsung site and it is touting MLC (V-NAND) as having higher endurance (MTBF), but that doesn't jive with some papers like this :http://www.oempcworld.com/support/SLC_vs_MLC.htmMLC definitely gives you higher densities, but I'm still not sure which disks are more reliable.
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Yes, of course. I think 512G SSD is enough for you. But if ur budget is generous, 1TB is better. BTW, Samsung 840EVO is TLC, and 840/850PRO is MLC. MLC has longer life (3000+ write circles) and TLC has only 1000+ write circles. MLC always has 128/256/512/1024G, TLC always has 120/240/500/1T because it has reserved space. If you choose MLC SSD, 512/1024G are OK. If you want to buy TLC SSD, choose a bigger one.
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I've been using 120gb with another 120gb as extra storage. I therefore think 500gb is ample, especially if you can always get external storage later for backup. I run windows8.1.
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Would this be the Apache pro? You should check your specs in the manual for correct replacement. There are some differences in HDD's be it a 2.5 or a 3.5 Hard Drives (HDD) can be in a "slim" form or even in a metric size. Any way, best solution would be to pull the Hard Drive all ready installed and match the specs found on its label, or check the manual. Hope this helps. G/L
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This laptop use a 2.5 inch ssd drive. So you can install 80, 120, 240GB... Have a nice day.
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I'm pretty sure that you can replace the 128GB SSD with a larger MSATA SSD. I have not done it myself, but I opened up the laptop and saw the MSATA that's in there. I didn't see any place to put an additional internal drive.
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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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Hello. Ive purchased and currently own this product. This computer has SSD of 256GB and you can use slightly less than that. (The model that is described here) Thank you and let me know if you have any question!
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Yes you can put in a larger SSD hard drive. I was looking at one that is 32GB. Forgot the vendor name though. I think it was something patriotic in the name. Maybe Patriot?
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If your laptop originally has a SATA drive, you most likely can replace it with whatever size you desire as long as a replacement drive is SATA as well. Just be careful in the disassembly of the laptop to mind what goes where. and in what order. I've replaced 80 Gig drives with 1 Tb drives and they keep right on going. Hope this helps!
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This model has a 1TB 5400RPM HDD, but also has a free hard drive bay. The first thing I did was buy a 500GB Samsung 840 SDD to boost system performance. I reinstalled windows on the new SSD and only use the 1 TB drive for movies, music, and other media.
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i looked at your laptop detailed specs. and i bought this drive for an hp laptop similar to yours, and here is the tech specs of my laptop: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01896913 comparing it with yours, i think they are the same. i replaced this sdd drive with my sata drive and it fit perfectly. usually, if your drive is sata, then this one will work fine with you. as for the 9.5 mm and 7mm, i think there is a special case that you put the hard drive in it and then use screws to plug this case to the laptop itself - my hp is like this - then the difference will not matter with you. also, i have searched on youtube and found this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPeDhyrqG98 it shows you how to install ssd drive in your laptop. i hope this info is sufficient for you. and i can tell you, my laptop is not gaming one and was becoming very slow and thinking about buying a new laptop. when i install this drive in it, i notices difference in the performance of windows 7 and 8. the laptop became very fast, and i was really happy about it. try to buy the largest size in GB that suits your budget because 250 GB is very little for me.
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Theoretically, it can be used to replace your curren HDD. I don't know the exact specs of your machine but most current generation computers should be able to use SSD's. I would check with Lenovo too - you might void your warranty if you open your machine or worse, you might break your machine if you improperly disassemble it while replacing the HDD.
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Yes, it is upgradeable to 240/500GB M2 SSDs, but you need to void the warranty (as it requires modification of the internal hardware and opening the computer) and requires some configuration from the HDD, so it is possible a clean install of Windows may be required after modification to accomodate the new SSD drive.
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As long as you don't change the motherboard, you're OK. I have changed out both my laptop and desktop (OS) hard drives to SSDs with no problem.There is a Microsoft Licensing FAQ on this --- it's under Refurbished/Used PCs.http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/en/licensing/sblicensing/pages/licensing_faq.aspx#fbid=ZeL6n4MrK8a
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Shure, all laptops have 2.5 inches hard drives. Make shure your's has one 2.5 hdd before buying the ssd
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Dude if you have a compaq, throw it out and I'll build you a real computer:). 800-707-2525. It would be a complete waste to put a fast SSD drive into a piece of crap. Of course this is not the SSD drive to get. The Samsung 840 pro is the one to get as it is almost double the speed for only $50 more. Well worth it. Plus the Samsung comes with software to keep it running fast where this drive will be running 1/5th the speed in about 5 months.
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if you dont want to invest much with SSD and want more space, you can buy seagate 2.5 in SSHD here: http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Solid-Hybrid-2-5-Inch-ST1000LM014/dp/B00B99JUBQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386149777&sr=8-1&keywords=2.5+sshd
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I haven't done that with this laptop, but have swapped a hard drive with an SSD on another HP laptop and it worked great. You just need to get an SSD hard drive that fits in a laptop, most of the more common SSD's do. You also will need to backup and restore the operating system from the existing disk to the new ssd drive.