[AccessD] apocalypse someday...

John,

Do you have an internal HDD on your laptop or is what you have for HDD all
USB connected?
I see the EVo 500 GB SSD at newegg for 279 now.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147249





On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did you have to reinstall everything you had already put on the as-built
> drive or did you use some imaging software that got you across the goal
> line?
> On Mar 8, 2014 5:15 PM, "John W Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I spent $300 for a 500GB Samsung EVO SSD for my $1000 HP Envy 17.  Night
> > and day difference in performance, loading and writing EVERYTHING.
>  Laptops
> > are crippled with their crappy 5400 RPM drives, but even 7200 drives are
> > three times slower than a good SSD.  It's like buying a ferrari and
> hooking
> > it up to a Clydesdale to pull it down the road.  Plus the SSD has no
> moving
> > parts and is lower powered.  What's not to like (other than price).
> >
> > John W. Colby
> >
> > Reality is what refuses to go away
> > when you do not believe in it
> >
> > On 3/8/2014 5:04 PM, Bill Benson wrote:
> >
> >> Speaking of moving forwards.
> >>
> >> Does any geeky guy/gal want to weigh in on whether SSDs are worth the
> >> humongous price per gb difference versus standard (spinning platter)
> HDDs?
> >>
> >> I think that this is may be one area where the speed/durability gap
> >> between
> >> laptop and desktop is levelled.
> >>
> >> My only reason besides cost for not switching over is I don't want to go
> >> through more re - installs of my "everything". But if I find out for
> sure
> >> I
> >> can upgrade without installing everything (and fr--no Dell won't give me
> >> any coaching because "Our policy at Dell forbids us from talking about
> >> data." Excuse me, you are a tech company and that involves data, right
> >> hmmm? Fuhgettaboudit.
> >>
> >> BB
> >>
> >
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