SSD Drives

[5speedin2.3]

Originally Posted by dankhimself

I bet that thing is like a different computer with that drive. Just a question: Did you use the laptop a lot without the charger? I wonder how much better the battery life is without having to spool up a mechanical hard drive. Hopefully you're a nut like me and test things like this.

Everything opens as soon as I click it vs having to wait a second or two with the 7200rpm drive.

As far as the battery life goes, it only went up by +/- 30minutes.
I leave the 750GB drive unmounted so it doesn't spin.

[mjonesjr]

Mine opens programs the same way, within 1-2 seconds. I can go from being completely off to running Chrome and Outlook in about 15-20 seconds.

My battery life improved dramatically. I went from about 2 hours on the 7200 RPM drive to about 4 hours on the SSD. That is normal internet surfing.

FYI, it is VERY hard on laptop batteries to be plugged in all the time.

[dankhimself]

Originally Posted by mjonesjr

Mine opens programs the same way, within 1-2 seconds. I can go from being completely off to running Chrome and Outlook in about 15-20 seconds.

My battery life improved dramatically. I went from about 2 hours on the 7200 RPM drive to about 4 hours on the SSD. That is normal internet surfing.

FYI, it is VERY hard on laptop batteries to be plugged in all the time.

That's a huge improvement, awesome. My desktop is about the same to google with the ssd.

Without any cooling the batteries get smoked, absolutely. Mine has dual fans and I put taller rubber feet on the bottom, I do leave it plugged in since its an xps with 3 speakers and a graphics card. With the fans on full, while gaming, it'll kill a fresh battery within 30 minutes. I'm basically running off of the 150 watt charger (most newer chargers are 60 watts, or less. This one wont even boot if it recognizes a charger under 150 watts), but she's 5 years old, and needs a ton of juice. As long as I keep the battery cool it's fine. On other laptops, its totally true.

[5speedin2.3]

The battery on my MacBook Pro stays around room temperature once it's done changing.

My battery has over 900 cycles and I still get 4-6hrs.
Once with the 7200rpm drive I got close to eight hours while on a trip (four movies).

[dankhimself]

Oh yea, my laptop is old, has a 17" screen, two blaster fans and has the high performance parts of its time, which just eat power. once they really started focusing on power consumption, battery life went through the roof haha. Im pretty much screwed if that thing isn't plugged in. Im probably going to get a Sager as my next portable pc. They have dual gfx cards and all the goodies needed to rip up the newer games. My Lappy even has those xps led lights on the case and lip that light up the logos and stuff haha. Its a funny computer.

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[Captain Ledd]

Got my SSD installed the other day, shortly after this thread Newegg had a deal on a 120gb SSD. Seeing as I haven't come close to filling the 160GB hd that my computer came with I figured what the hell. Besides, I have the 1TB external for bulk storage.

Definitely loads faster. Haven't had a chance to check on the power consumption, but I know the SSD itself takes a whole lot less wattage than the original was listed for (on paper at least). It also runs noticeably cooler.

The only problem is my computer is only sata 2, even though the drive is rated for Sata 6. So I'm limited to only about 230-250 mb/sec for read/write (As opposed to 500-550 mb/sec with Sata 6) I guess I'll have to settle for moving a gig of information in 4 seconds instead of 2 :'(