| Bought a SSD for my laptop :) | |
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Anubis Senior Member
Join date : 2013-07-27 Posts : 1019 Star Points : 5350 Location : McMurdo Station, Antartica
| Subject: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Wed Sep 23, 2015 10:12 pm | |
| So, a few weeks ago, I bought a new SSD for my laptop and boy is it fast! 200 Read and 170 write, just because my laptop uses SATA 2.0 and not 3.0, but it's much faster than a physical drive. | |
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[SWES]gnmmarechal Administrator
Join date : 2013-10-03 Posts : 12767 Star Points : 26774 Age : 25 Location : Look behind you!
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Thu Sep 24, 2015 11:31 am | |
| aha, nice! I currently have a 1TB+8GB SSHD. | |
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Anubis Senior Member
Join date : 2013-07-27 Posts : 1019 Star Points : 5350 Location : McMurdo Station, Antartica
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Thu Sep 24, 2015 5:15 pm | |
| I've heard nothing but shitty things about SSHD's, so I just bought a SSD instead. Only around 84 dollars. Worth it to me. | |
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[SWES]gnmmarechal Administrator
Join date : 2013-10-03 Posts : 12767 Star Points : 26774 Age : 25 Location : Look behind you!
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Fri Sep 25, 2015 9:20 am | |
| it came with my laptop, works better than the HDD I had before. | |
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thedarkknight Leader
Join date : 2012-05-11 Posts : 10586 Star Points : 212014 Age : 25 Location : Arkham Asylum, Gotham City, England
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Fri Sep 25, 2015 12:05 pm | |
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Anubis Senior Member
Join date : 2013-07-27 Posts : 1019 Star Points : 5350 Location : McMurdo Station, Antartica
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Fri Sep 25, 2015 5:02 pm | |
| It does look good, sorry for not taking a picture of the drive. They are metal and feel nice to hold. | |
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[SWES]gnmmarechal Administrator
Join date : 2013-10-03 Posts : 12767 Star Points : 26774 Age : 25 Location : Look behind you!
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Fri Sep 25, 2015 5:58 pm | |
| also, Idk, can I defrag an SSHD? I don't really know. I mean, it has some SSD part.... I'd be wearing it down, right? | |
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thedarkknight Leader
Join date : 2012-05-11 Posts : 10586 Star Points : 212014 Age : 25 Location : Arkham Asylum, Gotham City, England
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Sat Sep 26, 2015 4:34 pm | |
| - gnmmarechal wrote:
- also, Idk, can I defrag an SSHD? I don't really know. I mean, it has some SSD part.... I'd be wearing it down, right?
Idk, I know SSDs don't need defragging as they don't have moving parts or physical disks, hybrids though?? Idk. | |
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[SWES]gnmmarechal Administrator
Join date : 2013-10-03 Posts : 12767 Star Points : 26774 Age : 25 Location : Look behind you!
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Sun Sep 27, 2015 2:43 pm | |
| I guess the HDD part could be defragged, but it'd also try to defrag the SSD cache which would wear it down eventually. | |
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Anubis Senior Member
Join date : 2013-07-27 Posts : 1019 Star Points : 5350 Location : McMurdo Station, Antartica
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Sun Sep 27, 2015 10:46 pm | |
| I would advise against defragging a SSHD, since the drive cannot tell whether you are writing to the disk or just defragging. | |
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[SWES]gnmmarechal Administrator
Join date : 2013-10-03 Posts : 12767 Star Points : 26774 Age : 25 Location : Look behind you!
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Mon Sep 28, 2015 6:31 pm | |
| it shouldn't be too bad, well at least I think defragging an SSD is still worse. | |
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Anubis Senior Member
Join date : 2013-07-27 Posts : 1019 Star Points : 5350 Location : McMurdo Station, Antartica
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Tue Sep 29, 2015 1:10 am | |
| It will wear out the SSD cache in the SSHD, since it doesn't know the difference. So it would be better to just buy a SSD or HDD, that way you can defrag to regain performance, or you don't need to defrag at all. | |
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[SWES]gnmmarechal Administrator
Join date : 2013-10-03 Posts : 12767 Star Points : 26774 Age : 25 Location : Look behind you!
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Tue Sep 29, 2015 7:48 am | |
| true. I may save up for a big SSD first then. | |
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[SWES]gnmmarechal Administrator
Join date : 2013-10-03 Posts : 12767 Star Points : 26774 Age : 25 Location : Look behind you!
