Difference between SSD and HD: Why would someone choose the 8 gig SSD over the 160 gig HD?
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If you're not planning on having much data on it (using mostly web apps for example) and want the benefits of a SSD... Namely no moving parts.
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The SSD is SATA3. One is a piece of hardware, the other is the way it connects to the computer. #lmgtfy
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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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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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I have no idea. I hear bad things about SSD's and was going to purchase but when three vendors and a tech support agent advised against I decided to listen.
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I noticed that the hard disk sizes were somewhat different as I looked at different systems. I chose one with a 750 gig hard disk. Plenty of free space.
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I would select the one at the lower price , be it the Crucial or Samsung. Both are good drives and I'll bet you couldn't tell the difference between the two unless you ran benchmark software that told you one was faster. I have several different brand/size/speed drives and on a day-to-day basis there is no observable change in performance. Once you get a SSD you will be happy.
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I am using a 500Gb hard drive (the original that came with the Mac). In the original spot I've installed a 320Gb SSD drive. But I believe that if the Hard Drive has the same form factor, it doesn't matter the capacity.
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When you can buy a 1TB My Passport portable hard drive for $75, it's pretty hard to justify spending the extra $200 for only 128GB more from Apple IMHO. To me, the advantage of solid state drives is fast read/write times and no moving parts, but for general data storage I think standard drives work just fine. For comparison, a 1TB SSD would cost over $2,000.......
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I have no idea, I have the 500 GB HDD version, not the lower storage capacity SSD version.
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Greetings Joe, from the research I have done, it seems that the 840pro is better than the 830 which is better than the 840. The 840 uses cheaper memory technology than the 830 and 840pro which limits its write endurance over its lifetime. To answer your question about why the 830 is more expensive than the 840pro. My first hypothesis is that supply for the 840pro is much greater than the 830. Amazon will have to lower the price of that product if they want to keep people from buying it at other stores. I also noticed that many of the reviews for the 830 were from customers replacing hard drives on their Macbooks. If they were recommended that drive by a friend and saw the good reviews, they may or may not check similar products. At that point they are in the same boat as you, wondering why the ssd that looks better in specs is cheaper. In the end if they are on the fence, they probably value the advice and judgment of someone they know with similar tech to them rather than going gnashing over what is most efficient. Hope that helped you in making your decision, enjoy the SSD.
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1TB SSD+HDD faster boot and photoshop work well! But Balance must Core i5 or i7 and 16GB Ram important work faster!! IF core i3 and 8GB Ram no possible!!
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I'm no expert, but this is how I understand it. The 128GB SSD and the 500 GB Hard drive are separate options. You get either/or. The 500GB hard drive has a 8 GB SSD used as a cache. You are not able to use it as storage.
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Hybrids are a blending of SSD and platter technologies that provide many of the benefits of each, so the usual choices are either 1-just the SSHD (the budget alternative) or 2-install both SSD for faster boots and loads of major apps and a standard HDD for larger data storage like videos, etc. I have installed SSHDs on both my primary notebook and desktop, and find that boots are much faster as are loads of the apps that I use all the time (Chrome and Thunderbird). Seagate maintains that the 6GB of Solid State (SS) in the SSHD is enough for most users... So unless are you wanting to spend a little more than twice as much for the second option (SSD and HDD) then Seagate's SSHD is a great compromise, J Hybrids are a blending of SSD and platter technologies that provide many of the benefits of each, so the usual choices are either 1-just the SSHD (the budget alternative) or 2-install both SSD for faster boots and loads of major apps and a standard HDD for larger data storage like videos, etc. I have installed SSHDs on both my primary notebook and desktop, and find that boots are much faster as are loads of the apps that I use all the time (Chrome and Thunderbird). Seagate maintains that the 6GB of Solid State (SS) in the SSHD is enough for most users... So unless are you wanting to spend a... » Read More Hybrids are a blending of SSD and platter technologies that provide many of the benefits of each, so the usual choices are either 1-just the SSHD (the budget alternative) or 2-install both SSD for faster boots and loads of major apps and a standard HDD for larger data storage like videos, etc. I have installed SSHDs on both my primary notebook and desktop, and find that boots are much faster as are loads of the apps that I use all the time (Chrome and Thunderbird). Seagate maintains that the 6GB of Solid State (SS) in the SSHD is enough for most users... So unless are you wanting to spend a little more than twice as much for the second option (SSD and HDD) then Seagate's SSHD is a great compromise, J « Show Less
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5.9 because the hdd is not top flight. But it is a very fast machine. The 24GB internal SSD (system run only) is what probably gives it such speedy performance, bypassing a lot of hdd ops. Takes a long time to awake from hibernation, though. We just turn off the monitor instead. A very good and fast computer.
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First off, I only spent $40 on my 30 GB cache drive and I personally think 60 GB is too small for a desktop system drive. For a SSD system drive I would not get anything smaller than a 90 or better yet 120 GB drive. The reason for a larger drive is that while a SSD has a long rated life each read and write shortens the usable life of that section used and having a larger drive means that this use is spread over more sections and should extend the usable life of the drive.
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Googled the model number and on sites such as bestbuy, walmart, and cnet the descriptions say it does have 20gb of SSD. likewise, there's a similar product on Amazon with a different model number that i have compared to and i couldnt find any difference to find out why it cost $100 more. I am hoping this model is everything other websites say it is.