Samsung Series 7 Chronos Solid State Drive

Has anyone have any clue if I can change the 750GB HDD for a SSD? Does the laptop have a SSd slot? Cause a SSD inside this thing would do glorious things for me. And by the way whats this Express Cache thing?

 

So yeah. I'm gonna answer my own question. "Express Cache", which ensures fast booting. Like a case sticker correctly states, the Windows desktop appears after about 19 seconds. This is made possible by a small, eight GB SSD from SanDisk (iSSD P4).

So guess it means you get the same speed as a SSD but also get the 750GB HDD in your computer??? Or am I wrong?

 

Not exactly. Expresscache SSD helps you speed up some programs and boot with w/e is added to the Expresscache SSD. If you install your own SSD then everything you put in that SSD you install will be fast. In other words expresscache helps speed up few essential things you use the most but not everything. Expresscache is like for users who want faster speed of HDD but does not want to pay the price for a SSD.

 

To answer the original question: You can change the HDD for an SSD. The basic hardware is interchangeable although we are now getting 7mm and 9.5mm versions of these devices. Your 750GB HDD will be 9.5mm thick.

John

 

So I bought the Samsung and replace HDD with a 256g SSD but system bios won't recognize the SSD drive. The SSD drive works great in my older Lenovo. Not sure what I'm doing wrong...

 

Try reconnecting again. The port is not fixed, so could be loose.

Heck, I think this notebook can support desktop 3.5" HDDs.

 

I tried reconnecting but no go... It is a IBM branded SSD that I put in my Lenovo. I figured I would try to just swap it into the Samsung and than once the bios see's it see if it will boot the Win7 that I used on the Lenovo. Long shot but would save me from loading new OS but not even recognized in Bios.

 

I used a Lenovo/IBM part- an Intel 320 series 160GB SSD in a previous unit - and it worked. There is no whitelist for drives. Perhaps clean the gold contacts with soft eraser and try again?

 

Did it show up in the bios for you? I will try again...

 

Also did you use the Samsung restore utility or just load a new copy of Win7?

 

I just plug and play. Did not reinstall my windows, but it was a clean install from my desktop.

 

I tried again and no success , Perhaps the difference between you and I is the model of the laptop... I have model number NP700Z5B-W01UB which I got from best buy. It has 6g ram and 750g HD with no SSD. I only paid $829 for it and I wanted the next model up which has the 8g SSD along with the standard Hard drive but cost over $1k. So I figured I could just put in my own SSD drive since I already owned one.

At this point I am very frustrated though and may return the laptop because I really really want to utilize my SSD drive instead of it collecting dust so perhaps another brand laptop or different model Samsung will solve the problem.

 

Z5B is the Smaller 15 inch? I have not seen that here.

 

I just bought the same today from Best Buy. First thing I did was put in my old Vertex 2 SSD and it worked right out the gate, no issues at all so far. So maybe some sort of incompatibility or bad ssd?

This model is same as other 15.6" just less ram and weaker 6490m. No sad cache either but I got ssd. Also no backlighting.

 

I know I'm digging up an old thread here, but I thought it would be more appropriate to ressurect this one given its relevancy , rather than open a new, redundant thread just so it's current.

I've got a Series 7 quad-core 8GB RAM model with the 1TB drive (a Samsung HN-M101MBB, FYI).

This weekend I removed the stock HDD and swapped in an OCZ Agility 3 120GB SSD. This is a SATA III-capable drive.

From all accounts, I've read the Series 7 DOES support SATA III.

The weird bit is, I use CrystalDiskMark and AS SSD to bench the drive, and consistently get about 200MB/s read, 100MB/s write. Of course I'd expect these values to be much higher, especially since this is a decent-performing drive.

The numbers coming from OCZ mention "as measured using ATTO Benchmark Utility"... well, running that utility seems to utilize files between 0.5MB and 5MB (yes, megabyte) to test... and as file size gets larger, performance seems to get better, approach 400+MB read speeds... well, thats funny because no other bench utility seems to use files of that size.

I use a Samsung 830 SSD in my desktop, and it's a pretty beefy setup otherwise (AMD quad-core Phenom, 16GB RAM), and I can use CrystalDisk to bench over 430MB reads on a SATA III connection, so I know it can't be "the nature of CrystalDisk" to report lower speeds than other apps...and both CrystalDisk and AS SSD report consistent results on the laptop...

Wondering if I'm overlooking something here?

 

the Series 7 only has Sata II. The chipset supports sata III, but samsung chose to use Sata II ports.

 

Is there any official confirmation of this?

 

well that is what the samsung support told me after my Samsung 830 benched at Sata II speeds.