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Cheapest SSD prices?
lalaland
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Anyone know where to get the cheapest SSD drives for a MacBook Pro from?
Wouldn't mind replacing a 500GB drive with a 400-500GB SSD drive, however I don't want to pay the prices I'm currently looking at.
Most of them seem to be over £300 with the odd one or just just under that. The lowest so far has been £270 for a 480GB model.
The closer to £200 I can get the better if anyone has any recommendations?
Wouldn't mind replacing a 500GB drive with a 400-500GB SSD drive, however I don't want to pay the prices I'm currently looking at.
Most of them seem to be over £300 with the odd one or just just under that. The lowest so far has been £270 for a 480GB model.
The closer to £200 I can get the better if anyone has any recommendations?
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http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/laptop-hard-drives/momentus-xt-hybrid/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-2-5inch-Notebook-Accessory-Norton/dp/B005OK6VJU/ref=sr_1_4?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1353987669&sr=1-4
Don't really need much storage but a would recommend an external 2.5 drive for back ups and extra storage should you require it
These are great
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005A97APO/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&psc=1&s=computers
The standard drives in virtually all laptops tend to be 5400rpm, slow sluggish things. The Momentus XT is a 7200 rpm drive - which on its own gives an appreciable improvement.
And the minor thing that with the 750gig Momentus, its got a fairly large "cache" SSD built in, and works in almost exactly the same way as the "new" Apple hybrid drives - the OS and commonly used applications get moved onto the SSD over a period of time. So you get 90% of the performance of an SSD, but with the storage of a traditional drive.
I just ordered a 128GB M4 for my work laptop, $92 from Amazon after I cashed in my credit card reward points.
I've decided that I'll sacrifice storage space (currently there's a 320GB spinny drive in there) for quadruple the speed. It's so worth it. For any large work stuff I will just store it on an external drive, or keep it on my main work tower PC, since I don't really need it that often.
Seconded. I put the same part, £80 from Amazon, into an elderly (2007) Mac Mini which I needed to squeeze another 18 months out of. It came with a USB/SATA cable which would probably cost at least a tenner, and a license for Ghost which would have been handy had I not been using SuperDuper! It's transformed the machine for performance, it's also running cooler and quieter, and I can recover the disk and re-use it when I finally scrap the machine.
Currently on sale till early Dec in Clas Ohlson stores for just £65!
Originally I'd looked in PC world, but they only sell OCZ, which are trash IMHO.
Didn't notice much speedier start up as my machine has always started fast, but everything else just flies...
Do it!
Best of all, the Marvell controller is very reliable, and was never plagued by firmware problems like the SandForce models.