Solid state drives

[ganjamo]

Has anyone got one?

Ive got mine on my Windows desktop and its THE BEST upgrade you can do to a computer.
Got an 80gig Intel X25-M and considering its one of the fat kids of the bunch, my computer starts in 1/3 of the time it took before. Its setup as a boot disk (obviously) and all the porn and stuff are in regular hard disks.

Read and write speeds are increased at least by 150%, nowadays with SATA3 you can push up to 300+ MB/s...

Ordered one for my Macbook now, got a Crucial C300 128Gb for almost half the price of the Intel from a year ago

[CircleGuy]

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i got the same intel ssd a couple months ago. price was reasonable and the longevity of this drive should be pretty good considering it's flash memory. my system loads in about half the time, overall i'm very satisfied

[TomTom]

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Is there a way to move the original C drive over to an SSD without having to reinstall the entire OS and all programs? A clone of the installed C drive to the SSD so to say.

[ganjamo]

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Yup you can clone no problem TomTom.

[Simon Preston]

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My brother has one in his desktop and the speed in which it boots up is unbelievable.
However, I'm still waiting for them to hit the price/size sweet spot before I get one.

[TomTom]

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Yup you can clone no problem TomTom.

Even if source and destination drives/partitions have different sizes? RIght now I have reserved 100 GB for my C: drive on a 500GB HDD but the SDD will have no more than 80 or 120GB for sure...far too expensive still and I only need it to speed Windows and most used programs up.

[ganjamo]

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Not 100% sure if that might work. Gotta give it a try... if not installing the OS again is very fast.

[kevinalex]

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A solid state drive is a data storage device uses the solid state memory or hard disk drive.Solid state in the same way a traditional block access persistent data store with the intention of providing a power. Word of the electronic circuitry that is built entirely out of semiconductors shows.

[FM]

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Most partition manager programs can work around that.

Absolute worst case:

-Partition the 500GB off, then copy the (now) smaller "C"..unless you're keeping the 500 as a pure backup, then you can just format it out anyway.

[Alpinevpr]

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I'm jealous. I just rebuilt my computer a while ago and wanted to go SSD, but at the time to get a total of 150gb space was like 500 dollars. It just wasn't worth it in my opinion. Now I want to get one.

[TomTom]

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Not 100% sure if that might work. Gotta give it a try... if not installing the OS again is very fast.

This OS is not the problem..installing all programs and gathering the usernames and passwords for them is the pain in the ass lol.

This is for the Geeks:

[floridaorange]

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oh my god.. so what did it cost him to make that happen?

[ganjamo]

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^^ Now a decent one is like 200$+

[floridaorange]

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^^ Now a decent one is like 200$+

link?

[ganjamo]

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i got this one a week ago. Still waiting for it to arrive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148348

here are plenty more: http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCateg...y=636&name=SSD