Intel 520 vs Other SSDs. What is the benefit? What are the benefits of the Intel 520 to lets say the Corsair Force Series?
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Intel gets first choice of the flash memory chip production for these SSDs. The other manufacturers get what Intel doesn't want.
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No. All a ssd does for you is access your files faster. You don't really need one. It does help if you put games on it.
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Hi Chris--The driving factor will be the size of your collection. This drive is roughly half the size of a electromechanical hard drive. You CAN use data compression tools with this drive. The drive itself is actually better suited to use as an Operating System drive with an external hard drive for your audio material. The benefit to the SSD is that it is extremely fast--roughly 5 times faster in my system-- and it is very cool--the lack of moving parts and motors reduces the heat production significantly. This ALSO reduces the amount of energy required, so your notebook battery should last much longer. Hi Chris--The driving factor will be the size of your collection. This drive is roughly half the size of a electromechanical hard drive. You CAN use data compression tools with this drive. The drive itself is actually better suited to use as an Operating System drive with an external hard drive for your audio material. The benefit to the SSD is that it is extremely fast--roughly 5 times faster in my system-- and it is very cool--the lack of moving parts and motors reduces the heat production significantly. This ALSO reduces the amount of energy required, so your notebook battery should last... » Read More Hi Chris--The driving factor will be the size of your collection. This drive is roughly half the size of a electromechanical hard drive. You CAN use data compression tools with this drive. The drive itself is actually better suited to use as an Operating System drive with an external hard drive for your audio material. The benefit to the SSD is that it is extremely fast--roughly 5 times faster in my system-- and it is very cool--the lack of moving parts and motors reduces the heat production significantly. This ALSO reduces the amount of energy required, so your notebook battery should last much longer. « Show Less
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Well Depends on your situation I would never do it I have a 240 gig SSD so why would I want to. If its stable not going to get bumped I might think about it at the cost. I can definitely check this out and see what happens as a gamer and system builder I have thought of it I haven't done it because of aforementioned. same for the 128 I got
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No reason why you shouldn't use this along side a standard SSD. I would use the SSD as the boot drive though.
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Although they both have the SATA 3 6GBs header, you can actually fit an SSD into the taller case. Not much point, though, with a 250GB mSATA main drive already there, unless you've got some other mini SATA device. It's never going to be a speed rig with a 15W TDP processor, so halving the SSD response delay by using a RAID0 won't help much, and it's got 4X USB 3 ports for data. The Intel HD Graphics 5000 is stunning. I heartily recommend this machine.
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Performance increase with the RAM upgrade but, installing an SSD really did the trick. Well worth the small extra investment.
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Yes it is. I am not sure how SSD improves the whole performance of this computer, but I can say that booting speed is way faster than other non SSD laptop.
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using an ssd for music and media storage is kind of a waste of its performance. the ssd will limit your capacity that you could get for the same price or cheaper with a traditional hard drive. the advantage of the ssd is it's speed so it's good for operating systems and programs that take time to load. you'll hardly notice a difference in performance having music on a sdd. the only real advantage would be if you search your catalog a lot as a ssd will be able to search faster.
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I've had this laptop for 6 months and haven't had a single problem. However, anecdotal evidence is hardly what you need. If people are alleging component failures, it's probably true. Then again, that's what a warranty is for.Unrelated: Cross your fingers that you don't get the Sanforce SSD. I was lucky and got the faster SSD. According to the reviews it makes a huge difference in performance. You won't know which drive you get until you open the box.
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I do not think that it supports But try this link http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/solid-state-drives-520-series. html
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Thanks for that. However, just to reiterate, the purpose of the SSD is for reliability, not speed.
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YES, it does have a 32GB mSATA SSD drive! Those individuals stating that it doesn't in their reviews are wrong! They're looking at "Devices and Drives" or "Disk Management" and not SEEING the SSD because it is HIDDEN by the Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST) program (probably as a protective measure)!!! The 32GB drive has 2 partitions: the hibernation partition (used by Intel Rapid Start) and a cache partition (the largest, used by Intel Rapid Storage Technology) which greatly speeds up the 5200 rpm HDD. I'm sure if they'll just go into "Device Manager" and select "Disk Drives" it'll show up and they can come back and correct their reviews.
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I chose Intel because I use it more often. I play World of Warcraft and raid alot and wanted to "feel" safe while playing/raiding. My system boots up and I am playing WoW within 45 seconds from the time that I push the power button on. Entering instances are usually 5 seconds faster than those who don't have SSD.
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Sata 6gb, the difference is speed...to benefit from the 6gbs, you have to have a compatible motherboard or else it will work on 3gbs (which would be fast anyways)
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Yes, but you essentially cannot use the SSD drive; it's merely there for faster boot up from what I've heard.
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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.