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<p>I now see that you already mentioned it is laptop so ignore me.
Hopefully my bcache comments might be useful to someone else.</p>
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<p style="margin: 10pt 0; color: black;">On 29 January 2014 10:57:33 Martin
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<p>Is this for a laptop or desktop?</p>
<p>If a desktop and you have space inside, you might consider keeping the
hdd, adding a smaller ssd, and using bcache.</p>
<p>If you are not aware of bcache it's a linux feature that uses your ssd
to cache the most frequently used data from your hdd. You end up with
a filesystem as big as your hdd that works almost as fast as your sdd speed
on average.</p>
<p>-- <br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>I'm looking to upgrade from a 500GB
spinning rust unit to an SSD. Intel are over £400 and as good as they are,
I don't need to fuss about power loss as this is in a laptop.<br><br>
</div>Kingston seems to trump Crucial for performance and capacity
(I've not had an issue with the Kingston RAM I've bought in the
past). Any other SSD makers? I'd need a 7mm unit.<br><br></div>And what
about mSata? I could install a 120GB mSata drive, make it bootable and use
that as a main drive, keeping the 500GB HDD for the 60GB Windows partition
and stuff I don't need quickly (e.g. music or something). Other than
capacity, are there downsides to mSata?<br>
<br></div>Mentioning Windows, if I replace the HDD; does anyone know if the
Windows partition on there would boot when used as an external drive?
Unfortunately I need to keep Windows for firmware updates
etc.<br><br>Cheers!<br>
<br></div>J.<br></div>
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