Customer Reviews Of Transcend TS64GSSD25-M 2.5" 64GB PATA MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

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Customer Reviews for Transcend TS64GSSD25-M 2.5" 64GB PATA MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - Retail
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Yogi Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/30/2010 11:12:56 AM Excellent Results Pros: IDE interface - (for my purpose) High quality product Easy to install Works as advertised - (See their website) Cons: Cost Other Thoughts: I purchased this drive as an upgrade to an older Compaq Presario 2500 running XP SP2 in 1 Gb RAM. The former hard drive dates back over 4 years from a rebuild after a drive failure. Old HD was 4200rpm 60Gb. I installed all the tweaks I could find online that seemed to make sense relating to limiting writes. The most fun was putting in a small ramdisk to send browser temp writes to. (32-64 Mb size is plenty) The results have been excellent. I'm now running XP SP3 in one partition and the overall speed seems about 2 - 3X faster. Newegg got the drive to me in 3 business days. I installed it the day I got it. Yeah! Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
ETK Tech Level: high Ownership: more than 1 year	1/28/2010 8:31:48 AM solid, but very slow write speeds Pros: Solid state, IDE interface for older machines. Cons: The write speeds on this are VERY poor, and, in general, it's a lot more sluggish than I would expect an SSD to be, on reads as well as writes. Other Thoughts: I'm using this on an older laptop, but it's hard to believe how slow this is compared to the several hard drives I've also used in the system. It takes a long, long time to get completely into the Windows XP desktop to a point where it's actually responsive (well over 3 minutes after POST completion), and it takes ages to install anything because write speeds are so bad. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
shadoh Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/7/2010 7:46:41 AM Great little drive Pros: Fast, zero config problems, IDE interface (I consider this a Pro because IDE SSDs are hard to come by!) Cons: Price/Gig, even when compared to other SSDs. I understand SSDs are more expensive than spindle drives, but IDE SSDs are even more so. Almost two hundred bucks for less than 64GB of useable space is a little silly, but at least I was able to breathe new life into an older and otherwise less-than-useful laptop. Other Thoughts: I put this into an older HP laptop (Pentium 4-M, 2GB RAM) replacing a 5400rpm spindle drive, and it runs like a new PC. I installed Vista to see how it would run and decided to keep it on there. Vista is running perfectly snappy in this older laptop thanks to this hard drive. The size makes it a little prohibitive, especially for people who like to download lots of "stuff", but Vista, Office 2007, IE8, Norton Internet Security, and a host of plug-ins are running perfectly fast on this 3+ year-old laptop. Time will tell how it holds up over the months and years, but so far, I am very, very happy with this drive and I would definitely recommend it. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
alifea Tech Level: average Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/1/2010 1:40:17 PM Very Nice SSD Pros: Improved my wife's Compaq R3038CL laptop startup and shutdown times significantly, now takes about 32 seconds from cold button start to windows running without hourglass. Shutdown is 10 seconds to total off. Previous times were well over a minute to start and at least 30 seconds to shutdown. Was easy to install. Install time seemed to be about what I am used to for this Compaq laptop with XP. Cons: Imaged drive after install with Acronis TI 10 and it took close to an hour to do the image and validation. It was expected based on other reviewer comments for MLC based SSDs. Other Thoughts: Did all the tweaks that were recommended by Shawn's post. Also read about offsetting the XP installation partition (referred to as aligning) but it seemed too difficult to do without another machine to install the drive into, and I don't have an adaptor to let me install it in my desktop to play around with. Was somewhat uncertain about spending the money with high cost/GB price of the drive, but it was well worth the investment from a performance improvement standpoint. Original Hitachi 60GB 5400 rpm drive worked just fine, but was definitely slower. Expect that complaints about speed will be few and far between now with the SSD. Would be nice if there were other manufacturers that provided SSDs with PATA interface, but Transcend makes a good product and I would definitely buy it again. Highly recommend this drive to anyone looking to speed up an older laptop that uses PATA drive. