Just use what you got. There is no reason to get a branded "SATA 3" cable.
There is basically no difference between a SATA 2 or SATA 3 cable.
Here is some reading for you: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/fe..._down_your_data_transfers_max_pc_investigates
That means, if you got new cables, fine. If you got old ones, fine.
Just make sure they work.
Ah. But isn't cloning from an HDD to an SSD a bad idea, since Windows won't be optimized for the SSD?
This is one of Acronis's specialties. They have some sort of secret sauce where they can image from HDD to SSD and vice versa. This was the reason I got the software in the first place and I can verify that it worked for me when I moved from a small install on a 500gb HDD to a 128 SSD
Tool-less drive bays in notebooks, unless the notebook was made for 7mm drives only.For what do I need this plastic spacer?
Tool-less drive bays in notebooks, unless the notebook was made for 7mm drives only.
Also not that it matters it also means that the M550 and mx100 will have better write endurance than any M500 and the 500GB+ drives in the m550 and MX100 series.
Well . . . . for the $215 price-tag on the MX100 512GB model, I'm reasonably satisfied. CrystalDiskMark shows about 505 seq-read and 490 seq-write, with the test run while the disk controller was also "doing other stuff." So . . .
What I was saying is that each sector on a 256GB MX100 will last longer than a sector on the 512GB in terms of total right. When they shrink the process for the nand chips it basically halves the write endurance, so a nice side affect of using older nand is higher endurance.
That's easy since they make their own memory. It's an older process that has already earned back it original R&D and development costs. Crucial decided that was better for their brand to maintain performance across the whole product line than to have it fluctuate and get a couple more dollars in margin on $70 and $110 drives. It was also important in competing against Samsung who uses a large internal buffer and even system memory to keep the numbers up on their smaller drives.So . . . does this chip-shrink and its effect on write-endurance . . . explain the aggressively-low price-tag?
So . . . does this chip-shrink and its effect on write-endurance . . . explain the aggressively-low price-tag?
That's the who thing the data amount might not shift as much because between better wear leveling tech in controllers and generally the increase in capacity means more sectors for leveling out means their shouldn't be dramatic changes.Crucial haven't changed their 72 TBW warranty on their consumer drives, which includes the MX100. Of course, that doesn't tell how many P/E cycles with the usual 1 year data retention the NAND can actually support.
Not needed unless you're going to operate the SSD in a trim-less environment or going to hammer it with tens of GB of writes daily with little to no free space available.