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Notebook disk replacement dilemma

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Maybe we should recommend what drives are really a bad choice. At this moment Any Sandforce, due to bugs with more later chipsets. 840EVO yes... I had one too...

The only brand I really tend to not trust is Kingston lately... due to their cheating with IC's. Otherwise... Take any of them... for a simple laptop it won't matter really.
 
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silentbogo said:
1) Any decent mechanical HDD in a 250-500GB range will cost you around $40-50
2) A mediocre SSD in 240-256GB range costs about $10 more.
3) 250GB 850 EVO is almost $80
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Man, I wish it was that simple. I wouldn't have even thought about starting this thread. Unfortunately, prices are completely different over here. The mechanical disk I mentioned is $61. The 250GB 850 EVO is $92. The cheapest 250GB SSD I can find (typically Patriot Blast and ADATA Premier SP550) is $86 (and all these prices are roughly the lowest I can find in the country, meaning it's more in reputable shops).

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Not a wise choice of words, might I add.
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You are right, but I got sick of the guy's bullshit. I might type in a rough way, but I don't troll and pollute threads I don't even want to participate in.
 
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Mussels said:
just jumping in to say... why not an SSHD? you can get them a lot cheaper than a pure SSD, and they're a lot faster than traditional drives.
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I second this. In a laptop with a single drive, I do not tend to use a SSD unless I know exactly how much storage I am going to use. SSHD is a good compromise.
 
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By the way, you may want to check if that laptop is equipped with mSATA slot. I know HP always suck in that regard, but just in case...
Alternatively you can get a smaller 60-120GB SSD and an ODD caddy to relocate the old HDD as a low-speed storage.
Who uses DVDs anyways?
 
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silentbogo said:
By the way, you may want to check if that laptop is equipped with mSATA slot. I know HP always suck in that regard, but just in case...
Alternatively you can get a smaller 60-120GB SSD and an ODD caddy to relocate the old HDD as a low-speed storage.
Who uses DVDs anyways?
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Lots of newer HP's are using the 9.5mm ODDs, so a non-slim drive might not fit into the caddy for those.
 
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I have several of 9.5mm and 12.7mm universal ODD caddies and 9.5mm one can fit 1 TB laptop hdd fine. Not sure about 2TB ones though.
 
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