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	12/15/2009 10:39:02 AM Very Nice Pros: Ok, Fast, Fast reads. Decent writes. Centrino CPU, 1 Gig Ram, IDE HD I moved my HD image from a 5400 highly defragged HD using Linux and dd. Boots were taking 5-6 minutes, and Quickbooks 3-4 minutes to load. Now I boot completely in under 2 minutes and Quickbooks opens in under 2 minutes. Due to the defrag program I use, the drive initially burped a couple of times, but now I have opened and run for a week, it is very fast. Cons: I don't like that I had issues after running a fragmentation program. Disk Duplicator in Linux has never given me a Hard Drive with issues. That being said, now I love it. Other Thoughts: Very little heat. Almost none. My previous Hard Drive would get very hot. Battery time is better. Did I say it was fast. Open any application which took a while and hello, little wait. I use a professional disk defragmentor that Microsoft developers use. It make a good thing even better Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Ian Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	11/10/2009 7:12:26 AM SSD Pros: fast read rate, lightweight, simple setup. Cons: not enough online material for mac installation Other Thoughts: This is the second time I try the ssd on powerbook g4 titanium dvi. The harddisk originally is 4200rpm and has no pin to indicate whether it is master or slave. without pin on the original HD, I thought it was in slave mode. With SSD in slave mode, it has issue from sleep and detection(cannot get into firewire mode from boot), but once with the pin setting the slave into master mode, it is all good. It appear the default apple HD has some special formware in it, and I did not find any info on putting the Transcend SSD into the powerbook. Notice the system profiler will give unit ID as 0 for the default disk, if you set the SSD in slave mode, it will read unit: 1 instead of 0. Make sure the HD is set in master mode and it should work fine. No awake from sleep trouble, very fast, a 3X increase in xbench HD score. 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Davideo Tech Level: average Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	9/19/2009 7:29:45 AM Works well in Thinkpad Pros: I guess my ('04) IBM R40e Thinkpad had been loaded down by years of 'pewter sludge and got to the point of being slow as molasses, even after all the usual fixing attempts. Reloading the OS with the IBM recovery discs was a no-go [some error message], so I loaded the SSD with my new [spare] XP Pro disc. I was quite pessimistic about whether the laptop would play nice with this drive, I've gotta say- this SSD rocks! Easy, straight-forward installation and then applying Shawns tweaks mentioned above, it just works. And no more worries [EVER] about head-crashing [the laptop's, not human] when the planes hit bad air turbulence. Cons: Reportedly slow write speeds, but nothing really noticeable here. Yet.... Other Thoughts: It's unfortunate I couldn't make any fair speed comparisons for this upgrade, because the fresh XP installation will [usually] naturally have every advantage over a previously decrepit one. Recommend making a careful sketch of the orientation of the aluminum plate on the old drive before removing it. Wish it could have been SLC at this size, oh well.. 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	9/4/2009 11:43:21 PM mixed bag Pros: I bought this drive to se if I could improve the performance of my ancient PIII 1.2ghz Sony PCG-R505 laptop. I have upgraded almost every component on this laptop over the 7+ years that I have owned it. The harddrive that this SSD replaced was a 100gig 7K RPM drive. Program response time has increased by a lot but installing programs takes longer than before but that is to be expected with this type of SSD. Overall, I am happy with this new drive because the system is overall faster even though installing programs is a lengthy ordeal but it is worth it for older laptops and especially if the laptop cannot support drives larger than 120gig like mine. Cons: none Other Thoughts: nice upgrade, small but fast. if my laptop could support larger drives then I would have gone for big and slow rather than small but fast. