janhoedt
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SSD in laptop (second disk)
Hi,
I have a second ssd in my laptop Vortex (the first one is a SATA 1TB) http://www.hardeschijfstore.be/product/134634/category-183882-interne-harde-schijven-ssd/ocz-vertex-3-120-gb-2-5-inch.html
Now regularely my OS (Windows 7) locks/freezes without any reason for several minutes. It has to be the Vortex so I contacted support of where I bought the disk. Now they told me to upgrade it, but the upgrade)tool didn't work so I can return the disk, what I will.
Now I've read some things on Internet about instability SSD in general, possibility to crash etc whereas I thought it would be really stable and couldn't crash (because of no turning parts in SSD).
So now I don't know what to do: should I buy another SSD or just add an extra SATA ....
I would like to buy my SSD or SATA here: http://www.hardeschijfstore.be/
Goal is to run as well as OS (Windows 7) as VMWare Workstation on the SSD, the other data goes on the SATA-disk. Previous test showed that fastest working was both OS and VM's on SSD! Untill I had problems with locking/freezing OS.
Note: this one looks good in results too:
http://www.hardeschijfstore.be/product/134638/category-183882-interne-harde-schijven-ssd/crucial-m4-128-gb-2-5-inch.html
I have a second ssd in my laptop Vortex (the first one is a SATA 1TB) http://www.hardeschijfstore.be/product/134634/category-183882-interne-harde-schijven-ssd/ocz-vertex-3-120-gb-2-5-inch.html
Now regularely my OS (Windows 7) locks/freezes without any reason for several minutes. It has to be the Vortex so I contacted support of where I bought the disk. Now they told me to upgrade it, but the upgrade)tool didn't work so I can return the disk, what I will.
Now I've read some things on Internet about instability SSD in general, possibility to crash etc whereas I thought it would be really stable and couldn't crash (because of no turning parts in SSD).
So now I don't know what to do: should I buy another SSD or just add an extra SATA ....
I would like to buy my SSD or SATA here: http://www.hardeschijfstore.be/
Goal is to run as well as OS (Windows 7) as VMWare Workstation on the SSD, the other data goes on the SATA-disk. Previous test showed that fastest working was both OS and VM's on SSD! Untill I had problems with locking/freezing OS.
Note: this one looks good in results too:
http://www.hardeschijfstore.be/product/134638/category-183882-interne-harde-schijven-ssd/crucial-m4-128-gb-2-5-inch.html
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David
If you have time and desire, please post a follow-up on what you learn, as so many people try to do this and usually when they go to different software, controllers, SSDs, then it works. Way too much in the database about what doesn't work, not enough about what does work together. With so many layers of interoperability issues ... it is helpful to get good combinations.