can you take the drive out and put an ssd in there? do you get the full TB speed or is it comparable to USB3?
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I'm not familiar with the English language I opened this device but I did not replace it with an SSD drive. Because I don't have any extra SSD drive. I think it seems easy to replace another ssd drive. but This device is attached by adhesive. so be careful when you open it.
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2.5 inch, no room for an 3.5 drive you should go with the SSD, its easier on the power supply. I am not sure the compatibility between sata 2 & sata 3, the box has USB 3, that is good. I was surprised to see the box run win server 2012 when we loaded it as a domain controller.
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Ok so there's a few things you need to understand in relation to comparing speeds. First there's no standard read write speeds for hdds my 7200 3tb drive ranges from 72 to 150 MB/s Next plastered drives are hard to compare directly with solid state. Platter drives read faster on the inner tracks compared to the litter tracks. There's also spin - up and spin down time for a platter drive. Now this ssd WILL max out your 3gbs sata2 at about 300 to 380MB/s Of course you look and see oh that's only double. True long read will be about double speed. However, it's those short access small files that'll benefit the most. Ssds have no platter. So no spin speed. They just send as much as the device / interface can handle. They also don't "seek" for data so there's no time loss there. In random reads my ssd is roughly 60x faster over all. But if I'm moving a TB of movies or whatnot. It's not AS remarkably fast but still a 100% better experience.
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I removed the 500G drive (it was 7200 RPM, BTW) and replaced it with a 250G SSD. Because of the fixed position of the disk connector a 3.5 to 2.5 adapter doesn't fit. I just plugged the SSD in and secured it with a couple pieces of tape. Since it lies flat, it's not going anywhere. I loaded a pre-release copy of Windows 10 on the SSD and have been running it for a couple months. Not a gaming rig, but a good general purpose unit. Boots fast, very stable. When Win. 10 is released I'll put the 500G disk back and run the upgrade so I'll have a genuine licensed copy.
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I haven't done that so I can't completely answer but really any SSD should work in it. This laptop really boots up fast compared to a regular HD. I suspect it is one of the new hybrids.
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Dude if you have a compaq, throw it out and I'll build you a real computer:). 800-707-2525. It would be a complete waste to put a fast SSD drive into a piece of crap. Of course this is not the SSD drive to get. The Samsung 840 pro is the one to get as it is almost double the speed for only $50 more. Well worth it. Plus the Samsung comes with software to keep it running fast where this drive will be running 1/5th the speed in about 5 months.
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No reason why you shouldn't use this along side a standard SSD. I would use the SSD as the boot drive though.
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Thanks for the info, just out of interest how fast does your laptop boot windows 7 with the ssd going at SATA II?
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I got this 3 TB drive. Personally it is no different from the 2 TB other then the obvious 1 TB extra. One thing to note since this drive is larger then 2 TB it will have to be formatted with GPT (GUID Partition Table) not MBR (Master Boot Record). You OS mush be able to support that, Windows 7 and up.
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no. and the drive is custom built from wd with all connectors on the drive. you cannot take out the drive inside it and use as internal drive on your computer.
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Hi, I'm Jewel with Kingston Technical Support and would like to clarify. The USB enclosure provided in the notebook upgrade kit. Is a USB 2.0 enclosure, meant to be used to clone your original hdd to our ssd. It can be used to store your original hdd as well.
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There seem to be different versions of the same basic model. Mine came with a 250 gb spinning platter drive. I put a 128 gb ssd in for about 80 bucks. The kit by monster made that super simple and you can reuse the software and cable for other computers. RAM seems to vary as well. I have three of these 1 from work and 2 bought used.
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Unless they upgraded the kit, the adapter is USB2 not USB3. The adapter is mainly just used to clone the drive, so shouldn't be a major issue. Once you install the SSD as your primary drive, you can always use the adapter to reconnect your old drive, which normally will have a hard time saturating the USB 2 speed.
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You can just pull it out to remove it. I think there is a tab you can pull as well. I don't sell SSD drives. I'm just a customer of the chassis and it worked for me.
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I bought the 480GB and the speeds are pretty awesome read about 6GB (SSD) and the 250 (originally built in) over USB 3.0 about 3GB/S Hope this helps
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No, this is not a SSD drive. I would not recommend using a SSD drive as an external device. The price point per gigabyte ( X gigabyte/$ = pricepoint) does not make financial sense. Also , you will suffer a performance hit with most of the common available ports on a laptop or pc (USB2/USB3 {avg 90MBs} and eSATA {avg 75MBs}) ,which would neglect the advantage of these super fast devices (SSD avg 500MBs). Because of the port speeds an old fashion hard drive is the best choice.
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I agree with Eric. I always thought the SSD was just there as a disk cache and that appears to be the way it is treated. It works and it is fast. Take a look in Control Panel at "System" and then "Device Manager" and then "Disk Drives" and you will see the SSD listed separately from the hard disk drive. (I'm running Win 8.1)