OT: Questions about installing an SSD into my laptop

[Vu Pham]

On 5/18/2013 12:50 PM, Rick Bowers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking to possibly replace my existing hard drive with an SSD
> drive. In spite of googling for information, I'm still confused
> regarding suitability. Folks on this list seem knowledgeable in these
> matters so I'm asking for some guidance here.
>
> I have an HP G60-642NR laptop. It came with the following Hitachi drive:
> http://reviews.cnet.com/internal-hard-drives/hitachi-travelstar-7k500-hts725032a9a364/4507-9998_7-33875493.html
>
> I am considering this Samsung drive:
> http://www.adorama.com/SSG7TD500BW.html?utm_term=Other&utm_medium=Shopping%20Site&utm_campaign=Other&utm_source=pgrabl
>
> My basic questions are:
> - Are these drives compatible? HP.Com gives me no guidance wrt
> upgrading the drive in my laptop
> - Should I look at other drives? Which ones?
> - Price in a big consideration -- is this price reasonable for a
> 500GB drive (I've looked at Pricewatch.com and it seems to be in line.
> - What other considerations should I evaluate?
>
> I'm currently running Windows 7 but am looking to upgrade this to
> Windows 8 (or, possibly, linux -- I know the consensus of this group on that)
>

I often use Crucial SSDs, but recently my notebook's drive failed and I 
found the SSD Samsung Pro Series 256G (MZ-7PD256BW ) has a lot of good 
reviews so I tried it. So far so good. No problems with Windows 7 or Linux.

The Samsung SSD is SATA3. Your Hitachi drive is SATA2, so I guess your 
notebook supports only SATA2. If so, even you do not gain by having your 
drive SATA3, but moving from mechanical drive to SSD is a big gain already.

I think Samsung has 5-year warranty for the Pro-series SSDs . When I 
bought my drive from Newegg, it is said to have 3-year warranty, but 
Samsung site says it has 5-year warranty. I just looked up your model 
and it has 3-year warranty. If warranty time is an important factor to 
you, then you may consider looking at the Pro series.

Vu