2.5 or 3.5 ssd?

[singleshot71]

I was looking on new egg for a ssd to go into my g73jha-1 and I was wondering what size would fit it, 2.5 or 3.5? I would love to put 2 1tb ssd's in it, but looks like only for a desktop. Any suggestions would be helpfull. I was wanting atleast a 500 gb or better. I do alot of video and photo taking/editing and need alot of space. I have a few external hard drives to save space on current laptop but I would like to have everything in the new lappy so I don't have to keep track of what is in which hd. thx

[powerpack]

2.5? Only. 1TB SSD? Where? How much, $10,000?

[UntilMoraleImproves]

You beat me to it Powerpack! Singleshot, are you loaded or what? SSDs that big are crazy expensive right now! I only see one 1TB SSD on NewEgg and they are $4,000 each. The latptop starts at $1600. I have no idea whether or not those beasts will fit but I just want to understand the logic of adding $8,000 worth of storage to a rig that costs less than $2,000. Also, did you notice that there are only USB inputs on the G73JH? That means you have to transfer all of your pics and vids via USB 2.0 ports. I hope you have a lot of free time on your hands!

[drremi]

yea, 1tb ssd would be a wast of good money! I was going with 2 at 160gb but the price was too steep!
Newegg listed it just under $500.00 for the 160gb.
Will be nice when the price comes down...don't see that happening for while!

[singleshot71]

well.....i'm not rich by today's standards, but if people don't buy them now they will never come down in price, right? I HAVE A PLAN DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT!!! LOL I have a friend doing all the work and upgrades for me, he also suggested using a 256 ssd, but I would fill that up in a minute, then what? 2.0 is slow, but what I'm doing now is slow and a pain in the azz.

[TheCrazyCanuck]

Well I could think of a million better ways to spend that money like getting the processor upgraded ..... or magic beans for that matter.

Anyway that model of laptop has two drive bays. Why not leave one 500GB drive populated for your mass storage needs and install everything on the SSD (120GB should be plenty). SSDs are great for increasing IOPs but if you think spending an idiotic amount of money on an SSD is going to make the laptop twice as fast then I suggest trying out a machine that has an SSD installed to see what the speed up is. The 500GB drives these laptops come with are 7200rpm drives so they should handle large file accesses just fine.

The only applications that really get a significant speedup are anything that performs many small file access like compilers, databases, etc....

[UntilMoraleImproves]

@Singleshot71 - there are definitely better ways to handle this. I just saw a dual 2TB external drive w/built-in RAID on a site that will remain nameless for $250 this morning. Way more cost efficient than getting 1TB SSDs at $4,000/each. For the work you are doing, a G73 might not be your best option. You get a middle of the road MB, you max out at the 820 processor and (according to Intel, directly contradicting the Xotic order page) can only go to 8GB of RAM. There are other desktop replacement options that come with Firewire ports, Express Card slots, eSATA ports, etc. and run dual GPU's for better graphics performance than we're going to see in the G73. If you've got the money to blow, maybe you should consider other machines.

[UntilMoraleImproves]

BTW - sorry we got way off topic. The answer to your question is 2.5"

[singleshot71]

Thanks for all the advice, will take into consideration(unlike obama). the reason i'm looking at ssd's is because I keep dropping my laptop. The stupid thing keeps falling off the table, stupid gateway!!! you would think it would've learned by now, right? anyway, I was looking at a kingston, how good are they. will they survive a 4 foot drop? hopefully this asus will be easier to train than this gateway!!! lol

[Naram-Sin]

No offense man, I'm really not wanting to start any arguments here but if you're that reckless that you continually drop a laptop you should probably not spend any money on computer equipment period. At least until you resolve that issue. And if there is anything in this world you could spend $4,000 it is certainly NOT a SSD.

Thread is a few weeks old so you may have already made a purchase but consider reading this article if you haven't yet.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=1