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Whatever your storage device is, as soon as your usage exceeds capacity, it immediately fails any possible consideration since it won't do the thing you need it to do. Might as well as get something with plenty of storage and live with some amount of sluggishness if that's the case.

Of course, if you can install more than one storage drive without giving up on anything, that'd be ideal!
 
Well i have a laptop and a desktop. The desktop has 4 hardrive slot so i might plan to install 2 SSD and another HDD.

About the laptop, well... its horribly slow. It has 80GB HDD which has slow writing speed. It takes minutes to boot up laptop and programs. The processor however quite ok ( Intel Pentium Dual- Core T2390 )

But is it possible to change the hdd to ssd? Well i gotta buy 80 to 100 GB SSD one.
 
killer150 said:
Well i have a laptop and a desktop. The desktop has 4 hardrive slot so i might plan to install 2 SSD and another HDD.

About the laptop, well... its horribly slow. It has 80GB HDD which has slow writing speed. It takes minutes to boot up laptop and programs. The processor however quite ok ( Intel Pentium Dual- Core T2390 )

But is it possible to change the hdd to ssd? Well i gotta buy 80 to 100 GB SSD one.
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You should be able to for most laptops that come with a HDD in the first place. A 120/128 GB SSD should be a relatively easy drop-in replacement.

However...

Your laptop has a 80 GB HDD in the first place. One does wonder if the storage controller supports SATAII and AHCI, let alone SATAIII...
 
killer150 said:
Well the laptop is a 2008 model and i guess it does not support sata 2 version ......

By the way more hard disk means faster?
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80GB just refers to the storage size. When looking for speed you want to look for the RPM's (e.g. 5400 RPM, 7200 RPM) at which the drive operates if it's a typical HDD. SSD's use flash memory which don't have moving parts inside and are faster than normal HDD's.

speccy can tell you if it's a SATA 2 drive if you're unsure.
 
Dter ic said:
80GB just refers to the storage size. When looking for speed you want to look for the RPM's (e.g. 5400 RPM, 7200 RPM) at which the drive operates if it's a typical HDD. SSD's use flash memory which don't have moving parts inside and are faster than normal HDD's.

speccy can tell you if it's a SATA 2 drive if you're unsure.
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The speed of the HDD is also related to its areal density, so these older drives that have a low areal density will be appreciably slower than a current-generation drive of similar speed.

That does nothing with regard to random access, for the most part, though. For that, you want 7200 RPM or SSD. Even a 7200 RPM drive is enough to not make things feel awful, compared to a 5400 RPM drive.

I finally changed all the wallpapers I use! I think I got tired of my old one.
 
Zach said:
Are there any computers still manufactured with 5400 RMP HDDs these days? Seems like most are now 7200 RPM now.
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I think the cheapest of the cheap-end laptops definitely are. And probably still most low to midrange laptops in general, though I haven't typically been looking at RPMs when shopping for laptops for work since we just go with the same model nearly every time anyway just so it's all standardized.
 
donavannj said:
I think the cheapest of the cheap-end laptops definitely are. And probably still most low to midrange laptops in general, though I haven't typically been looking at RPMs when shopping for laptops for work since we just go with the same model nearly every time anyway just so it's all standardized.
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Hmm I guess it would make sense for lower-end models because they probably wouldn't need to take advantage of 7200 RPM.

Hopefully sooner or later SSDs can became standard and more affordable at larger sizes.
 
Zach said:
Are there any computers still manufactured with 5400 RMP HDDs these days? Seems like most are now 7200 RPM now.

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donavannj said:
I think the cheapest of the cheap-end laptops definitely are. And probably still most low to midrange laptops in general, though I haven't typically been looking at RPMs when shopping for laptops for work since we just go with the same model nearly every time anyway just so it's all standardized.
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In fact, if there's a HDD in a laptop, it probably is a 5400 RPM HDD. Seagate no longer makes 7200 RPM laptop drives; WD does, but it tops out at around 750 GB. There's also HGST and their 1 TB 7200 RPM drives. 5400 RPM HDDs are just much more common among laptops.

7200 RPM HDDs are standard when it comes to desktops, though, but you can also get 5400 RPM HDDs. It's just that it's probably not worth it to get a 5400 RPM unless you're going to use it strictly as data storage.

Zach said:
Hmm I guess it would make sense for lower-end models because they probably wouldn't need to take advantage of 7200 RPM.

Hopefully sooner or later SSDs can became standard and more affordable at larger sizes.
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Maybe in a few years... I don't like how things that need to be stored just keeps getting bigger. At least we're getting somewhere - there used to be a time where 240/250/256 GB SSDs cost a grand.

I'm still sorting out things on this burner laptop right now while I prepare for travel to China.
 
Twiggy said:
7200 RPM HDDs are standard when it comes to desktops, though, but you can also get 5400 RPM HDDs. It's just that it's probably not worth it to get a 5400 RPM unless you're going to use it strictly as data storage.
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I... kinda already knew that, though? 7200 has been the standard in desktops and custom PCs for over a decade. I think every single desktop I've had has used 7200 RPM drives if the drive was SATA, dating back to my first in 2005, which was a hand-me-down that my dad had built in 2003 after he built himself a new one.
 
I really need to get a CD binder and label each and every one of my discs. I was trying to search through a pile of CDs/DVDs for a Vista install CD I made, and I found it thank gosh.

Oh, and I'm reinstalling Vista on my old Compaq laptop for the umpteenth time. For some reason, svchost.exe likes to really leak memory no matter how many times I reinstall Vista on it.
 
Zach said:
I really need to get a CD binder and label each and every one of my discs. I was trying to search through a pile of CDs/DVDs for a Vista install CD I made, and I found it thank gosh.

Oh, and I'm reinstalling Vista on my old Compaq laptop for the umpteenth time. For some reason, svchost.exe likes to really leak memory no matter how many times I reinstall Vista on it.
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Tried checking if it still does that after installing all pending updates?
 
After experiencing the benefits of owning a phone with 3rd party dev support i.e custom ROMs I've come to realize how important it is to me that a phone is either a Nexus or dev friendly so I can be assured that the Android version is up to date and never reliant on the manufacture to do it for me because they hardly ever last.

I'll never buy a Android device without checking XDA on it first.
 
Team Fail said:
I honestly preferred the desktop version over the app. I found it a pain having to switch over to the app just to send and receive messages, and doing a screen split didn't really help either.
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I really wouldn't have a problem with that though :P but my problem is again with Skype for desktop being slow as is and not really working with 1 GB of RAM.
 
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