I want to get a new laptop soon. it is meant to be portable and have at least 4.5 hr battery life. im liking the tm2. i wanna get it with 6 gb memory and at least a 160 gb hard drive with an integrated graphics card. im hoping for a ssd option and the ulv options for extended battery life. this is meant for business/travel. no processor or graphics heavy apps. u think they will be an option soon.
im asking about the ultra low voltage core i5 and i7. their 18 watts to power and include a graphics card on them.

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Im wanting to get a fast hard drive to put in RAID 0 for my OS boot. Ive heard good things about the Western Digital Velociraptor 10,000 RPM hard drive, but also have heard that it gets extremely hot and loud. And of course I have heard that the Solid State drives are just phenomenally fast and keep extremely cool, but yet pretty pricey. HOWEVER, if i went with the WD drive i would get setup on liquid cooling to keep it cool which in the end could be pricey. SO….. which one do i go with, which one is faster or just overall better, disregarding price, someone please help, easy ten points!

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Frozen as in below the freezing temperature.
I was just wondering if this is possible or if anyone has tested this out yet. I can’t find anything on google about it, so I came here.

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I have a dell desktop and i want to know if i can replace my current hard drive with a solid state drive?
My desktop’s O/S got erased a couple of months ago and i repaired it by adding all the necessary drives and programs to fix it from dell.com. My hard drive still doesn’t function properly. Could i buy a solid state drive and use it to replace my current magnetic hard drive? is a SS drive better than a magnetic hard drive?

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It’s the weak link in my chain basing it off Windows Experience Index. I get a 5.9 score for my HD, and my other 4 scores are 7.6 ,7.6 ,7.7 ,7.7

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I was thinking maybe having the operating system (for example windows xp) on a flash drive so I can boot up quickly and also save space on the very limited hard drive….is this possible with an older model computer also??

How difficult is this to do??

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Hello and Thank You for answering my question. I have been reading that computers with solid state hard drives is the future because fast boot times, reliability etc. Anyone care to guess when public might be able to buy such a computer at a reasonable price ? I see one already at Staples but DELL solid state pc cost more than ,000.00 . WOW !

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It would be an Intel Core i7 920 with a 64bit OS and a kick ass video card, basically the lower end of all the best new stuff, so high end compared to anything that’s not the best.
I’ve read some good stuff about these Solid State Drives but I would have to uninstall games when I put in new ones because it’s got a way smaller capacity.
Is it worth it? It’s also 0 and a regular one is about .
If it in any important ways is better, I would pay the extra $.
I hear lag would be a thing of the past, but this is all just from threads.
Which as we all know can be bogus.

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I only knew of the Solid State hard drives until I started looking into a netbook. My netbooks primary use is for note taking in school (highschool) and a back up incase something happens to my main laptop.
So the most the netbook will go though would be word processing and maybe a few other simple programs.

The netbook i’m looking at offers 16 gig solid or 160 gig SATA (w/e that stands for)…. and on my current laptop, I have never reached 15 gigs of hard drive used ever.

Which is better/which should I go for?
I’m planning to store a lot of the files I use/save onto a flash drive that I use for school–If I was to use that and get a SSD with windows, would that be fine?

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I am aware that traditional drives with mechanical parts (IDE and SATA) can not be used, but since SSD’s do not have any mechanical parts that I’m aware of, they would be safe for use in such a setup, right?

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So I have an old laptop (about 4 years old), that still runs well except for it’s hard drive is done. I wanna get a new hard drive for it and possibly put Linux on it (but still considering putting XP back on).

Anyway, the point of my question is… I saw that they have IDE solid state drives (I could afford a 32GB one) that I could put in my laptop instead of getting another mechanical one. Should I do this? I’ve had plenty of bad experiences with mechanical failure of hard drives, so this is very tempting for me although it’s more expensive. Any opinions/suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance!
*its hard drive is done.
icecube –

Thanks for the response. I know what you mean. But also, I want to clarify that this laptop isn’t extremely old. I just wanna reference the original specs to give everyone a better idea: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00248322&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=437061&lang=en

I have upgraded to 1.2GB of RAM, by the way. I currently don’t have the money to invest in a new laptop, and this is my only laptop I have access to right now.

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Does it mean that there are two 160GB Solid State Drives that gives me a capacity of a single 320GB Solid State Drive?

How about
410GB 5400RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (SSD 160GB + 250GB 5400RPM)?

lol i’m not really much of a tech guy

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I’m going to buy a ThinkPad and I can’t make up my mind as to whether to buy it with a Hard Disk Drive or a Solid State Drive. The Solid State Drive is much more convenient but much more expensive and newer, more advanced Solid State Drives are very likely to appear in the near future with much greater capacity. Can I buy the notebook with a Hard Disk Drive and replace it with an SSD as soon as one with higher capacity appears on the market?

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I’m going to buy a ThinkPad and I can’t make up my mind as to whether to buy it with a Hard Disk Drive or a Solid State Drive. The Solid State Drive is much more convenient but much more expensive and newer, more advanced Solid State Drives are very likely to appear in the near future with much greater capacity. Can I buy the notebook with a Hard Disk Drive and replace it with an SSD as soon as one with higher capacity appears on the market?

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