- Oct 15, 2012
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First off I know a cheap SSD is kind of like an oxymoron. But I was looking to shave off a few dollars if possible.
About me:
Gamer, Average User, Musician.
Budget: Semi-open, try and be as cheap but as reliable as possible.
Lifetime: at least 3 years. I do a lot of web surfing, gaming, and some music creation. I'd say to be on the safe side, I may write about 20-25GB per day to my drive. Not exactly sure how to check that, so I may be way off either way, (way less would be more realistic) but my heaviest days would be installing Windows, drivers. software, and copying my Steam Library over which I'll say at most may happen once a month. And that would be about 300-400GB of Data total. But I've gone 3 months without re-installing everything too as well. I only do it when Windows 'feels' sluggish. I like to play it safe though. So I guess if an SSD Manufacturer 'Assumes' 40GB per day for a 5 year period I'm golden!
When to buy: ASAP but within the next month
Where: Prefer Amazon as I have a few gift cards sitting around with varying amounts that will help pay the overall bill.
Laptop in question for upgrade:
Lenovo Y510p
15.6" 1920x1080p
i7-4700MQ
16GB DDR3 Ram
GT755M 4GB SLI (2x GT755M 2GB)
1TB HDD Hybrid w/ 8GB SSD Cache Built-in
Windows 8.1 x64
Current capacity used: 376GB out of 891GB
There is a 25GB Partition for Drivers and Software, though it is only 3.21GB is in use, and it looks like it could be copied to another drive for simplicity sake. There is also a hidden partition of 13GB for recovery.
I am looking at replacing this slow drive with an SSD and was wondering what capacity to go with?
I have just about everything installed to the laptop now except for my music, which itunes would take up about 100GB give or take a few GB's. (But that could be set aside as well if absolutely needed.) Summer is coming and Steams sales may get me as well. I am open to un-installing the lesser played games to get something new though. But would prefer to keep as much as possible. So I may be looking at 750GB area. I would go with mSATA or m.2 boot drives, but the Y510P I got doesn't have the slot, so it's an all or nothing deal. I do know that just a 128GB SSD would be eaten alive just with the need to install (Windows, drivers, updates, Photoshop, Office suite) and would just be a waste of time on this laptop since it can game.
I also planned on installing Windows 7 x64 to the laptop on the SSD (since I have a psare license) and keeping the HDD in tact for potential warranty repairs. I may try to install Win 8 to it later. But since Lenovo has Win 7 drivers I figure I'll give that a go.
Anyhow, thanks for reading my long post and hopefully I can get some suggestions.
Thanks and have a good day!
About me:
Gamer, Average User, Musician.
Budget: Semi-open, try and be as cheap but as reliable as possible.
Lifetime: at least 3 years. I do a lot of web surfing, gaming, and some music creation. I'd say to be on the safe side, I may write about 20-25GB per day to my drive. Not exactly sure how to check that, so I may be way off either way, (way less would be more realistic) but my heaviest days would be installing Windows, drivers. software, and copying my Steam Library over which I'll say at most may happen once a month. And that would be about 300-400GB of Data total. But I've gone 3 months without re-installing everything too as well. I only do it when Windows 'feels' sluggish. I like to play it safe though. So I guess if an SSD Manufacturer 'Assumes' 40GB per day for a 5 year period I'm golden!
When to buy: ASAP but within the next month
Where: Prefer Amazon as I have a few gift cards sitting around with varying amounts that will help pay the overall bill.
Laptop in question for upgrade:
Lenovo Y510p
15.6" 1920x1080p
i7-4700MQ
16GB DDR3 Ram
GT755M 4GB SLI (2x GT755M 2GB)
1TB HDD Hybrid w/ 8GB SSD Cache Built-in
Windows 8.1 x64
Current capacity used: 376GB out of 891GB
There is a 25GB Partition for Drivers and Software, though it is only 3.21GB is in use, and it looks like it could be copied to another drive for simplicity sake. There is also a hidden partition of 13GB for recovery.
I am looking at replacing this slow drive with an SSD and was wondering what capacity to go with?
I have just about everything installed to the laptop now except for my music, which itunes would take up about 100GB give or take a few GB's. (But that could be set aside as well if absolutely needed.) Summer is coming and Steams sales may get me as well. I am open to un-installing the lesser played games to get something new though. But would prefer to keep as much as possible. So I may be looking at 750GB area. I would go with mSATA or m.2 boot drives, but the Y510P I got doesn't have the slot, so it's an all or nothing deal. I do know that just a 128GB SSD would be eaten alive just with the need to install (Windows, drivers, updates, Photoshop, Office suite) and would just be a waste of time on this laptop since it can game.
I also planned on installing Windows 7 x64 to the laptop on the SSD (since I have a psare license) and keeping the HDD in tact for potential warranty repairs. I may try to install Win 8 to it later. But since Lenovo has Win 7 drivers I figure I'll give that a go.
Anyhow, thanks for reading my long post and hopefully I can get some suggestions.
Thanks and have a good day!
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