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Shawn Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	6/8/2009 8:14:16 AM Works well for a cheap SSD. Pros: Breathed new life into my old Sony VAIO laptop: 2.6GHz P4, 1GB RAM, 60GB 4200rpm (ugh), some kind of ATi video card. Old HDD topped out at ~25MB/s sustained read, new SSD tops out at ~70MB/s. Loads Photoshop 7.0 in <5 seconds. Cons: Random-write speed isn't so hot, but doesn't stall the machine like some cheaper SSDs supposedly do. No built-in TRIM function to clear unused memory when idle, and doesn't appear to have upgradeable firmware, but I'm not 100% sure about this. Other Thoughts: TWEAKS YOU NEED TO MAKE (look them up online): - Disable write-caching. - Disable prefetching. - Set memory usage to favor system cache. - Disable background defragmentation. - Set pagefile to fixed size (I recommend 1GB). - Disable hard disk power management. One of the inherent downfalls with MLC-based SSDs is that it takes longer to read/write each slot in memory because each slot holds two bits instead of one, but MLC is also a lot cheaper so it's getting the most R&D to improve its performance. I wouldn't put this drive into a new computer, not least because a new computer could use SATA instead of IDE, but for an old machine (especially an old machine with a slow 4200rpm or 5400rpm hard drive), it's a significant improvement even though it bogs down when writing lots of small files. Would buy again. 11 out of 11 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
boojummy Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	6/3/2009 5:06:49 PM Nice disk Pros: Very fast disk-- it's a nice speed boost for an aging MSI MEGABOOK S260 Pentium M laptop. Actually, the machine feels more like a recent machine with this update. We use SSDs on some of our machines at work, but those machines are already so fast that the speed difference is hard to notice, but with this old laptop (running Windows and Ubuntu), the difference is very clear. My first impression is good. Cons: Could be cheaper. Other Thoughts: I know that PATA is going out of style, but it's exactly in machines with this interface where these kinds of disks will make a big difference. Hopefully PATA SSDs will be around for awhile longer. 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Tuba Terry Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 month to 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	5/23/2009 5:34:56 PM Nice! Pros: This thing is snappy! I bought it to replace a dead 5400 RPM drive for an aging tablet and it was very much worth it! Boot times are between 15 and 30 seconds faster, menu icons/folder listings are almost instantaneous. Random-access stuff is ridiculously fast for IDE. Benchmarked with 16 GB test files using dd: 75-80 MB/s reads, 30-50 mb/s writes. My old drive must have been a power hog too, as I get another 15-20 minutes of battery life out of it with no other changes. The whole tablet is noticeably lighter, and I feel a lot less worried about bumping it around without that hard drive in it. +High speed +low power consumption +(Slightly) lighter than a HDD Cons: This isn't exactly a huge amount of space, but it's SSD, what do you expect? IDE's getting phased out. I wouldn't bother spending this much money on something that can be upgraded to SATA. To be fair, none of these cons are directly attributable to faults of the drive itself, just the interface and technology. -Expensive -Low size Other Thoughts: The high price and old interface limit it to applications where it's infeasible to upgrade to SATA. In those applications though, the speed increase and power savings far outweigh the costs. 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
MPC2500 Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	5/14/2009 12:13:41 AM NOT A BAD CHOICE FOR NOW Pros: JUST INSTALLED IT ON A AKAI MPC2500 SAMPLER. SO FAR IT WORKS JUST FINE. I WAS SENDING A 60MB FOLDER (WITH SOUND SAMPLES IN IT) FROM MY COMPUTER TO THE SSD VIA USB. LOADING WINDOW SHOWED 340KB/SEC DURING THE TRANSFER. NOT SURE IF THAT WAS A RELIABLE WAY TO TEST THE SPEED YET... IT WORKS PRETTY FAST WITH THE SAMPLER ALMOST INSTANT LOADING OF MUSIC MIDI DATA AND SAMPLES. Cons: PRICE. FOR $185 IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN 128GB AT LEAST.... Other Thoughts: TIME WILL TELL ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE BUT FOR NOW IT WORKS OK. PRICE WAS THE REASON WHY I TOOK AN EGG OUT ROM THE RATING. 1 out of 5 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
