My laptop only has a SATA II drive chip, so the Samsung EVO SSD drive will only give me 3.0 GB/s. How much faster is that than a 7200 rpm hard disk?
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I cannot talk technicalities here, but I know by personal experience it will be a very noticible difference. If you're strictly concerned with a boot time, SSD will be much faster.
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Hi Richard, My experience is, it is much faster than any Hdisk which has rotating objects. I experienced it with my laptop. Only thing you need to take care is of the adapter by which the HDisk is connected. This one is thinner than earlier one hence may require the packing/covering materials.
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Yes.... it will Max out at your laptop rate of 3gb..... but the ssd is noticeably faster either way, and less likely to fall, due to no moving parts
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I don't know specifically, but generally speaking, an SSD is about 10 times faster than a hard drive,
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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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http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1767466/samsung-840-pro-ssd-samsung-840-evo-ssd.html
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I put a Samsung 840evo 500GB SSD in this enclosure. Large files (>500mb) transferred at an average of 166MB/s on a USB3.0 port with ONE leg of the Y connector connected.
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All SSD are backwards compatible. The only difference is in the SATA speeds. There is SATA I, SATA II and SATA III the respective transfer speeds are SATA I 1.5Gb / sec; SATA II 3.0 Gb/sec; and SATA III 6.0 Gb/sec. The Samsung 840 series are SATA III Capable. My mother board connection is a SATA I and I upgraded to this SSD without problems. You should have no issues either. The plus on this too is even though you will likely lose storage space since your computer was installed with a 1TB HD even if your old HD was 7200 or 10,000 RPM's the read/write capability does not compare to the SSD. SSD has no internal mechanical pieces so they run incredibly fast and are most definitely an upgrade. You can expect to see your computer boot in about 5-10 seconds and program load times will be significantly reduced.
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What type of drive do you have? Yo need dual raid SSD drives sata 3+ to get around those speeds.
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Summary: all functional tests were fine but no speed tests. Used it with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD, 256GB. Tried it first on a Windows 7 machine to delete the partitions. Moved it to an iMac with Mavericks and installed OSX to run externally on the drive. The machine boots and loads software much faster through the external USB port with this case/drive than from the internal 7200 RPM drive. While a SSD is faster than the hard drive, the internal SATA port is much faster than USB3. It comes with a Y cable, one for the USB signal connection and a second thinner cable for extra power. The power cable is not needed with the SSD and I suspect it would not be needed with one of the slower 2.5" hard drives. Summary: all functional tests were fine but no speed tests. Used it with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD, 256GB. Tried it first on a Windows 7 machine to delete the partitions. Moved it to an iMac with Mavericks and installed OSX to run externally on the drive. The machine boots and loads software much faster through the external USB port with this case/drive than from the internal 7200 RPM drive. While a SSD is faster than the hard drive, the internal SATA port is much faster than USB3. It comes with a Y cable, one for the USB signal connection and a second thinner cable for extra power.... » Read More Summary: all functional tests were fine but no speed tests. Used it with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD, 256GB. Tried it first on a Windows 7 machine to delete the partitions. Moved it to an iMac with Mavericks and installed OSX to run externally on the drive. The machine boots and loads software much faster through the external USB port with this case/drive than from the internal 7200 RPM drive. While a SSD is faster than the hard drive, the internal SATA port is much faster than USB3. It comes with a Y cable, one for the USB signal connection and a second thinner cable for extra power. The power cable is not needed with the SSD and I suspect it would not be needed with one of the slower 2.5" hard drives. « Show Less
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An Asus what?? would have helped, but as long as your motherboard supports sata 3 ie the 6gbps speed you should get the largest drive you can afford with the best write speed. Samsung 840, 840 pro or EVO series are all excellent Corsair is also excellent I would currently avoid OCZ not for technical reasons but because the company has gone under and waranty may be a problem in the future. You should also make sure your pc or laptop has an available 3.5inch bay or 2.5(if laptop) if going into a laptop you may only have one available drive bay and might want to get an external sata drive bay for copying your old drive to the new SSD. An Asus what?? would have helped, but as long as your motherboard supports sata 3 ie the 6gbps speed you should get the largest drive you can afford with the best write speed. Samsung 840, 840 pro or EVO series are all excellent Corsair is also excellent I would currently avoid OCZ not for technical reasons but because the company has gone under and waranty may be a problem in the future. You should also make sure your pc or laptop has an available 3.5inch bay or 2.5(if laptop) if going into a laptop you may only have one available drive bay and might want to get an external sata drive bay... » Read More An Asus what?? would have helped, but as long as your motherboard supports sata 3 ie the 6gbps speed you should get the largest drive you can afford with the best write speed. Samsung 840, 840 pro or EVO series are all excellent Corsair is also excellent I would currently avoid OCZ not for technical reasons but because the company has gone under and waranty may be a problem in the future. You should also make sure your pc or laptop has an available 3.5inch bay or 2.5(if laptop) if going into a laptop you may only have one available drive bay and might want to get an external sata drive bay for copying your old drive to the new SSD. « Show Less
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Speed! The regular portable hard drives are usually quite a bit slower than desktop drives due to power constraints. This means they are usually slower RPM drives and the moving parts means lag. The SSD has no moving parts and in this drive in particular, it runs on a USB 3/Thunderbolt buss. I can transfer a 5GB file in seconds as opposed to a mechanical drive.
