Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

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Author: Michael Daffin
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?
I would not worry about it any more. They will most likely last longer then
the computer you put them in these days. And by the time it does start to
die in many, many years time the disks will be cheaper and larger and you
will probably be looking for a replacement anyway :)


On 10 February 2013 14:14, Chris Dennis <cgdennis@???> wrote:

> 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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