Recommendations for good/inexpensive SSD <300GB?
Sep 17, 2016, 8:40 pm
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Drive arrived. X250 drive cloned to it. Samsung optimaztion software downloded and run. My, this thing flies now! (Will be even better when I double the ram this week).
Most tedious part was VERY carefully getting the bottom of the laptop removed. Didn't want to break anything!
Thanks to everyone for your help
Most tedious part was VERY carefully getting the bottom of the laptop removed. Didn't want to break anything!
Thanks to everyone for your help
Sep 19, 2016, 7:56 pm
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For SATA drives, everything is at present fast enough, and for the vast majority of use cases the difference between the better slow-ish "value drives" and the fastest ones will not be noticeable.
If you really need faster speeds, you need a PCI-e drive, which tends to require being selective about what to put it in.
The Samsung EVO drives are perfectly good drives, but not IMO worth the premium; the Crucial MX300 and Sandisk X400 are both much better values at larger sizes (at smaller sizes, the spread is small enough that for many of us it won't matter.)
If you really need faster speeds, you need a PCI-e drive, which tends to require being selective about what to put it in.
The Samsung EVO drives are perfectly good drives, but not IMO worth the premium; the Crucial MX300 and Sandisk X400 are both much better values at larger sizes (at smaller sizes, the spread is small enough that for many of us it won't matter.)
Oct 7, 2016, 5:46 pm
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Really enjoying the speed of the new drive!
I have downloaded Samsung Magician and done the optimization stuff.
Do I also want to enable Rapid Mode? Pros and cons?
I have downloaded Samsung Magician and done the optimization stuff.
Do I also want to enable Rapid Mode? Pros and cons?
Oct 7, 2016, 6:38 pm
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