Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-11 Thread Imran Chaudhry
On 11 February 2013 18:51, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: > they were both OCZ Petrol, 64GB (working), and 128GB (dead) > Interesting. I have only ever owned one SSD which was a couple of years back: an OCZ Petrol 40G (but used from eBay). It seems to work OK for a few weeks and then suddenly died. Fro

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-11 Thread Paul Freeman
On 2013-02-11 18:51, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: they were both OCZ Petrol, 64GB (working), and 128GB (dead) ahh yeh OCZ have had more then their fair share of SSD issues :) particularly ATA errors cropping up and firmware issues etc, that said most of the SSD manuacturers had to release firmwa

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-11 Thread Alan Pope
On 11/02/13 18:41, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: My anecdotal evidence of two SSDs is 50/50 - that one (64GB) has lasted 8 months and is still alive. The other (128GB) lasted 2 months and "died a horrid lethal death of the fatal kind that one doesn't recover from" - i.e. it spews file-system and ATA er

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-11 Thread Daniel Llewellyn
they were both OCZ Petrol, 64GB (working), and 128GB (dead) On 11 February 2013 18:48, Paul Freeman wrote: > On 2013-02-11 18:41, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: > >> On 11 February 2013 01:25, wrote: >> >> The last article I read regarding life of SSD indicated that an SSD was >>> more likely to out

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-11 Thread Paul Freeman
On 2013-02-11 18:41, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: On 11 February 2013 01:25, wrote: The last article I read regarding life of SSD indicated that an SSD was more likely to outlive rotating media by a significant factor.  Sorry I can't lay my hands to the link.  More later if I re-discover it. MY

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-11 Thread Daniel Llewellyn
On 11 February 2013 01:25, wrote: > The last article I read regarding life of SSD indicated that an SSD was > more likely to outlive rotating media by a significant factor. Sorry I > can't lay my hands to the link. More later if I re-discover it. > > MY 4 year old 901, all SSD, is still going s

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-10 Thread jlk
On 2013-02-10 09:14, Chris Dennis wrote: On 09/02/13 14:00, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: On 8 February 2013 21:50, Imran Chaudhry wrote: I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup. The laptop is 2006 vintage and ha

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-10 Thread Michael Daffin
I would not worry about it any more. They will most likely last longer then the computer you put them in these days. And by the time it does start to die in many, many years time the disks will be cheaper and larger and you will probably be looking for a replacement anyway :) On 10 February 2013

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-10 Thread Imran Chaudhry
Hi Tony, hijacking my own thread a little but you mentioned Netbooks... What do you run on it and does it do it well? I am toying with the idea of a used Netbook as lightweight, space-server alternative to my Dell Inspiron. Something like an Acer Aspire One series D260 or D270 (both have well sup

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-10 Thread Paul Freeman
On 2013-02-10 14:14, Chris Dennis wrote: On 09/02/13 14:00, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: On 8 February 2013 21:50, Imran Chaudhry wrote: I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup. The laptop is 2006 vintage and ha

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-10 Thread Tony Wood
They usually come with a spacer/adapter. Works fine in my netbook. Tony Wood On 10/02/13 14:14, Chris Dennis wrote: On 09/02/13 14:00, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: On 8 February 2013 21:50, Imran Chaudhry wrote: I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when D

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-10 Thread Chris Dennis
On 09/02/13 14:00, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: On 8 February 2013 21:50, Imran Chaudhry wrote: I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup. The laptop is 2006 vintage and has a "spinning rust" SATA drive. Can I just

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-09 Thread Paul Freeman
On 2013-02-09 14:00, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: The only thing you really need to care about with HDD to SSD replacement is the height of the HDD, is it 9.5 or 7mm high. The 6400 can fit both 7mm and 9.5mm SSD. I would advise that you purchase a 7mm SSD because then it is more lilely to fit in

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-09 Thread Imran Chaudhry
Brill - thanks very much for the info James & others. I'll check out the Crucial brand of SSDs. I feel the HDD is the "weak point" in my laptop as it's more than enough in the other departments (Dual-core CPU, VT-x extensions, 2G RAM, Intel graphics) for what I do with it. On 9 February 2013 14:

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-09 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 8 February 2013 21:50, Imran Chaudhry wrote: > I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian > Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup. > > The laptop is 2006 vintage and has a "spinning rust" SATA drive. Can I > just use any SSD SATA laptop drive as a drop-i

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-09 Thread Richard Bensley
Upgrade your bios if possible just to make sure. After you have found out what SATA version you require, measure your current laptop hard drive. Generally laptop HD's are slimmer than 2.5" drives found in servers and desktops. For example, this SSD is 7mm think, they tend to range between 7mm and

Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-08 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
On Friday 08 Feb 2013 21:50:55 Imran Chaudhry wrote: > I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian > Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup. > > The laptop is 2006 vintage and has a "spinning rust" SATA drive. Can I > just use any SSD SATA laptop drive as a d

[Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-08 Thread Imran Chaudhry
I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup. The laptop is 2006 vintage and has a "spinning rust" SATA drive. Can I just use any SSD SATA laptop drive as a drop-in replacement or do I have to be careful about particular