SSD worth it?

davidhk said:

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is it an over-kill for my laptop and a not-so-sophisticated user like me ?

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Samsung-850-E...item1a0c2e7727

My laptop specs is on Post #34.

Only overkill for this or the Mushkin you're looking at is, strictly technically speaking, they are SATA III (600 Mb/sec) capable drives and it looks to me like your machine only provides SATA II (300 Mb/sec) transfer rates. However, this by no means implies that you won't easily perceive the real benefits of this upgrade in increased speed. I don't think you're necessarily going to find or truly save anything digging around for an SSD only capable of SATA II nowadays.

So, in summary, NO it's not overkill as long as you don't get hung up comparing (unreal world) benchmarked performance in your system versus other folks' systems - not that I would expect you to...

OldMike65 said:

Samsung makes one of the Best SSD's very fast also. but that drive is pricey. I am not familiar with laptops David, Maybe @whs is, as I don't know if their is a difference in sizes that will fit into a Laptop vs Desktop. My 2 favorites are SSD's made by Intel and Samsung. Also does your laptop have sata 3 support?? as that will make a difference in the speed options on a SSD SATA 3 vs SATA 2 For your 1st try, maybe the 85.00 one is ok......you can also get a Samsung 250 for same price thou. Do some research on each brand....I would....and did. :)

Dam it....Word Man beat me....lol :)

I put the Samsung 850 EVO both in my (June '15) Dell Laptop and my Wife's Acer Aspire 5250 laptop (December '12) and, although I was only a bit annoyed that she got half the (useless benchmark) speed in her laptop that I got in my laptop, she's very much pleased with the results and chugging along like a champ on it. Both of these, BTW, had the original HDDs kicked to a $13 or so USB3 enclosure and are now used to capture periodic full MR images.

OldMike65 said:

Well now....maybe.....daddy needs to buy mom, a new laptop......hmmmmm???? sorry couldn't stop myself. I love Samsung SSD's!!!

H--- NO! We have 5 phones in this house - 4 of them are SMARTphones - guess who has the DUMB(a--)phone?

davidhk said:

Is this a good buy or is it an over-kill for my laptop and a not-so-sophisticated user like me ?

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Samsung-850-E...item1a0c2e7727

My laptop specs is on Post #34.

Why are you buying it from ebay ? $199 US ?
From Amazon it is $155 US
Amazon.com: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E500B/AM): Computers Accessories