bchoor Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month	5/4/2009 11:02:38 PM WOW Pros: Very fast, and quiet (no noise) I have an old HP nc6000, 1.6Ghz centrino w/ 2GB DDR RAM. I was able to load Windows 7 Beta - it takes 53 secs to boot up from the time I press the "On" switch. Any of the office 2007 apps load instantly, WMP (takes 0.5 secs), Media center (takes 3 secs), PAINT.NET instantly, I was amazed - I press and "bam" it's there. I have an i7 box with 7200, and the first run usually is much slower than this; waiting for the prices for bigger drives to go down so I can get it on that box. Cons: a little warm to the touch, worried me at first, but then I read that this was normal had to go through a few tweaks on W7; can't get Jaunty to load up properly, need to figure out the tweaks, or may laptop is too old Other Thoughts: W7(beta) install was a little slow at first (the first percent took almost 5 mins) - I began to think that maybe this was a bad purchase, but then it took up; I would think that it maybe a hair slower than the 4200 drive HDTach gave it 80MB/s sustained write. on ATTO I got max 40MB/s write (@ 32k blocks), and 77MB/s read (@ 64k blocks). I'm guessing with the tweaks, the random write is not a big deal. Anyone looking for a way to revive an old computer that only takes ATA - definitely look at this one, I believe they have a larger one as well. Wish I had gotten this earlier! 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	4/14/2009 8:07:30 PM Good upgrade for my powerbook Pros: I have a Powerbook and I was looking for ways to upgrade it and this SSD worked out great. Sometimes I can't tell if my notebook is on because there is no sound what so ever, that's until the fan kicks in. Prior to this I got the 32gb SSD and replaced the drive in the PhotoBucket device. It's the stand alone device that copies your camera's memory. And I noticed a significant improvement. Cons: N/A Other Thoughts: Always back up your data. 1 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
PC PETE Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 month to 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	3/29/2009 9:19:22 AM Good SSD IDE drive Pros: Purchased several of these IDE SSD drives and they have worked very well at speeding up older laptops. Great for longer battery run times as well. Cons: No cons with the drives. I would give it 5 eggs except they are not in stock in New Jersey. I wish New Egg would keep all of their items in stock in the New Jersey warehouse otherwise why have this warehouse for us east coast customers? 0 out of 7 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Ricky Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	3/22/2009 7:21:52 PM Love it so far Pros: Easy to install. Plug in right into my old Sony notebook PCG505BX. It works like a charm. It revitalizes my old laptop. With windows7, my old battery can work longer. It takes less than 30sec to bootup (versus more than 2 mins with my old 4200rpm harddisk in WinXP). Love it so far. Cons: Little bit slow in installing programs. Other Thoughts: If the price drops more, I will get another for my desktop. 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 month to 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	3/22/2009 7:09:40 PM Din Wha (DN WAA) Pros: Makes a great paperweight! Or an external USB drive... BTW, Newegg's service was outstanding --- as usual! But it can't save this SSD. Cons: No tech support, despite answering every question from "techs". A non-techie who is not versed in this particular area (SSD's) doesn't stand a chance of replacing a spinning HDD with this SSD.....Even Acronis stated they can't help! Ghost does not (yet) work with SSD's --- especially with the special "routing/wear-leveling" firmware in the device. If you're willing to take a chance on questionable freeware/shareware/Tojanware, then you MIGHT get lucky. With no software from the manufacturer, this SSD is Not Ready For Prime Time. I'd say give them a few years, or buy a pre-installed SSD in a laptop --- let the laptop guys deal with the idiosyncracies.... Other Thoughts: "Din Wha" = Does Not Work As Advertised.....Actually quite common nowadays.... 0 out of 10 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
ypChuck Tech Level: average Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	3/17/2009 9:57:17 AM Great in Dell 8600 Laptop Pros: Seems fast; NO noise; cooler temps; easy install. Cons: None so far. Other Thoughts: Very happy with this replacement for my OEM 40GB HD. Since it runs cooler than a traditional HD, the fan kicks on FAR less than before - so quiet now. Win XP Pro sp2 boot times are noticeably faster. Restored my HD data using Norton Ghost 2003 version and a 3 year old ghost image - no problems. 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
