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SSD?

Bg260

Bg260

 
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I am interested in upgrading my new (old) machine to an SSD. From a little investigation, apparently I can't afford to. Not the 1Tb that I wanted at least. It made me think though, do I really need it for my gaping maw of data storage? How do most go about this?
I have a 3TB portable storage for the data, but this computer lacks a 3.0 USB and transfer times are slow. Price wise I'm right at about the 350-500Gb range depending on quality I suppose. Any suggestions?

Here's basically what I've got.

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03151850


Edit: I plan on dual booting from it. Should have mentioned that earlier. Probably going to be Win7 and Linux Mint Cinnamon. Idk might end up going with Win 10.
 
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Personally, my laptop has a 250 GB SSD built into it and then I just have several terabytes of external storage drives (some are USB 3.0, others are not) and that works just fine for me
 
Turns out my downloads folder was 15 GB, I had 1.5 GB of video on the drive, also like 22.5 GB of stuff that could be cleaned up via Disk Cleanup.
 
I'm kind of a hoarder in that aspect. I've got about 300 GB tied up in various ROMs and Isos. Backups for backups, media, etc. I'm constantly experimenting with my Android X86 project so I burn ALOT of .isos to USB. Through various stages. I guess that is my main concern. If I am burning these from an external location, will the integrity suffer? I think moving it to internal everytime sounds like a bit of a pain.
 
Thanks, BIOS is upgraded. 12Gbs of RAM. Even though it is only supposed to handle 8. I'm right around that $100 mark. I just don't want a cheapie that will crap out in a year. Thanks for the recommendation.
I have also seen a secondary drive in place of the CD/DVD. Oh yeah it's an HP Pavillion G series Notebook. It was broken beyond repair. IE, needed a new hard drive. I've got a 350 hdd in there temporarily.
 
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I do know you and I do trust your judgment. That's probably the biggest reason I started this. To get recommendations from all ya all. I don't trust the product reviews one bit. Looking back I probably worded that wrong. I meant thanks for the recommend. It's at the top of my list.
Sometimes my brain moves faster than my fingers can type.
 
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I just looked! 11753Mb total physical memory! Read somewhere that they may not have had 8 GB sticks when it was made. So at the time it could not physically handle more than 8. The other point says the manufacturer still had to include threads for the extra memory. Guess I got lucky.
 
What I did with my work laptop was replace the 1TB HDD with a 500GB SSD. I then bought a caddy (< $10) that allowed me to replace the DVD with the original HDD meaning I then had around 50% more storage than before - as well as an amazing performance boost as the O/S and other software were now on SSD. I toyed with idea of getting an external caddy for the DVD but in the end, didn't bother as I don't recall the last time I used the DVD drive on my work machine.

In order to maximise storage, I did need to back up the HDD files I wanted to keep to an external HDD so that I could reformat the HDD to get rid of the O/S etc before putting everything back.

The net result was I kept that laptop around a year longer than I would have done.

The whole process was relatively painless and worked so well that I did the same thing with my personal laptop.
 
SiempreTuna said:
What I did with my work laptop was replace the 1TB HDD with a 500GB SSD. I then bought a caddy (< $10) that allowed me to replace the DVD with the original HDD meaning I then had around 50% more storage than before - as well as an amazing performance boost as the O/S and other software were now on SSD. I toyed with idea of getting an external caddy for the DVD but in the end, didn't bother as I don't recall the last time I used the DVD drive on my work machine.

In order to maximise storage, I did need to back up the HDD files I wanted to keep to an external HDD so that I could reformat the HDD to get rid of the O/S etc before putting everything back.

The net result was I kept that laptop around a year longer than I would have done.

The whole process was relatively painless and worked so well that I did the same thing with my personal laptop.
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Thanks,
That sounds like something I could definitely do. Is there a kit that can make the DVD easily swappable*? I have been known to experiment and have borked my machines a time or two. Occasionally, probably from fear and dismay, it seems I can only get boot from a DVD. It is kind of a comfort zone. I'm wondering if I'm going to be able to swap that back on the fly (in a panic). :D

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=borked



*Apparently swappable is not a real word. It should be.
 
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Bg260 said:
Is there a kit that can make the DVD easily swappable*?
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Pass. I only looked for caddies that allowed me to replace the DVD drive. The caddie was only held in with a couple of small screws so switching the HDD and DVD only takes a minute or so - not something you'd want to do all the time but every once in a while it wouldn't be too much hassle.
 
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