120GB SanDisk Extreme SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5in SSD - £62.99 @ Amazon
£3 more than Scan had it at a few weeks ago, but they've run out of stock. Top SSD in my opinion... I happily paid £90 for it only a few months ago!
Read 550MB/s, Write 510MB/s, 83000 IOPS Max.
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Jump to unread Post a CommentWould I be able to run them both though? Was hoping to have this just as a boot drive and mabye stick a couple of my most played games on it too, have a 500gb hard drive and have filled 150gb within a month of owning a laptop so would need to keep the main hdd as well or wait till the higher capacity ones drop.
Would I be able to run them both though? Was hoping to have this just as a boot drive and mabye stick a couple of my most played games on it too, have a 500gb hard drive and have filled 150gb within a month of owning a laptop so would need to keep the main hdd as well or wait till the higher capacity ones drop.
Assuming you have space for a second hard drive in your laptop, you would be able to run them both together. If not, you would have to replace existing hard drive with the ssd and then get yourself an a caddy so that you could run your old drive via USB
The 240GB version of this is £119 on Amazon at the moment, so that might be a better investment?
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/240gb-sandisk-extreme-sdssdx-240g-g25-119-94-delivered-scans-ebayshop-1313461
You could also buy a 2.5" enclosure for your current hard drive and use it as an external one with your media files on? Any idea if your laptop is USB 3.0?
Edited By: mamboboy on Sep 18, 2012 14:57
Aye I have 1 usb 3.0 port so I suppose that is an option. I suppose if I don't have an extra port I will wait for another price drop.
Edited By: JoshJoshJosh on Sep 18, 2012 15:55: .
depending on the laptop you may have an mSATA port to add an ssd to. this however is not msata so unless your model specifically has 2 hard drive bays you will have to replace. just make sure it's a 9.5mm bay and not 7mm
edit:
sata 1 interface so this will max it out.
it has a 9.5mm bay which is good for this and does not support mSATA so you will have to replace the internal drive.
Edited By: andreapedrazzini on Sep 18, 2012 17:47
If you don't really use your DVD drive, you can get a caddy to put your large storage HDD into the space where your optical drive was, and use the SSD as the main drive. I just put my DVD drive into an external enclosure as I rarely use it, but I needed the storage space from the HDD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D9YROTFFxc - I made a video of the process for the Dell Studio XPS 16
Would I be able to run them both though? Was hoping to have this just as a boot drive and mabye stick a couple of my most played games on it too, have a 500gb hard drive and have filled 150gb within a month of owning a laptop so would need to keep the main hdd as well or wait till the higher capacity ones drop.
there's also the alternative of replacing the dvd bay... I recently bought a caddy and usb dvd enclosure to put my current hdd in the dvd bay of my laptop and have the dvd run from usb (if I ever use it)... haven't set it up yet as I'm still having trouble deciding the ssd to buy, but should work fine :)
here are some dvd caddies, you can look for a compatible one: http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=dvd+hard+drive+caddy&catId=0&manual=y
Of all the Sandisk posts here, I can't recall one person in them saying they had to RMA their's or it failed. OCZ on the other hand around 1 in 5 is! :)
TIA
Edited By: DrSpook on Sep 18, 2012 20:08: doh, reliability question answered above
nice price
Would I be able to run them both though? Was hoping to have this just as a boot drive and mabye stick a couple of my most played games on it too, have a 500gb hard drive and have filled 150gb within a month of owning a laptop so would need to keep the main hdd as well or wait till the higher capacity ones drop.
What about the docking station put on here above?
http://www.dabs.com/products/best-value-emprex-eds-001-hard-drive-docking-station--2-5----3-5---861J.html?q=Hard%20Drive%20Docking%20Station&src=16?ReferrerID=tb&utm_source=td&utm_medium=affiliates&utm_content=TB00
Or you could replace the Optical drive with it, if you have one on your laptop. (not an easy straight forward thing to do though.
Edited By: fzbob on Sep 18, 2012 21:43