must pay attention to what when replacing hdd by ssd in laptop?

Hello,

I am thinking about replacing the hdd of someone I know by a ssd.

Ik know the ssd must not be too thick but are there other things that
matter and to whom I should pay attention?

Massimo

Massimo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am thinking about replacing the hdd of someone I know by a ssd.
>
> Ik know the ssd must not be too thick but are there other things that
> matter and to whom I should pay attention?
>
> Massimo

If you buy a 550MB/sec SSD, it won't get the full speed from a
300MB/sec laptop SATA interface. This does not affect the operation
at all, just your expectations of the speed should be reduced.

*******

SSD drives draw different amounts of DC power. A hard drive, might
use about 2 watts during read/write. Some of the early SSD drives
used higher power levels. This is an issue if the hard drive bay
in your laptop, normally gets hot. (This has even been a problem
in the past, with replacing a 5400 RPM HDD with a 7200 RPM HDD.
Some of those would overheat, because the cooling was so poor.)

To give an example:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820233227

Power Consumption (Idle) 0.4W
Power Consumption (Active) 7.3W

Now, such an SSD drive might not spend much time doing read/write, so
you could argue the time spent in the 7.3W state is minuscule. But
the drives also re-arrange data internally, when they're not busy
doing other things. Which can consume some power. If a drive has
been abused by doing a random 4K write test, it might take
half the night for the drive to re-arrange data internally.

Now, we compare to another SSD drive.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820147164

Power Consumption (Idle) 0.08W
Power Consumption (Active) 0.12W

Those values are unbelievably good. Should we trust such a declaration ?
If the SSD had eight channels internally, and 8 flash chips doing write
or erase at the same time, would the total power be only 0.12W ?

If I pick a laptop HDD at random:

WD Scorpio Black 250 GB SATA Hard Drives ( WD2500BEKT)

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=790

Power Dissipation

Read/Write 2.50 Watts
Idle 0.85 Watts
Standby 0.25 Watts
Sleep 0.15 Watts

That's to give some idea what the laptop would normally have in it.

Paul

Massimo <och@tisnietwaar.nl.invalid> wrote in
news:et4i18ljc0je03nhldh9qgj5l6t2m2h4e1@4ax.com:

> Hello,
>
> I am thinking about replacing the hdd of someone I know by a ssd.
>
> Ik know the ssd must not be too thick but are there other things that
> matter and to whom I should pay attention?
>
> Massimo
>

Bij microsoft software ophalen, om het schrijven naar disk te verminderen.

On 8/1/2012 at 6:33:15 AM Massimo wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am thinking about replacing the hdd of someone I know by a ssd.
>
> Ik know the ssd must not be too thick but are there other things that
> matter and to whom I should pay attention?
>
> Massimo

This article might help you:
http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/...er-market-ssd/

--
tb

On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:20:02 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote:

>Massimo wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am thinking about replacing the hdd of someone I know by a ssd.
>>
>> Ik know the ssd must not be too thick but are there other things that
>> matter and to whom I should pay attention?
>>
>> Massimo
>
>If you buy a 550MB/sec SSD, it won't get the full speed from a
>300MB/sec laptop SATA interface. This does not affect the operation
>at all, just your expectations of the speed should be reduced.
>
I know. The biggest gain would be in shorter load/open times. High
iops will be most important.
>*******
>
>SSD drives draw different amounts of DC power. A hard drive, might
>use about 2 watts during read/write. Some of the early SSD drives
>used higher power levels. This is an issue if the hard drive bay
>in your laptop, normally gets hot. (This has even been a problem
>in the past, with replacing a 5400 RPM HDD with a 7200 RPM HDD.
>Some of those would overheat, because the cooling was so poor.)
>
>To give an example:
>
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820233227
>
> Power Consumption (Idle) 0.4W
> Power Consumption (Active) 7.3W
>
>Now, such an SSD drive might not spend much time doing read/write, so
>you could argue the time spent in the 7.3W state is minuscule. But
>the drives also re-arrange data internally, when they're not busy
>doing other things. Which can consume some power. If a drive has
>been abused by doing a random 4K write test, it might take
>half the night for the drive to re-arrange data internally.
>
>Now, we compare to another SSD drive.
>
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820147164
>
> Power Consumption (Idle) 0.08W
> Power Consumption (Active) 0.12W
>
So the power consumption of the drive certainly is something to pay
attention to. Allright.

