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On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:53:59 +0100 John Horne <john.horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 17:05 +0100, Neil Winchurst wrote: > > I may be getting a new laptop and one possibility is one with a > > Solid State Drive. I have read many conflicting reports about them. > > Does anyone on the list have any experience of them please? I know > > the size in Gbs will be much smaller but that is not really > > important as I don't use very much. > > > > I am just wondering how reliable they are nowadays, and if they > > really do have advantages such as speed and no noise. > > > Likewise I recently took the plunge and have bought a Lenovo laptop > with an SSD. I have been using an SSD in my (home) PC for a couple of > years now, and the disk is (obviously?) quieter but also the PC is > much faster in booting up and shutting down. On the home PC I have > the O/S on the SSD, and /var and /home on a HDD. I've had no problems > with the SSD at all (not sure who made it) - the laptop has a Samsung > SSD and so far no problems. > > As someone else mentioned, with the Lenovo it is possible to install a > second drive by using a caddy (an 'ultrabay' I think they call it). I > have a CD/DVD writer in there, so no room for a second (HDD) drive. > > I would say use an SSD if you have the choice. > > > > John. > Thanks, I have already decided and the new laptop is being built for me with an SSD. Will comment on it after I have used it for a while. Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq