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(DEAD again) Intel 80GB SSD $146 shipped (Dane Elec G1)

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does anyone have a link for the adapter needed? Also how are you liking this drive? I take it; its worth the $50 savings over gen2?
you can use GC on these drives too correct? GC is similar to trim plus works on raid arrays
 
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Hacp said:
Anyone manage to fit their drives into their laptops? My adaptor is strange -_-.
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? What's strange about it?

I just got mine and have tested it to make sure it detected. The 1.8" drive was already in the 2.5" adapter and it hooked up just fine.

I have heard that it has a problem lining up in Lenovo (and maybe some other) notebooks, so you have to support it while sliding it into place, instead of just setting it all the way in.

Infrnl said:
does anyone have a link for the adapter needed? Also how are you liking this drive? I take it; its worth the $50 savings over gen2?
you can use GC on these drives too correct? GC is similar to trim plus works on raid arrays
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What's GC?

For $150 I think it is worth the price. It should come with the adapter.
 
Zap said:
? What's strange about it?

I just got mine and have tested it to make sure it detected. The 1.8" drive was already in the 2.5" adapter and it hooked up just fine.

I have heard that it has a problem lining up in Lenovo (and maybe some other) notebooks, so you have to support it while sliding it into place, instead of just setting it all the way in.



What's GC?

For $150 I think it is worth the price. It should come with the adapter.
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It won't fit in my E6400 Latitude.
 
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Zap said:
? What's strange about it?

I just got mine and have tested it to make sure it detected. The 1.8" drive was already in the 2.5" adapter and it hooked up just fine.

I have heard that it has a problem lining up in Lenovo (and maybe some other) notebooks, so you have to support it while sliding it into place, instead of just setting it all the way in.



What's GC?

For $150 I think it is worth the price. It should come with the adapter.
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Garbage collection. I believe the gen 1 intel drives support it and its like trim in a sense.

Would this drive be ok for someone without knowledge. Reason I ask is because My brother wants an ssd, but he is not very computer literate and I do not want to have to constantly help him.
I do not know if a 40gig v series is big enough, maybe a 60gig ocz or this drive. He does not want to spend too much, but wants all the performance benefits he can get. I do not even know if his mobo supports ahci. He is running a P35 abit mobo and dual core cpu.

I myself am thinking about taking the plunge, but there are so many options these days and more coming. I just need something to hopld me off till the end of the year. Then the drive I get now I can put into another system.
My current thoughts are: This dane/intel drive, 80gb gen2, intel v series, or ocz; probably solid 2 as the agility's seem to have many issues.

Thanks for any input and sorry to make this a little off topic. Seems like there is more useful info in the hotdeals section than the storage section
 
the coupon appears to be working again for anyone still interested that missed out on it the last time.

(and to the above poster, Garbage collection is controller driven, and no, the Intel controllers do no have that functionality to my knowledge.)
 
I figured out why the drive wouldn't fit and why my Latitude wouldn't recognize it. I need an RMA -_-. Hopefully they get me a new drive and don't just give me a refund.
 
Received mine a few days ago. Its working great in my Dell 9400 laptop, running windows XP. I first just directly cloned the drive from my old hard disk - that worked fine. However I thought I might be missing out on performance, so I wiped out the drive, attempted to align the boot partition, using a gparted boot CD. I then did a fresh WinXP install. I can't say I notice any difference at all, though.

I first aligned the parition following this guide:

http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index...g-Windows-Partitions-Without-Losing-Data.html

After this, the AS SSD benchmark said my parition alignment was OK. However, I heard that it was better to use a 2048 offset sector alignment, so I redid the alignment and now the AS SSD benchmark crashes. Everything else runs OK, but I'm a little worried that the benchmark is crashing. Will look into this at some point in time in the future, and try different offsets.

The drive didn't eactly fit into my Dell 9400, as the drive was thinner than the old drive, so I had to place some paper under it to raise it up, so the screws could reach.

My old laptop drive was a 320 GB Fujitsu (which was already an upgrade). I placed this drive into the CD slot, using this adpater.

http://cgi.ebay.com/2nd-SATA-HDD-Ha...C_Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item33570a5445

SO Now I have the 80 GB as my boot and App drive, and use the 320 GB drive as my backup and storage. I have an external USB DVD burner in case I need a DVD drive, but I copied the CDs I regularly use to CD images, and just store them on the large old drive.

The original 120 GB that came with my Dell is in the USB case that came with this kit, and I use that as an external backup as well. So overall, I'm very happy with this kit, and have made use out of all the hardware that comes with it. I really like having 2 drives in the laptop - nice speed boost, and lots of storage.
 
I took the plunge... kinda wondering if I should have bought a second one and RAID'd them... 80 gb is sort of slim. I guess I will just have to get used to deleting games after I install them lol. Anyone know how to minimize the Windows 7 Ultimate install to the bare minimum to save space?
 
allthatisman said:
I took the plunge... kinda wondering if I should have bought a second one and RAID'd them... 80 gb is sort of slim. I guess I will just have to get used to deleting games after I install them lol. Anyone know how to minimize the Windows 7 Ultimate install to the bare minimum to save space?
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I hear you can use vlite ver 1.2 and customize however you want
 
I've always wanted to put a SATA SSD in my PATA based Dell Inspiron 9300. I see you have done this using a CD caddy with a built in SATA to PATA adapter. Is the SSD in the CD caddy master and your 320 GB slave? Or is the SSD, the secondary channel drive and 320GB, the primary. Either way, it's encouraging that it works and is bootable.

