On 2013-02-10 09:14, Chris Dennis 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')?
The last article I read regarding life of SSD indicated that an SSD was
more likely to outlive rotating media by a significant factor. Sorry I
can't lay my hands to the link. More later if I re-discover it.
MY 4 year old 901, all SSD, is still going strong though the keyboard
and mouse is getting a bit iffy.
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