Fiel Wrote:What is your current budget?:
$250~$300
What part are you looking for? Why do you need it?:
1/ A reliable 60~120GB SATA-300 SSD.
2/ A reliable 500GB~1TB USB 3.0 External hard drive. Also accepting bare drive + chassis recommendations. I'm thinking a vanilla 2.5'' drive with SATA II - USB 3.0 interfaces enclosure. Can someone check what internal interface this box uses? I can't find the SATA connectors anywhere in that internal view picture.
What parts are in your current computer? Be as specific as possible. Links to Newegg/Tigerdirect are best. If you have a pre-built, include the make and model.
Acer Aspire 5750. I assume this will be more helpful.
Stock RAM replaced by these.
How do you intend to use this new part or new computer? What's the heaviest load it's likely to encounter?
1/ Just typical boot drive for Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit and major apps. I'd tinker with dualbooting Ubuntu 11.04 if the space allows it.
2/ Data backup, OS image storage, general data storage, not a lot of heavy junk like movies, but not completely void of it.
If you live anywhere other than the United States, please indicate your country.
Nope.
A 120GB SSD will most typically cost $200 at the lowest, so I'm willing to go for 60~80GB (as stated) for economical advantage. Speed is the second-most important factor, but I'd take something close to 200MB/s read/write as acceptable. I'd like the most reliable drive known in history, though. The failure rate scare the crap out of me.
I've also never done OS backup and restore (when things went bad enough, I just opted for a fresh reinstallation) so I'm not confident I'm doing this right. Is there a concrete fool-proof procedure for migrating all of my OS and data (or at least just the OS, since Acer didn't give me the installation disc) to a new drive?
I imagine an "Image backup" would do the trick, wouldn't it? I'm just not confident it does what I'm expecting it to do.
But in the case it does, some files that were previously fragmented to the end of the HDD would cause some problems, wouldn't they?