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    Dell Vostro 3700 SSD upgrade

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by alinescoo, Jul 6, 2011.

  1. alinescoo

    alinescoo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello, first of all I salute all of you as I am a new comer. This forum is really great.

    I will purchase a refurbished Dell Vostro 3700 with i5 CPU from a local supplier, and has agreed to update my HDD to a SSD drive. Because I don't have too much money, my only choice would me a max 64 GB drive. The suplier recommended me a Kingston SSD Now. I have read a lot of reviews of SSDs and I am a little scared as many seem to fail after a random time. The laptop is used for development and I will make daily backups of my projects. I've looked at Corsair F60, Intel 320 40 GB and OCZ Vertex 2 series. From all the intel seems more reliable over time. Kingstone seems like a old model with poor performance.

    What would you recommend ?
     
    alinescoo, Jul 6, 2011
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    I would go for the Intel drive. I would avoid Vertex 2 completely (you may be the victim of OCZ's 25nm scandal). Or maybe you can pick up an older Intel X25-M G2 80 GB used
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jul 6, 2011
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  3. Phil

    Phil Retired

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    Samsung 470 64GB is the best drive in that category. Fast and reliable.

    Sandforce is fast but not reliable.
     
    Phil, Jul 6, 2011
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    alinescoo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you all for your help. Samsung 470 is not available in my country right now :( I think I'll stick with the Kingston SSDNow V100.
     
    alinescoo, Jul 8, 2011
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