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acer 4830tg laptop

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vincedea

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I have this laptop and I was wondering which ssd would go great with this laptop? I only use this laptop for docs, web surfing, and i have SC on it and thats about it.

any recommendations of which one to get and what size?
 
Samsung 830 series 64GB. They're the best SSD on the market IMO regardless of device or usage. They've price crashed lately and in the UK it's now £10 cheaper than a 64GB m4!

The annoying bit for you will be the 7mm / 9.5mm problem. Chances are your existing hard drive in your laptop will be 9.5mm high. The 830 is 7mm high. If you buy the basic kit then you do not get the 2.5mm plastic spacer to stick on your drive. If you buy the notebook kit, you do, but the notebook kit is much more expensive.

I just bought the basic kit for a laptop upgrade I'm doing this weekend and made a spacer out of some plastic.
 
it might be safer to go with the 128gb if by SC you mean SC2 and you want to get the expansions later
i'm not sure how much the expansions will take up and you'll want to maintain ~10-20% free space to allow TRIM/SSD maintainence softwares to work effectively
windows 7 64-bit itself can take up 20-35gb of space, and SC 2 with updates ~16 gb

samsung 830, crucial m4, and many of intel's newer SSDs are all good choices
like coup says, you'll want to make sure it's the right height or comes with an appropriate kit
 
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Alright thanks for the suggestions. I should be worried about sata 2 vs sata 3 for the ssd?

I was really considering the samsung and the m4 ssd
 
your notebook should support SATA III 6Gbps
SATA II and III will both work

SATA II will have a lower maximum transfer rate than SATA III, but the difference usually won't be noticeable on a notebook
 
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Yeah the SATA port on that laptop should be 6Gbps. The chipset supports it, but sometimes laptop manufacturers throttle them back to make life easier elsewhere.

Either way, the difference is mainly in sequential reading and writing and you would struggle to notice the difference on a desktop let alone a notebook.

I've got an Intel 320 in an old Dell D520 which has an ICH7M running at 1.5Gbps and it's still fast enough.
 
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