My wife's Acer Aspire 3515 running Win Vista. I want to replace the aging 160gb HDD with a SSD. closest SSD is 120gb? does size matters? 72gb C:/ of HDD is for programs, 72gb D:/ is partioned for data. My wife's Acer Aspire 3515 running Win Vista. I want to replace the aging 160gb HDD with a SSD. closest SSD is 120gb? does size matters? 72gb C:/ of HDD is for programs, 72gb D:/ is... » Read More My wife's Acer Aspire 3515 running Win Vista. I want to replace the aging 160gb HDD with a SSD. closest SSD is 120gb? does size matters? 72gb C:/ of HDD is for programs, 72gb D:/ is partioned for data. « Show Less
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There is 160. Pay attention to speed... Sata3 SSD doesnt work on some notebooks (In my case a R3 Alienware only Sata2 works)
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I purchased this laptop last month and can confirm that the SSD is 16 GB, and the HDD is 5400 RPM.
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It says 500 GB HDD. I don't know what that means so I hope that helps. We both have Acers and love the 17 inch screen and the graphics. we also enjoy windows 7.
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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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It's a 320gb hard drive. The ssd refurs to the 16gb - 32gb sd card. It's on the asus website. But this guy doesn't tell you is that there isn't an operating system in the product that he is selling. All he told was he "had to listen everything from asus site". Good computer crappy seller
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I installed a SSD (240gb) and for me, this swap greatly improves the speed. SSDs are not too expensive and I'm sure you can find one that will work for you. Also, there is a YouTube video showing how to swap out the SSD (search for Acer V5-122p)
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The new drive MUST have at least the same capacity as the original drive. In other words, the SSD drive must be equal to 300GB or more for it to wor, regardless of how much data you have on the original drive.
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I've never taken this apart, but the two drives would be separate. The specifications for the SSD are 24G,32G mSATA; but I'm not sure what this means (could mean two SSDs, or either size might be present in a given unit). The SSD seems to make booting and turning off the computer much faster; and programs open quickly.
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If that is the same size as the original HDD (its likely a 500GB) and you are using the Toshiba restore disk that came with it.If you are installing a new window O/S not from the Toshiba restore disk then you should be ok with the 640GB HDD.
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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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I don't know, but here are the more specific questions you should be asking:1. Will it fit correctly? There are two different sizes of 2.5" HDDs (normal & slim)2. Does the laptop support SATA II?3. Do you have the restore disks to reinstall everything? (Not specific to this HDD)
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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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You could use a drive like this but what's the point - since the laptop already has a hybrid SSD/HDD set up. Additionally, I found this laptop to be slow and unresponsive until I installed an SSD drive (Samsung 840). I'd recommend just going with the largest SSD you can afford because it will really allow to use the rest of the laptop to its full potential. FInally, that particular drive is too thick at 9.5mm - there are mods to take some of these drives down to the required thickness of 7mm but again, what's the point - just get an SSD if anything.
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I checked my laptop and noticed that the 8gb ssd is visible in device manager but does not show up as a separate accessible drive under "This PC" e.g. "My Computer" or explorer. Therefore I can't save files to the ssd. The ssd shows up as disk 1 and the hdd shows up as disk 0 and contains the boot, files, oem, Recovery, page file, crash dump, and efi system partitions. Also, the os program files are on the 500gb hdd. The ssd has an 8gb primary partition only. All 8 gbytes are showing as free space on my laptop so I really don't know what the ssd is used for.
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Tha laptop have Just one Hd anda it is 128gb ssd maybe refer to 0gb ofrece HDD disk organización mechanical disk
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Because some of the space is needed by the controller for SSD wear and caching. 120GB = 128GB, 240GB = 256GB, etc. The manufacturers mentioning the lower capacity aren't lying to you. The ones that say the larger capacity will say ~120GB Usable Capacity somewhere. Hope this helps! More info: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1371468
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The ram is soldered down so that amount you get is what you're stuck with. You can upgrade the hard drive and replace it with a solid state drive which makes the device faster, specifically the boot up time. I bought this laptop for my mom and replaced the hard drive with a Samsung 840 SSD with no issues. A SSD will also keep internal temperatures lower since the memory is flash (like your thumb drive/usb stick) vs. a hard drive which has moving parts.