However, you said you didn't notice much of an improvement. I have used a cheap SATA to PATA adapter before in a desktop and noticed that it flatlined the sequential transfer speed to roughly 66 MB/s. The drive was capable of close to 100MB. It was a cheap adapter with no settings to change, so I just tossed it instead of trying to toy with it.

Your Intel SSD with SATA II should get 240 MB for sequential reads in HDTACH and AS SSD. Could you let us know? The built in SATA to PATA adapter in the caddy will also introduce it's own latency, but it's the overall performance of the SSD should still be better than a regular drive. In another SATA I system, my Intel is maxing out the SATA I interface at about ~135MB. Your Intel should be close in your PATA based notebook.
 
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Couple questions:
A couple people have said you just plugged this drive in, and use it. Is this true? What is with this partition aligning ???

Also, can you just use the drive? Or do you have to use the adapters and stuff? I'd like to get the best performance which would mean plugging the drive into the computer with no converters with their latency. Is this possible? Does the bare drive have the normal sata and power connections built into it?
 
superHARD said:
What is with this partition aligning ???

Also, can you just use the drive? Or do you have to use the adapters and stuff? I'd like to get the best performance which would mean plugging the drive into the computer with no converters with their latency. Is this possible? Does the bare drive have the normal sata and power connections built into it?
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You only need to align partitions if using with Windows XP. Vista and 7 will align it properly.

The "bare" drive does not have the proper SATA power connector so in a desktop system (or normal notebook) you will have to use the 2.5" adaptor that it comes in. To my knowledge using the adapter imparts no additional latency.
 
superHARD said:
I'd like to get the best performance which would mean plugging the drive into the computer with no converters with their latency.
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Yes, I detailed the adapter this kit came with. It should be on this thread. The latency I suggested is for a PATA to SATA adapter which is not included with this product.
 
Infrnl said:
Would this drive be ok for someone without knowledge. Reason I ask is because My brother wants an ssd, but he is not very computer literate and I do not want to have to constantly help him.
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What do you mean? It would be like any other hard drive out there. You install your OS/Apps to it and reformat when windows needs a refresh. I bought this drive back at x-mas time when it was on sale, I've had no issues with it and it woke up the C2D in my LEnovo X200.
 
Sorry about the double post, but I've been poking around the web and here at AT and I have yet to get a definitive answer on the subject due to conflicting information. Can these drives use Garbage Collection? If they can't, is there something else that I could use to prevent performance degradation?
 
mooseracing said:
What do you mean? It would be like any other hard drive out there. You install your OS/Apps to it and reformat when windows needs a refresh. I bought this drive back at x-mas time when it was on sale, I've had no issues with it and it woke up the C2D in my LEnovo X200.
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What I meant by this is; my brother barely knows how to turn on his computer and I am his tech support. I love my brother but I do not have the time to always help as I did in the past; just too busy.

These Drives are known to slow down in time so would need to make image and wipe drive as far as I know. My brother is not capable to do this and I do not want to have to do it all the time for him.

some clain the drive slows down in a couple months, other say they havent seen anything.

Basically this drive is higher maintenance than a gen 2 drive and not sure if its a worthwhile investment for my brother.

Deal is dead now I think, so doesn't really matter.
I think he is either going Gen2 or ocz solid 2 series. I cannot recommend agility with all the problems I have seen with them
 
Well, I've been running a G1 X25 for about 4 months now with no discernible performance difference. I think the slowdown has something to do with how quickly you fill the drive up too... I put the OS and programs only on it, about 25GB worth of data, and set the web browser to swap to RAM.

All that said, if you're really worried about the slowdown issue I'd just get him an Indilinx or G2 drive.

Interestingly, my X25 came from one of those Dane-Elec kits. I've NEVER seen another X25 kit, they've all been X18s... I just happened to spot this one at MicroCenter and snagged it.
 
vj8usa said:
What problems have you seen with the Agility series? You're starting to make me paranoid; I've been using a 60GB Agility for a few weeks now.
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I have been reading a lot of the thread trying to choose an ssd for myself and 1 for my brother.
I have been reading that a lot of people are having there drives die on them, lose data, or become undescoverable; things of the sort. Seems quite a few members on 3 of my forums have had to rma their drives.
Makes me nervous to buy one. not so much for me as I keep everything backed up and do not have a whole lot of vital data, but my brother uses his computer for our llittle business and his wife uses it for her business.
They know very little about computers and tend not to keep things backed up.

Don't get me wrong I love OCZ products, but the risk is there mainly on the Agility drives; and not really a risk I want to take. I am sure there are many that have never had an issue either, but I have bad luck and would probably be one to have issues.
 
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