Greg, <br>If you don't want to spend a bundle for capacity and performance in a SSD, take a look at the hybrid drives. They supposed offered something like ~ 80% performance boost over a regular 7200RPM HDD, and you still get a lot of capacity for your $ <br>
<br>Newegg has 500GB Seagate for ~ $120<br><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148591&cm_re=hybrid_hard_drive-_-22-148-591-_-Product">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148591&cm_re=hybrid_hard_drive-_-22-148-591-_-Product</a><br>
<br>GC<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Greg Freemyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.freemyer@gmail.com">greg.freemyer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
All,<br>
<br>
What's a good choice for a value SSD for a laptop upgrade?<br>
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With Christmas coming up, I was thinking a SSD for my laptop would be<br>
a good present from my wife!<br>
<br>
But looking at the $100 items, I'm not as impressed as I expected to be.<br>
<br>
Intel for instance has the Intel X25-V, 40GB for $100.<br>
<br>
The write performance is only 35MB/sec (or about 2GB / min).<br>
<br>
I can write sequentially to a hdd at about 6GB / min, so that is not<br>
impressive at all.<br>
<br>
But I fully realize sequential access is not the key speed for generic<br>
laptop use, and 2 GB/min random access is pretty fast.<br>
<br>
Per slide 7 of <a href="http://download.intel.com/design/flash/nand/value/prodbrf/X25-V_40GB_Performance_Guide.pdf" target="_blank">http://download.intel.com/design/flash/nand/value/prodbrf/X25-V_40GB_Performance_Guide.pdf</a>,<br>
this SSD will make a productivity based workload about 2.44x faster.<br>
<br>
The other couple value SSDs I looked at were even lower performing,<br>
but I haven't spent too much time looking yet.<br>
<br>
Greg<br>
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