Rob Beard wrote: > Adam Bagnall wrote: > > >> If you're thinking of getting the aspire one I'd definitely save the >> extra for the normal HDD version. I'm all for solid state, even if it's >> only 8gb, but the ssd in my aspire one is painfully slow. Even doing >> fairly trivial things sometimes causes the ssd activity light to just >> stay on solidly and the laptop freezes for a few seconds (and it's not >> swapping. 0k swap used). Updates on it are a nightmare because they take >> so long and pretty much render it unusable until they're complete. >> >> Adam >> >> > > Ahh that's not good. I wouldn't really be able to afford a > bigger/quicker SSD, so I guess I'd have to go down the hard drive route > afterall (or buy an additional hard drive to put in afterwards and turn > the 8GB SSD into a big USB drive). > > Rob > > The SSD aspire one is slightly smaller than the HDD one and can't fit a 2.5"hdd in it. You can replace the ssd with a 1.8" hdd providing it has the correct (pata zif) connector though. You can get 30gb 1.8" drives on ebay for around £30, but that defeats the point of buying the cheaper version.
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