My trusty T500 laptop turned out to be not so trusty as the 160GB hard drive died.
Lenovo offer a maximum of 320GB but I believe it’s possible to upgrade to 500GB. Although I found pages of eBay adverts for them I would prefer to use a supplier recommended by Forum users.
[ol]- Since Lenovo don’t offer 500GB would I be wise to stick their maximum of 320GB?
If the Forum feels that 500GB is OK, can anyone recommend a reputable supplier? [/ol]
or half way between the 2 but with the extra performance of 7200rpm (though there’s a penalty in resistance to shock damage)
but if I were you, I’d SERIOUSLY be considering an SSD instead of an HDD … you’ll be amazed at the difference it’ll make performance wise, and they’re pretty much shock damage resistant as they have no moving parts.
IMHO laptops shouldn’t contain hard drives if they’re going to be used anywhere except on top of a table and they’re never going to be moved whilst powered on.
Get the Samsung 850 PRO … best SATA SSD on the market … and the reason I bought a Samsung 850 PRO 256GB a few weeks ago:
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The 840 PRO also trounced all-comers in a “tested to destruction” test (and the 850 should be even more reliable) https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead
So the Samsung PRO series are the fastest and the longest lasting of the consumer grade SSD’s and in normal use should outlast an HDD (which is why Samsung do a 10year guarantee on them as opposed to the more normal 3 years for other SSD’s, and 5 years for their 850 EVO).
Another vote for the Samsung Pro series SSD’s here - got two, and the performance increase is astonishing - cold boots are sub 10secs, and wake from suspend is more or less instantaneous. Also fitted one to a pals old HP laptop, with impressive results.
Having dropped a laptop recently (!), I can also attest to their shock resistance. The SSD survived, unscathed - the mobo was a slightly different story :-\