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:49 am | |
| I might get one of these tho: http://hddcaddy.com/en/toshiba-hdd-caddy/1043-hdd-caddy-for-toshiba-qosmio-x70-.html
And then get an ssd. I don't use the optical drive too often. Problem is, I think that's not the same color as my laptop, and I really like the red and black thing XD | |
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Anubis Senior Member
Join date : 2013-07-27 Posts : 1019 Star Points : 5350 Location : McMurdo Station, Antartica
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Wed Sep 30, 2015 8:55 pm | |
| Haha! We think alike don't we!
I ordered mine for my Macbook a few days ago, it's arriving tomorrow. Can't wait.
Just upgraded my RAM today, it's now from 4GB, and now 6GB.
1x2GB DDR3 DIM 1066MHz - Kingston 1x4GB DDR3 DIM 1333MHz - Samsung
250GB SSD. Haha, now all I need to do is buy a 1TB laptop drive. My laptop is a beast now. | |
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[SWES]gnmmarechal Administrator
Join date : 2013-10-03 Posts : 12767 Star Points : 26774 Age : 25 Location : Look behind you!
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Thu Oct 01, 2015 5:46 am | |
| Nice, I might also get some more RAm, but Im not sure how many slots my laptop has (some people say 4, others say 2). I have to check it. Also, u cant remove the keyboard on my laptop, and some ppl say the Qosmio x70-B-10T has the slots under the keyboard... Still, Im ok with 16GB. | |
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Anubis Senior Member
Join date : 2013-07-27 Posts : 1019 Star Points : 5350 Location : McMurdo Station, Antartica
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Thu Oct 01, 2015 4:28 pm | |
| Most laptops only have 2 slots. Mine has 2. You don't get to the RAM by opening the bottom of your laptop? Lol, the last time I lifted a keyboard up to get to my RAM was on a iBook G4. | |
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[SWES]gnmmarechal Administrator
Join date : 2013-10-03 Posts : 12767 Star Points : 26774 Age : 25 Location : Look behind you!
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Thu Oct 01, 2015 6:16 pm | |
| well, I'm not sure, I've read it, some ppl say it has two slots under the keyboard and at the bottom, others say it only has 2 under the keyboard and some say it has two at the bottom. Well, anyway, I read a little bit more (found the HDD replacement official Toshiba guide for my model) and I saw the RAM in the picture. Also, I found that I don't need a caddy, cuz I have a 2nd HDD bay :D | |
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Anubis Senior Member
Join date : 2013-07-27 Posts : 1019 Star Points : 5350 Location : McMurdo Station, Antartica
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Fri Oct 02, 2015 12:51 am | |
| Lucky. I got my caddy today though. | |
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[SWES]gnmmarechal Administrator
Join date : 2013-10-03 Posts : 12767 Star Points : 26774 Age : 25 Location : Look behind you!
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Sat Oct 03, 2015 5:44 am | |
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Anubis Senior Member
Join date : 2013-07-27 Posts : 1019 Star Points : 5350 Location : McMurdo Station, Antartica
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:20 pm | |
| Yeah! Works great! And some assholes are trying to sell theirs for like 40 dollars when I got mine for 7, and it works fine! | |
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[SWES]gnmmarechal Administrator
Join date : 2013-10-03 Posts : 12767 Star Points : 26774 Age : 25 Location : Look behind you!
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Sat Oct 03, 2015 7:06 pm | |
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Anubis Senior Member
Join date : 2013-07-27 Posts : 1019 Star Points : 5350 Location : McMurdo Station, Antartica
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Sat Oct 03, 2015 7:48 pm | |
| Amazon. You gotta look around. Here it is(CLICK ME) | |
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[SWES]gnmmarechal Administrator
Join date : 2013-10-03 Posts : 12767 Star Points : 26774 Age : 25 Location : Look behind you!
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Sun Oct 04, 2015 6:54 am | |
| haha "Sorry, we can't deliver this item to Portugal Learn more" on the toshiba caddy. well, I don't need it, since I have the second slot, but I want to get an SSD soon. | |
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Anubis Senior Member
Join date : 2013-07-27 Posts : 1019 Star Points : 5350 Location : McMurdo Station, Antartica
| Subject: Re: Bought a SSD for my laptop :) Sun Oct 04, 2015 3:07 pm | |
| That sucks ass. So you can't order most sh*t online in your country? Amazon and Ebay are the biggest places. If Amazon will not deliver, try Ebay, and if they even don't, then I guess you're SOL. | |
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