mbrat Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	2/26/2009 7:25:37 AM Research! Pros: Inexpensive (for SSD), zippy, no noise, works as expected. Cons: See "Other thoughts" Other Thoughts: First off I have to say... do your research. I knew the possible problems when I ordered. I knew what to expect. I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop. Paid top dollar back in 2004 for Pent4, 1GB ram, and 60GB 7200rpm drive. It should have been QUICK! It was a dog.:-( Replacing the HD with SSD was an excellent choice for me. Sure, I do have 'stutters' from time to time, but I get that on my desktop running an AMD Phenom and 4 500GB drive in Raid. (but I think that's Vista for you). Who here hasn't had email open, IE open, and tried to open something like Photoshop and not had a hang? I think the difference is, these drives 'stutter' in different places than spinning drives. But, do the research and do the tweaks! This drive, for this application, was the best upgrade I have ever done. When the SSD's capacity increases and prices drop, I'll be switching over the desktop asap! 2 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 month to 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	2/10/2009 6:35:28 AM Pros: this guy is pretty fast, i'm getting reads of 40mb/s and writes of 15mb/s (this was over a usb adaptor). Cons: the drive often stalls when trying to open internet explorer, which makes this not such a great drive. i will probably be putting the spinning drive back into my laptop and reserve this one for my external drive. 1 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Dr Hardware Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: less than 1 day	2/5/2009 10:44:06 AM ZV6000 SSD Follower Pros: SSD has obvious advantage in seek times Cons: Random reads and writes Other Thoughts: ZV6000 owner, SSD Follower, is lucky one since his laptop has socket 939 desktop processor and can be upgraded with any single core S939 processor (Athlon, Opteron, FX) Nowdirect has Opteron 152 (2.6GHZ) for sixty 2 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
New SSD Follower Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/30/2009 5:57:25 AM Dinosaur Laptop Refurb Pros: This was the single most impressive upgrade I've made to any laptop. I went from a zv6000, not even ale to run vista, to a zv6000 that not only runs it, but runs it well. Web pages pull up in a second, applications pull up at least 5x as fast. I expected improvement, and I definately got it. I used the suggested Vista tweaks, which are easy to accomplish, and the drive rates a 5.8. Cons: Too bad my poor processor is maxed out every time I do anything. If only I could find a laptop that would allow me to upgrade the processor. Other Thoughts: Newegg rocks, as usual! 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
DH Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/29/2009 6:25:42 PM It's OK Pros: No moving parts, so hopefully durable. Quiet. Some read-processes very fast (faster than 7200 rpm Hitachi reads) Cons: Slow write speed, and regular pauses. Other Thoughts: I won't buy another SSD unless my primary need is no moving parts, unless write speeds improve a lot. Encrypting the device took 2 hours, where the replaced 80G 7200rpm took 1 hour. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
katPHish Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: less than 1 day This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/29/2009 5:56:14 PM Doh! Not good for a primary OS drive. Pros: Pretty fast and cheap SSD for use as "storage". Cons: none Other Thoughts: I usually am pretty good about researching stuff b4 I buy it, but I did not find out some important info regarding SSD's untill a few min ago. If you want ot use a SSD as a primary OS drive you need a SLC and not and MLC like this one :( Look on Anandtech for "Enter the Poorly Designed MLC". I hope NewEgg will take this back :( 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
neilbradley Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/27/2009 3:44:16 PM Does the job! Pros: Small/cheap - decent read rates (getting 66MB, that's MEGABYTES) a second under FreeBSD 7.1 on an Intel D945GCFL2 motherboard. Cons: Doesn't support multi-block DMA. Sustained write rates under FreeBSD are 15-20MB/sec, so write speeds could be better. Other Thoughts: I have not encountered any of the aforementioned pauses under FreeBSD 7.1. Understand there are MANY factors that can contribute to spurty transfers - the OS, the motherboard, the BIOS, drivers, and system configuration all can have an influence of behavior. It would be useful if people posted their system configurations so buyers could at least see the context in which it's being judged. While I wouldn't deploy this drive on a high performance system, it's perfectly suited for my needs for a cheap/quiet server/router. 