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I'm curious as to whether or not anyone has actually replaced their existing hard drive with that of the new Solid State Drives(SSD)? And if so, what is their experience so far?
These things still cost a great deal, compared to regular hard drives, but they are supposed to be lightning fast, which can make a Plain Jane computer act like a high performance machine.
And here is something else. I have been noticing that new gaming machines tend to have two hard drives on board the machines. The main one is the SSD, and the information storage drive is a regular hard drive. And too, the ones I have seen so far are not using the 7200rpm drives either. All I am seeing are 5900rpm drives for storage. Is there a good reason for this, because the SSD makes up for the slower spin of the secondary hard drive?
I just purchased a refurbished HP Pavilion p7-1235 AMD Fusion A8-5500 Quad-Core 3.2GHz 8GB 1TB. Its not the highest performance AMD, which is the FX Steamroller, but the FX has had some performance problems. So I went with a less expensive quad core unit that is still in production. I was figuring that perhaps a 120-128Gig SSD, supplemented with a much larger drive for volume storage, would make a good bit of difference.
Any suggestions, testimonials, or recommendations? I have already paid for the HP, and it is shipped. So I can't change my mind there. And I sort of have this thing in my heart for AMD(the little guy). Plus, HP does a nice job of placing all their necessary recovery information directly on the hard drive, instead of expecting the owner to go out and download/the recovery discs(Gateway)
Oh, I just purchased/upgraded my copy of Acronis TrueImage to the 2013 Home edition. Cloning discs will be no problem. If this works, I will probably do this to my other machine too.
And lastly, does anyone know of a site that fully explains all this? I've found articles and videos on how to clone to the SSD, but nothing about having/using the combo drives mentioned above. I'm sure some place has all this available.
These things still cost a great deal, compared to regular hard drives, but they are supposed to be lightning fast, which can make a Plain Jane computer act like a high performance machine.
And here is something else. I have been noticing that new gaming machines tend to have two hard drives on board the machines. The main one is the SSD, and the information storage drive is a regular hard drive. And too, the ones I have seen so far are not using the 7200rpm drives either. All I am seeing are 5900rpm drives for storage. Is there a good reason for this, because the SSD makes up for the slower spin of the secondary hard drive?
I just purchased a refurbished HP Pavilion p7-1235 AMD Fusion A8-5500 Quad-Core 3.2GHz 8GB 1TB. Its not the highest performance AMD, which is the FX Steamroller, but the FX has had some performance problems. So I went with a less expensive quad core unit that is still in production. I was figuring that perhaps a 120-128Gig SSD, supplemented with a much larger drive for volume storage, would make a good bit of difference.
Any suggestions, testimonials, or recommendations? I have already paid for the HP, and it is shipped. So I can't change my mind there. And I sort of have this thing in my heart for AMD(the little guy). Plus, HP does a nice job of placing all their necessary recovery information directly on the hard drive, instead of expecting the owner to go out and download/the recovery discs(Gateway)
Oh, I just purchased/upgraded my copy of Acronis TrueImage to the 2013 Home edition. Cloning discs will be no problem. If this works, I will probably do this to my other machine too.
And lastly, does anyone know of a site that fully explains all this? I've found articles and videos on how to clone to the SSD, but nothing about having/using the combo drives mentioned above. I'm sure some place has all this available.