Is the A80 "solid state" or does it have a rotating internal disk?
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Quote from review"The Armor A80 is the first device from Silicon Power I've seen, and it's impressive. The drive is waterproof, rugged, and most importantly very fast, according to my testing. Despite all that, it still manages to be as compact as other portable drives that are based on 2.5-inch standard internal hard drives. It's also bus-powered."
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I am almost sure it has an internal disk. A solid state drive costs much much for less storage area.
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It is an M.2 drive. I have no idea do you have the slot. I am having it running in the Sager NP 8652 and it is running great with no issues at all. Great product!
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If you open the case (which I had to fix the drive after it had jammed and would not be recognized), you can see that the internal drive is a Samsung ST1000LM024. I Googled this and found the following description on another site: SAMSUNG Spinpoint M8 ST1000LM024 1TB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive
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Yes it is. And you get all the backup DVD's with it - which my previous machine, an Acer, did not. It has plenty of power, and comes up quickly. I am satisfied with it.
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Its strictly a DVD drive. And no discrete graphics card. Its integrated shared memory type only.
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I'm not sure about the keyboard but as for the drives, yes it has a solid state and a 1TB disk.
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That's what I am using right now. Replace the rotating dasd with solid state. Wish I could do that on my desktop. I am not sure what that PC model is, but it will work. You must have a way to copy ALL data from old drive C:. I used some purchased utility to help. To be done only if you know what you are doing.
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I believe the A2 is limited to text files at this time. That may change with future firmware updates. If PDF and MSOffice document viewing is important to you, you may want to wait for the next generation - Cowon A3 - which is due out later this year. That is supposed to also have the option of 30 or 60 GB HDDs, and will have a upgraded chipset (DaVinci by TI) and have the capability of playing VOB files (which will save DVD converting time.) It was shown at CES, and you can watch a video about it at CNET.
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no it does not, what they mean by "SOLID STATE DRIVE" is that cache memory on this netbook is 1GB in size and its soldered to motherboard (nonupgradeable),but its not a hard drive at all,i hope this helps.
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No, there is no internal hard disk. Unless you connect it to an external recording device. Hope this help.
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Yes. Swapped mine in/out with old spinning platters as part of drive cloning/rebooting. Did this with my XPS 630i, but found there was no way to do AHCI on the 630i. SSD still worked, but not at full speed, & I was concerned re: adverse impact on drive longevity, so it turned out to be time to build a new machine, too.
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No because it is reconditioned. All info can be found on the net at San Disk.
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Yeah there are two HUGE differences. The UL80VT has DDR3 Ram, whereas the UL80AG uses DDR2. DDR3 is faster but more importantly, it runs cooler than DDR2. That will help battery life and internal temperatures of the laptop. DDR3 in general is more expensive than DDR2 Ram. Secondly, the UL80VT has switchable graphics. There's the integrated graphics card, and then it also comes with a Nvidia g210M dedicated card. You can switch on the fly to whatever card suits your needs, if you prefer a real graphics card you have that option, or if you want to save battery life, that is also available. The UL80AG does not include that dedicated graphics card. It only has the integrated Intel 4500HD card. In terms of price, the UL80VT is priced accordingly. Better Ram and extra graphics card = the approx. $100 price difference. Hope that helps!
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the one I have has a 256 gig solid state in it. It partitions down to a little bit less than that
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Standard hard drive, not solid state. Normal hard disk drives are listed as HDD, solid state drives are listed as SSD.
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When I check the "Device Manager" of my machine, the Solid State drive is listed as: Toshiba THNSNH256G8NT That's all the information it seems to list. I did a Google search of the HD model number and found this spec sheet on the Toshiba website. In finding that model, replace the "256" in the model number with "xxx" (to yield THNSNHxxxG8NT). Once the following link opens, just search (Control-F) for that modified model number: http://storage.toshiba.com/ProductDatasheet.aspx?product=HG5d Hope this helps. I'm very happy with the drive and the entire computer for that matter. That's saying a lot because I am very demanding when it comes to electronic devices.
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The primary difference between the two is that the a80 is a little more durable in design and the ability to take abuse. The Military 810F rating indicates greater durability under harsher conditions vs. the 810G. This refers to testing against extreme pressures, temperatures, humidity, collision, etc. Additionally, the a80 is touted as "waterproof". If you work in rainy climates or near water, the waterproof option may work better for you. Aside from that, both hard drives offer the same capacity and USB 3.0/2.0 standards. and the same, simple USB to USB connecting cable, which doubles well as a transfer cable for migrating information between PC's. Hope this helps.