So my laptop’s HDD had some bad sector in it and now I’ll have to replace it . I am going for SSD and already ordered a new one from newegg . Now just waiting for it to come so I can install it and see what big of a deal it really is .
I checked online and I been able to find a lot of pros for it . Like its 100 times faster than regular hard drives and its shock proof and more reliable etc etc. The only con I been able to find is that you’ll have to update the firmware as soon as you install it , or it will freeze up your OS . Understandable and I can do that . But apart from that I couldn’t really find anything else .
Have you guys tried it out ? how was your experience with it ? any insight ?
100 times faster lol you wish... The biggest con is their unreliablity. I would stay away from the current yields. I would not save any important data on it and just use it as a boot drive. That is all it is good at for now.
I just put in an SSD on my PC. It may not be 100 times faster but i think it sped up my PC atleast 4-5+ times. Win7 boots in about 5-6 seconds till I get to the Ctrl/Alt/Del screen. I have to bench-mark it yet, but I'm blown away. I'm still using the SATA II controller that's in the PC. Going to order the SATA III controller next week.
Yes, its the best thing you can do it now to speed up your computer, the mechanical drive is the main performance bottle neck for today's system, we have great processors, speedy RAM's, front side bus and all, but the HDD still runs at 5400RPM for laptop and 7200RPM on most desktop.
I have a SSD as my boot drive, its blazing fast at everything, booting up takes less than 10 sec, and opening up apps are stupid-fast. And for the reliability, i dont think mechanical HDD's are anything better than SSD's, actually i will rate SSD's over HDD on reliability.
100 times faster lol you wish... The biggest con is their unreliablity. I would stay away from the current yields. I would not save any important data on it and just use it as a boot drive. That is all it is good at for now.
The only unreliability is the number of writes that can be done on the SSD before the sectors lose the ability to write any more. Unlike a HDD, a SSD would always retain the ability to read data so there is some fool proofing of data here.
My wife's 1.7 GHz macbook air (SSD) is much faster in boot up and bringing apps up than my 2.3 Ghz office laptop (spin drive), and I dont remember it crashing at all.
I have had problems with SSDs two times for my current Mac. Apple said that they replaced the SSD, though I wonder if they just reformatted it. Never ever get a 128 gb SSD if you are putting a virtual machine on it. People have done it successfully and mine is holding right now, but I have had problems with my drive suddenly filling up (page file problem?) and Mac didn't restart for a while. Also, for some reason you can't really transfer your time machine backups (migration assistant or otherwise) from a different Mac considering the grief I got no matter what Apple advertisements tell you otherwise. It is a good thing that I religiously keep most of my installers saved as well, so a fresh install is always an option.