>Those values are unbelievably good. Should we trust such a declaration ?
>If the SSD had eight channels internally, and 8 flash chips doing write
>or erase at the same time, would the total power be only 0.12W ?
>
>If I pick a laptop HDD at random:
>
>WD Scorpio Black 250 GB SATA Hard Drives ( WD2500BEKT)
>
>http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=790
>
> Power Dissipation
>
> Read/Write 2.50 Watts
> Idle 0.85 Watts
> Standby 0.25 Watts
> Sleep 0.15 Watts
>
>That's to give some idea what the laptop would normally have in it.
>
Uh. o.k.

> Paul

Thank you for your comments Paul.
--------------------------------
So it is not necessary to look at the interface? No smaller interface
model needed?

Massimo

On 01 Aug 2012 16:43:24 GMT, Sjouke Burry <s@b> wrote:

>Massimo <och@tisnietwaar.nl.invalid> wrote in
>news:et4i18ljc0je03nhldh9qgj5l6t2m2h4e1@4ax.com :
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am thinking about replacing the hdd of someone I know by a ssd.
>>
>> Ik know the ssd must not be too thick but are there other things that
>> matter and to whom I should pay attention?
>>
>> Massimo
>>
>
>Bij microsoft software ophalen, om het schrijven naar disk te verminderen.

Hoe heet de software waar je nu op hint?

Bedankt Sjouke,

Massimo

Massimo <och@tisnietwaar.nl.invalid> wrote in
news:kb4j181psd3kvrfivine56o4e08uckm4qr@4ax.com:

> On 01 Aug 2012 16:43:24 GMT, Sjouke Burry <s@b> wrote:
>
>>Massimo <och@tisnietwaar.nl.invalid> wrote in
>>news:et4i18ljc0je03nhldh9qgj5l6t2m2h4e1@4ax.co m:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am thinking about replacing the hdd of someone I know by a ssd.
>>>
>>> Ik know the ssd must not be too thick but are there other things
>>> that matter and to whom I should pay attention?
>>>
>>> Massimo
>>>
>>
>>Bij microsoft software ophalen, om het schrijven naar disk te
>>verminderen.
>
> Hoe heet de software waar je nu op hint?
>
> Bedankt Sjouke,
>
> Massimo
>
Heb alleen in een nieuwsgroep iemand anders horen vertellen
dat er software/instellingen van M$ afkomstig zijn, om
de schrijfacties te minimaliseren op deze schijven.
Die zijn nl. schadelijk voor deze disks.
Probeer google.

On 01 Aug 2012 20:43:28 GMT, Sjouke Burry <s@b> wrote:

>Massimo <och@tisnietwaar.nl.invalid> wrote in
>news:kb4j181psd3kvrfivine56o4e08uckm4qr@4ax.com :
>
>> On 01 Aug 2012 16:43:24 GMT, Sjouke Burry <s@b> wrote:
>>
>>>Massimo <och@tisnietwaar.nl.invalid> wrote in
>>>news:et4i18ljc0je03nhldh9qgj5l6t2m2h4e1@4ax.com :
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am thinking about replacing the hdd of someone I know by a ssd.
>>>>
>>>> Ik know the ssd must not be too thick but are there other things
>>>> that matter and to whom I should pay attention?
>>>>
>>>> Massimo
>>>>
>>>
>>>Bij microsoft software ophalen, om het schrijven naar disk te
>>>verminderen.
>>
>> Hoe heet de software waar je nu op hint?
>>
>> Bedankt Sjouke,
>>
>> Massimo
>>
>Heb alleen in een nieuwsgroep iemand anders horen vertellen
>dat er software/instellingen van M$ afkomstig zijn, om
>de schrijfacties te minimaliseren op deze schijven.
>Die zijn nl. schadelijk voor deze disks.
>Probeer google.

Okay, Sjouke

Massimo

On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 20:13:47 +0000 (UTC), "tb" <nospam@example.invalid>
wrote:

>On 8/1/2012 at 6:33:15 AM Massimo wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am thinking about replacing the hdd of someone I know by a ssd.
>>
>> Ik know the ssd must not be too thick but are there other things that
>> matter and to whom I should pay attention?
>>
>> Massimo
>
>This article might help you:
>http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/...er-market-ssd/

Thanks for the url. I read it with pleasure.
The problems the author talks about will however easily be avoided by
me. :-)

Massimo