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MajesticWerewolf

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What size of SSD do I need so it would fit in my laptop. I might want to upgrade to an SSD.

My laptop is a Lenovo G50-80. What is the SATA interface of the hard drive?
 
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Laquer Head

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The drive is a 5400rpm Western Digital Blue and both drive and interface are sata3 6G

EDIT: you can grab a Samsung 850 250GB for like $100
 
johnb35

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As long as the recovery partition and primary partition on your old drive is smaller then the SSD you can clone old drive to new. And providing you have no issues that would be taken care of by a fresh install of windows.
 
Geoff

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MajesticWerewolf said:
Got my SSD, installed windows 10. (kingston 60gb)

The SSD is MBR, how do I convert to GPT?
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Can you return it? A 60GB SSD is really not enough. Besides, if it's 60GB it's likely a very old SSD. I wouldn't recommend anything lower than a 120GB for a boot drive alone, and if you actually need to store data on it I'd get at least a 250GB.
 
beers

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Geoff said:
Can you return it? A 60GB SSD is really not enough. Besides, if it's 60GB it's likely a very old SSD. I wouldn't recommend anything lower than a 120GB for a boot drive alone, and if you actually need to store data on it I'd get at least a 250GB.
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^ That. Especially when you can grab 240/256 GB drives for ~$60-75
 
Intel_man

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I remember running my Vertex 2 60gb as the OS drive... oh my god it was horrible. I had to basically move everything BUT windows off of that thing.
 
Geoff

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MajesticWerewolf said:
SSD CrystalDiskMark
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272MB/s read and 67MB/s write is very poor, and not that much better than a high end mechanical drive. Newer SSDs can easily achieve 400-450MB/s read and write. It's more about the capacity though, a 120/250GB SSD are not that expensive.
 
beers

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MajesticWerewolf said:
kingston 60gb
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Is that the V300? They have changed since the review units and include much slower asynchronous NAND, which would explain the low write speed.

I would return it if possible, something like a 850 EVO will give you a lot higher performance.
 
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MajesticWerewolf

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I'm thinking about upgrading to the Samsung 850 Evo, is it worth the upgrade? (for speed and capacity)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OBRFFAS

Old SSD: Kingston V300 (60GB, free space empty)
New SSD: Samsung 850 Evo

Also, how much capacity is best for me? (I'm a gamer)

I want to be able to install all sims games and expansion packs, but they use up all the space on the 60GB SSD and I only have enough storage for about 3 expansion packs.
 
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johnb35

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250gb is normal. You only want to install a few of your games on the ssd that would benefit from it anyway. Keep most of your games on the hdd.
 
johnb35

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Just add up all the games you have and how much space they take up and that will give you a good estimate of what size drive you need.
 
johnb35

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Well USD would be under 200 but not sure about UK. Would just get a usb flash drive for portable files and such. Same for reinstalling windows, just download the tool and have it put the install on the flash drive.
 
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