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I bought these: Seagate Momentus 7200 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive ST9750420ASThey're fast and work great so far after daily abuse with external Final Cut Pro, Aperture, Photoshop, and iTunes libraries. Connected via Thunderbolt it seems just as fast as an internal drive. At the time, earlier in 2013, these were the biggest, fastest drives available. There are bigger drives now with larger caches.
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You have a more recent motherboard than I do by two years. Perhaps I was lucky on my P55 that the components and bus speed performed near the rated speed of the Samsung Pro 840 SSD. My P55 board worked. As I remember back the faster protocol had to be enabled that supports SATAIII speeds. I can only gasp as straws for your experience. Many SSDs are rated at the speed you are experiencing. It's not going to get any faster than the slowest component. Good luck!
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Edited for clarity: SATAe is faster than SATA 3.0, however SSD's and HDD's that are currently out for purchase have a speed cap that is just under SATA 3.0. Until faster media is distributed, SATAe is not needed at all and you will not notice the difference in speed. If you want your computer to be future proof, just wait for the next model to come out, it may have the ports on it.
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Yes and no, I have had friends that have used ssd on there ps3 and the most they see is about 3 to 5 seconds. Which is an improvement, but not @ the cost of a ssd. Most of my other buddies just buy a 7200rpm hd or better for the same result and less cost.
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Technically yes, this is faster. However, if you split you User folders up and put them on the 1TB partition like I did (I have a bad habit of dropping large quantities of stuff on the desktop), then overall your system will run about as fast as if you were using a hybrid drive. If you can keep everything situated on the 120GB SSD partition, then your system will run much faster than if you were to use a hybrid drive.
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This person was confused. You're right... SSDs cannot have a mesaurement of RPM since they don't spin. Furthermore, the ASUS EB1007P-B0040 comes with a conventional HDD and not an SSD, so unless they upgraded the drive to be an SSD, it should be a conventional 320GB HDD.
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SATA 2 has a maximum real-world transfer rate of 300 MB/s while SATA 3 raises this maximum limit to 600 MB/s. However, even the current fastest and most expensive 15,000 RPM drives are only able to achieve transfer speeds of about 200 MB/s. So whether the drive is SATA 2 or SATA 3, you won't see a difference in hard disk speeds, even the new SSD (Solid State Drive) drives usually can only go up to 280 MB/sKeep in mind that the SATA is the interface but the hard disk itself has it's own speed limitations, so in this case having a SATA III interface won't give you any benefit.
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MZMPC256HBGJ Samsung mSATA SSD Drive (also known as a the Samsung PM830 mSATA 256GB) is the one that came with my laptop. I'm getting read speeds of 450MB/sec and write speeds of 265MB/sec.
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yes.my desktop was just like yours(sata ii,hdd with 7200rpm) before i bought this ssd. after i using this, softwares like PS,Maya run much faster than ever before. u should try it just like i did. p.s. one thing u should know is other part of your mobo (cpu, ram) may restrain the performance of sdd.