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: average Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/22/2009 8:19:21 PM Slow Pros: Should be rugged, unlike the last two disks it replaces in my automotive application. Cons: While copying my music collection to this disk, the highest speed I have seen is about 600 kBps. It is taking 10-15 seconds per file for <5MB files. Other Thoughts: The computer boots quickly and seems to operate with generally low latency, indicating that this disk has a problem primarily with write speed. I'm hoping that there is a way to tweak this setup to get better performance, but it isn't looking promising. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/20/2009 3:30:57 PM It works... kinda Pros: Most of the time it's reasonably fast, and there is a noticeable difference in boot time of windows xp. Good price (the only reason this still gets three stars), no moving parts. Cons: Every minute or so under load my computer now completely freezes up for a couple of seconds. According to some articles online this seems to be a common problem in less expensive SSDs having to do with a buggy memory controller. I ran some tests, and some 4KB write operations were taking over 2 seconds... not acceptable. Other Thoughts: When I saw this product I thought that SSD prices had finally fallen to the point that I could finally afford a decent one. I was a little bit skeptical, but I figured I would trust the previous reviewers. Bad idea. If you are in the market for an SSD and have the money, I'd go with a more expensive brand or the SLC version at very least. Otherwise, I'd just get a regular hard drive (which I can't do now because the item is NON-RETURNABLE. just so you know.) 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Richard Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/13/2009 10:03:58 AM Old IBM T22-1GHz P3 Goes Fast! Pros: Way faster than the old 32 GB 5400 that was in it. Got xubuntu 8.04 Working on it. Cheap enough to revitalize an old laptop and speed it up to boot! (pun intended) So far do good! Cons: Kept freezing up during install of Ubuntu so I dropped to Xubuntu and it worked fine. Not sure if it was Ubuntu or not (now that I think about it, it probably was not Ubuntu). The drive is thinner than the old IBM 32GB that came out, so you have to be careful lining it up when you slide it in. You must use the old IBM screws or it won't fit at all (heads on new included screws too thick). Other Thoughts: I love it. Boots quickly, the old battery get another 30 minutes out of it and it puts some new life into my old IBM Laptop that I thought was not worth fixing up. I hope it lasts because I am getting used to dragging my T-22 Xubuntu along and leaving my XP laptop home. They are about the same speed now (Core 2 to P3!). Open Office package runs nice with it, too. All on a half gig of RAM (which is the max memory for this 11 yr old IBM Laptop). 3 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
dduckw0rth Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/3/2009 7:15:59 PM Works great in my Dell Inspiron 6000 Pros: Solid state, no moving parts, durable, QUIET! Cons: For myself, I cannot think of any major cons. This SSD certainly cannot keep up with a spinning platter in some heavy usage scenarios, but that's not what it was purchased for. Other Thoughts: Bought this to replace the 40GB PATA 5400rpm western digital hard drive in my Inspiron 6000. I heard some horror reports about SSD drives, wasn't sure this was good idea. After installing the SSD and loading XP (which seemed to take as long, probably less, than with the old hard drive) I noticed that certain operations were noticeably snappy, such as searching for large numbers of files and installing software and drivers. I do believe that some of this was due to a fresh XP install. There was no freezing or stuttering. Tweaks: I disabled the page file, disabled NTFS last-access-update, disabled prefetching, and a few other things. After using the laptop awhile, I've come to the conclusion that it IS faster for what I mostly do (web browsing, email, VPN, remote desktop work). I would recommend this to anyone seeking a good SSD to put into their laptop, without selling the farm. Oh, and did I mention this thing is QUIET? I love that! Next project: RAMDISK for IE temp files. 