On 09/02/13 14:00, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> On 8 February 2013 21:50, Imran Chaudhry <ichaudhry@???> wrote:
>> I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian
>> Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup.
>>
>> The laptop is 2006 vintage and has a "spinning rust" SATA drive. Can I
>> just use any SSD SATA laptop drive as a drop-in replacement or do I
>> have to be careful about particular types eg SATA II/III, BIOS
>> incompatibilities etc?
>>
>
> I have that exact same laptop. I put a 7mm SSD in it, and it made an
> amazing difference to the speed of the laptop.
> The only thing you really need to care about with HDD to SSD
> replacement is the height of the HDD, is it 9.5 or 7mm high.
> The 6400 can fit both 7mm and 9.5mm SSD.
> I would advise that you purchase a 7mm SSD because then it is more
> lilely to fit into a new laptop when you eventually need it.
> I put a Crucial M4 7mm in mine.
>
Blocks of storage in SSD drives can only be written a certain number of
times. Is that something to worry about, or does the firmware/software
mitigate that problem these days?
In other words, do SSD drives last just as long as spinning disk drives
under normal use (for some value of 'normal')?
cheers
Chris
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