Question 1

can this be used in a desktop or is it only for laptops ?

Accepted Answer

Yes you can, you will need an Adapter bracket for mounting a 2.5" SSD into a 3.5" drive bay which is more commonly used on desktops. You also need a SATA cable, the same that is used on the "usual"3 1/2 HDs, the power connector should also be the same.

Question 2

can I use for desktop?
thanks

Accepted Answer

As long as the desktop has a SATA port & SATA power plug, you can use it.  I have it installed in a desktop currently.  You will also need a 2.5" slot to mount it in or need to buy an adapter tray or rails to fit an available 3.5" slot.

Question 3

Can this be used for a desktop?

Accepted Answer

Yes, it can be used in a desktop. It has the same (sata) connection other sata hdd's have. Make sure to buy an adapter place ($5) to mount it if the one you buy does not come with one. I have bought between 40 to 50 SSD's to put in laptops and desktops.Raid 5 and raid 10 are awesome with 4 of these drives.

Question 4

can I use this for desktop?
thx

Accepted Answer

Yes. Once it's plugged in and run in test the speeds or run a diagnostic on it. I had a issue with it not working on a certain set of sata 3  ports on my board. Worked at soon as I used a different port. Have had mine for 6 months no issues other than what's listed above

Question 5

Can this SSD be used in a a Campaq V2630 Laptop that has a EIDE?  If not, is there adaptor ofr some sort to make it compatible?  Any suggest will help.

Thanks.

Accepted Answer

Only option you have is to install the ssd into a did to hard drive adapter, only the you'll be able to fit a sata ssd into ide connector . You'll have to remove your dvd drive, install ssd into adapter and install adapter into dvd drive space. The oem hard drive caddy does not have the space to fit any kind of adapters

Question 6

Does this require any specific drivers or can you just use it with windows's default AHCI controller and simply mirror your old drive?

Accepted Answer

No drivers. Plug in and Windows should recognize, replaced my old sata and man this boots and loads a ton quicker. Great laptop upgrade..  Have used with win7 and now the 10 trial builds no issues

Question 7

Will this work on a Lenovo Ideapad U310?

Accepted Answer

Basically any SATA III SSD drive will replace any 2.5 inch mechanical hard drive and work with a noticable increase in performance. But you must be able to clone the drive you are replacing. I replaced a Western Ditigal, useing my Destop Computer with Acronis True Image WD  Edition (you can download from Western Ditigals website). Seagate has its pgm (Seagate DiscWizard). Samsung and Intel SSDs provide a cloning pgm, but they are expensive. You can download a trial version fo Acronis Easy Migrate which will work for 15 days and Erasus Disk Copy, free, will work but you have to burn a CD to boot from and its slow, you will also need Erasus Partion Master to resize the drive after its's cloned.  
There are different versions of the Lenovo Ideapad U310. If you have only one hard drive then, replaceing it with a SSD should give good results. If you have two hard drives, a 5400 500gig and a 24gig or 32gig SSD, then replacing the 5400 500gig with a SSD hard drive will increse performance, but as stated before, you must be able to clone the mechanical 5400 rpm 500gig drive to the SSD.
I put a Silicon Power S60 3K P/E Cycle Toggle MLC 2.5" 120GB 7mm SATA III 6Gb/s Internal Solid State Drive in a Lenovo Z 570 Thinkpad running Windows 7. It replaced a Western Digital 5400 2.5 inch harddrive and the WE rating went from 5.6 to 7.5 and boot time went 95 seconds to 25. I think it's one of the fasted SSDs out there.

Question 8

Can you tell me what kind of adapter or cable I need to install in an old desktop? The desktop has the ribbon cable and the 4 pin power connector...

Accepted Answer

That sounds like IDE and won't be compatible. These drives are designed for SATA based systems. And even if you were to purchase an IDE to SATA adapter I wouldn't recommend it. Compatibility would be spotty at best. Depending on how old that computer is you are trying to breathe new life into, it just might not be possible.

Time to upgrade my friend.

Question 9

Is it true that SSD drives only last for a few years?
What is the average read/write rate?

Accepted Answer

Yes.

Most drives are warrantied 3 years since the average use (read and write) will cause wear and tear on the MLC NAND memory, and cause the memory cells to become unusable.  So make sure you never, ever, run disk optimization on a SSD.  If you set aside 10% of the usable space for over provisioning, the drive should last a little longer.

The drives won't ever hit the maximum 550Mb/s read, 500 Mb/s write, but it's definitely 400Mbs read/write (faster than HDD).

Once you use a SSD, you won't ever go back to a using a HDD for your OS boot drive.  SSHD are inbetween, but with only 8GB NAND.

Question 10

I have 72Gb free on this SSD, but I get 108Mbps Write and 226Mbps Read instead of promised 500Mbps. I have bought SATA III cable for my SSD and it had really good speed when it was new, but after that it became low speed. So, this speed all depends on how much space is taken or something else?

Accepted Answer

As Shane D kind of indicated, as the SSD drive fills, the controller plays a larger part doing garbage collection, etc.  Hopefully you allocated 10% of space as over provisioning (unused space), so that the controller can do it's job better.  Also, verify that the drive has trim enabled.

Incompressible data (like images and multimedia files) make the controller work hard, so you won't ever see the performance you're expecting.  It's better to store these files on a HDD.

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