6 out of 7 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Mark Allen Tech Level: high Ownership: more than 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	12/29/2008 8:30:02 PM Good Bang For The Buck! Pros: Lower power consumption. I now get an extra 35 min out of my battery. Durable, Long Life... probably longer life than the laptop itself. I now have SSD's (OCZ and Transcend) in all my laptops and they have all been faultless in operation. There is also a little less heat in that corner of the TC-1100 after hours of operation... Cons: Buyers of SSD's will see better performance gains with SATA SSD's! I get just a little faster read speed than the original Hitachi 60gb 5400 rpm HD and much slower write speeds. Other then that nothing to complain about as I don't transfer large files to and from it. I bought the drive because it's shock proof! A strong jar or drop of the tablet won't destroy it. Other Thoughts: I also bought this for use in a TC-1100. This is a good replacement for older laptops with IDE drives. I also tested this drive in an old Dell CPX and it worked out fine. My TC-1100 lives in my service van and so gets a bit of abuse. The SSD will be able to take the abuse. Overall its a good buy. 3 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	12/25/2008 4:51:48 PM Great to have, at $2/Gig Pros: - No moving parts; great for hardening your traveling system. - Quiet; won't hear the drive ever. - Fast; a little more sprightly than the old 160GB drive (which has been relegated to an external enclosure for data traveling). - BONUS: kiss that stupid page file goodbye! Works better without it, and no complaints from Windows XP about it disappearing. Cons: - Need to get used to not defragging the system. Don't bother in any case, since it has no effect (apparently the controller on the card has its own data allocation firmware, rendering defragging immaterial). Yes, I know I'm not supposed to defrag it. I had to try it, though, since GHOSTing the old OS to the new drive made for some weird data allocation choices onto the new drive, as well as causing defrag to report the need. As I said before, don't bother. It won't make any difference anyways. Don't believe me? Try it, ONCE (it won't hurt anything just trying it once), watch the defrag activity. You'll see what I mean. Other Thoughts: Original Specs: Toshiba Satellite 2GB RAM Celeron 1.5GHz proc. WD 160GB 5400rpm HDD 1280x800 ATI video Windows XP SP2 2 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: high Ownership: less than 1 day	9/24/2008 9:03:33 PM Do not defrag Pros: Do not defrag this drive or any other like it. SSD's know where the information is that is why they have near zero seek time. If you defrag these drives they will reduce the over all life of the drive. And if you are placing this in a laptop, which uses low powered processors, you are not going to see a huge jump in performance. But, you will see an overall speed increase. Cons: None Other Thoughts: Also the reason that hibernation takes just as long is because the OS needs time to gather the save information about the programs running. It then just writes it to any open spot on the drive which is why they take about the same time. It is the starting back up that will be faster with an SSD. Don't defrag! 13 out of 15 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	8/17/2008 11:14:14 AM Good replacement for HP TC1100 Pros: Works flawlessly on HP Tablet TC1100. I replaced my 7200 rpm Hitachi 60GB Travelstar with this product. The OS (XP and then service pak 3) installed without incident. Formatting the disk only took 40 secs! I've reinstalled all my applications - no errors. The drive is seductively silent. I've performed numerous defrags (not that this needs to be done on a solid state drive), all without problems. The drive stays cooler than the 7200 rpm drive, and uses battery power a little less. Cons: Not as fast as I thought it would be. Everything is a little snappier than my 7200 rpm physical drive, but it doesn't blow your mind away. Hibernation takes as much time as with my 7200 rpm drive, a big disappointment. It uses battery power less, but not dramatically so. It's also not all that light - may scale says 90 grams for the solid state drive, 115 grams for the Hitachi 60GB 7200 rpm drive. Other Thoughts: Overall, a good product. But having used the product, I'm not sure it is worth the cost when compared to physical drives. It's better, but I was expecting really short times to place the PC in hibernation mode. That is not the case. Defrags also take a lot of time. It seems, for the TC1100, the rate limiting feature is the speed of the CPU. 13 out of 21 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!