Crucial M500 960GB best for large SSDs?

[Innova]

I currently have an Asus N81 laptop. It almost 4 years old, but still works good for what I need it to do. I will probably get a new laptop in a year or two, but in the meantime I am low on disk space.
I was thinking about getting a large (>500GB) SSD, that I could use in this laptop, and also the next laptop that I purchase.

I see Crucial now has a 960GB SSD for $600. This seems like a pretty good deal. Are there other SSDs in this price/size available now, or in the near future?

Anything else I should be looking for? The laptop currently has a 3.0GB/s SATA controller.

 

[MrX8503]

Crucial will be the cheapest you're gonna get for a 1TB SSD. I think other 1TB SSDs are close to $1k.

 

[KentState]

Really depends on how much space you need, but he M500 from Crucial is the only economical drive greater than 500GB at this point. There are numerous ~500GB around $350 if you want to save some coin. In a couple years, there will be a lot more options so don't go crazy planning for that far in advance.

 

[Dadofamunky]

I wouldn't do that with a creaky old laptop.

 

[Innova]

I wouldn't do that with a creaky old laptop.

Why not?

 

[philipma1957]

Why not?

Well 600 is a lot of coin you could get a new laptop with much better cpu in it for under 700. you could put in a 1tb hgst travelstar 7200 rpm for 80.

so even though you won't have a big ssd it would be better. also you would have a laptop under warranty


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220510


this asus n81 has a c2d 2.66 cpu = slowwww

 

[lagokc]

If you need a 1TB SSD right now the M500 is the only option that doesn't have an insane pricetag. Maybe in a few months there will be other options.

 

[Innova]

I wouldn't do that with a creaky old laptop.

Well 600 is a lot of coin you could get a new laptop with much better cpu in it for under 700. you could put in a 1tb hgst travelstar 7200 rpm for 80.

so even though you won't have a big ssd it would be better. also you would have a laptop under warranty


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834220510


this asus n81 has a c2d 2.66 cpu = slowwww

I've got the 2.8 Ghz model.

I do understand your point. The issue is that I have two OS and about 180GB of photos on the 320GB HD. Things are pretty tight. I figured the SSD would help performance until I did buy a new laptop, and it wouldn't be money wasted, because when I do buy a new laptop I could get it with a small/cheap drive, and move the SSD to it.

I will have to do some pondering if about 500GB would be enough to last me until I get a new laptop. And then I could by a big SSD at that point, when they should be less expensive.

 

[lagokc]

Do you really need fast access to all of that data wherever you are? You could build a nice 4TB RAID1 Samba server for less than $600...

 

[cantholdanymore]

and about 180GB of photos

You need to start thinking about backup.

 

[Innova]

You need to start thinking about backup.

I do back them up to an external 2TB drive. However, right now, my redundant backup is just a second partition on that external drive (because my laptop drive no longer hold all of them). Which is why I am looking at a larger drive for my laptop.

 

[Innova]

Do you really need fast access to all of that data wherever you are? You could build a nice 4TB RAID1 Samba server for less than $600...

This post got me thinking....are there good hybrid drives available for laptops?

A general hybrid question...what determines which data goes in the SS portion and what goes on the spinning portion? OS? Controller? Drive?

 

[lagokc]

Everything goes in the spinning portion, whatever gets used most frequently also gets duplicated in the flash memory. The next generation Seagate hybrids look pretty good if you have a laptop that's limited to one drive and can't afford a big enough SSD.

 

[Innova]

Everything goes in the spinning portion, whatever gets used most frequently also gets duplicated in the flash memory. The next generation Seagate hybrids look pretty good if you have a laptop that's limited to one drive and can't afford a big enough SSD.

So the drive does this? Ie, whenever a read/write occurs it gets duplicated in the flash portion. Once the flash portion is full, old stuff gets over ridden? I'm sure that is a simplification, but is that approximately how it is done?

Do you have a link to some info on the new Seagate hybrids? When will they be available, sizes, prices, etc?

Thanks!

 

[Herr Kutz]

I've got the 2.8 Ghz model.

I do understand your point. The issue is that I have two OS and about 180GB of photos on the 320GB HD. Things are pretty tight. I figured the SSD would help performance until I did buy a new laptop, and it wouldn't be money wasted, because when I do buy a new laptop I could get it with a small/cheap drive, and move the SSD to it.

I will have to do some pondering if about 500GB would be enough to last me until I get a new laptop. And then I could by a big SSD at that point, when they should be less expensive.

Don't listen to him. I put a Plextor m3 into my core (not 2) duo 2.0ghz laptop, and it is much snappier and plenty for every day tasks.