SSD to Mechanical Hard Drive "Down Grade"? (lenovo x200t)

Hi all,

Searched in the threads and read stickies before posting. Hope my first time post is interesting to some and doesn't break any rules in our community.

I purchased the lenovo x200t about a year ago with all the bells and whistles, including the heralded 64 GB SSD which was $$. (Specs below.) I upgraded to Win7 after it came out for free through Lenovo. It is my only computer, and I use it about 6 h a day for medical school, studying, and media, which is stored on a 1.5TB external.

The issue: Despite diligent pruning, I consistently have only about 1-2 GB of free space on the thing. I tried storing necessary portable media/docs on a HCSD card in the 5-1 reader, but it was clunky. I am regretting "Upgrading" to the smallish drive.

Is my best move now to consider something like this:

Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD7500BPVT 750GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive

and ebay the 64 SSD for a loss, or are there super ninja pro tips that you 64GB SSD adopters use to keep your disks empty? (I clean browser cache, bla bla bla).

I sincerely appreciate any advice.

PS: 64GB SSD for sale?


my specs:
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I know I'm probably gonna catch all grades of flak possible from all the bleeding-edge tech gurus here, but in my opinion, SSD's are overrated for many of us. I don't know about you, but I'm not in THAT big a rush that I'm willing to sacrifice storage space for speed. I've got 2 500GB WD drives in my laptop, similar to the 750GB one you are considering. They are plenty fast enough for me. But I suppose everyone's usage differs, and there are better solutions for others. Maybe a good compromise between storage space and speed would be the Hitachi Travelstar 7K500. 500GB, @7200RPM.

Newegg.com - HITACHI Travelstar 7K500 HD20500 IDK/7K 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive

 

If you don't use your optical drive much, you can consider replacing that with a HDD caddy and dropping a large capacity drive there.

 

Thanks Orinix but there's only an optical drive slot in the ultrabase unit, which lives at home on my desk.

 

My personal vote for a single storage device is the Momentus XT. Awesome drive IMHO. Great storage but still has a bit of juice to it.

I just went with a SF2 for primary in my P7805 and can tell you the XT is no SSD killer but it isn't all that bad either. I don't regret the $300+ on the 120GB as it is consistently FAST. You do however with the XT get quite a boost.

Now that I have a SSD, I'l agree they are a bit over rated. With a fast HDD the difference isn't awe inspiring unless you are doing some major disk intensive tasks. So what is the XT takes 45 seconds to desktop and the SSD only 35 seconds, will 10 seconds kill you or your experience? Comapred to lack of storage though it sure will.............

As a side note the XT stays in my U81a as the single drive solution. Storage and more than ample speed until a viable SSD solution comes along that is somewhat affordable...............

 

I've gone back from SSD to HDD a couple of times. In my opinion HDDs can perform fine. I wouldn't recommend the WD 750GB though. It's relatively slow.

Get the Momentus XT 500GB like TANware recommend or get the next best thing: WD5000BEKT.

Here's a guide on reducing disk space: http://forum.notebookreview.com/win...ws-7-small-possible-freeing-up-diskspace.html

 

Issue solved.

Will likely keep the SSD for now, though I think I'm less likely to be an early adopter of smaller drives in the future.

Went from 1.5 GB free to ~15GB free using the linked guides from Phil. Had already disabled hibernation but now also turned off pagefile and restore points (I backup on the external). Additionally, followed Phils links and used Disktective to find the main culprit: a full 10GB backup of OneNote2010 data in a subfolder. Yeesh...

Thanks all!

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