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Post subject: Confused between SSD and 7200 rpm?!
 Posted: Jun 24, 2011 - 08:59 PST
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Dear Friends,
I have an Acer Aspire 5940G laptop, 2 GHz, 2G ram and a pathetic 4200 rpm hdd. Now I would like to upgrade my hard disk for speed. But I am not sure whether SSD or a 7200 rpm drive would be the best bet for me.
First of all, I am not sure whether this old lappy support SSD hard disk; even if it supports would it really give such performance as it boasts? Also, I may install only Windows 2K or XP (not Windows 7 as my webcam works really pathetic in Windows 7). But I heard, SSD drives works best with Windows 7 only (kindly ignore linux and other os variants).
Considering the above facts, kindly suggest me whether to go for SSD or a 7,200 rpm drive as the best upgrade for this laptop? Thanks a million in advance.
Warm Regards
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Post subject: RE: Confused between SSD and 7200 rpm?!
Posted: Jun 24, 2011 - 03:52 PST
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| Hi Anand- the 5940G seems to be a relatively new model by Acer- are you sure you have the model name correct? If your laptop uses SATA then you do have a lot more options available to you when it comes to SSDs. It also depends on how much you are willing to spend and how much space you need. In general I do recommend SSDs for all laptops because of not only speed but the shock tolerance vs mechanical traditional hard drives. |
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Post subject: RE: Confused between SSD and 7200 rpm?!
Posted: Jun 28, 2011 - 01:11 PST
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| An SSD also increases your battery life as well as makes everything run much faster. Your laptop has a 2.5inch drive inside it and it uses the Intel PM55 chipset which is SATA III - so the new SSD's from Crucial, Intel and Solidata's X8 series (soon to be released) will blow your mind with performance of over 500 Mb/s read and write. |
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