There is a late 2006 laptop with a 120GB 5400 RPM drive that is running rather slow. I'm wondering if it is worth upgrading to a 320GB 7200 RPM drive. I think that is one platter by now.
A laptop fom 2006 would need three things to be made useful: A 7200rpm drive, a new battery and at least 2GB RAM. Depending on the notebook, a knockoff battery could be $30 to $75. Fine.
A 500GB SATA drive is probably $60 more. Whatever the biggest 7200rpm IDE drive, it's probably $100.
And 2GB of DDR probably isn't free either.
I might spend $100 to rejuvenate a notebook, but I sure as hell wouldn't spend $150.
If you wait a little while I'm sure you'll be able to get a 60GB SandForce from someone other than OCZ for ~$100.
I wouldn't buy that one. It's supposedly an A-Data and they're shipping a non production ready firmware (per SandForce). A-Data also doesn't have any firmware updates posted yet either and it's totally unknown if they will, and then if the A-Data firmware will work on the Microcenter drive.It is already possible: MicroCenter
Read this and then see what version they're up to since then.Sandstorm has been around for a long time and the drives are fairly new. Why don't the fools have a production firmware yet? Of course I read complaints about the Corsair force, but I only had problems in RIAD. Are the Callisto 40 SSDs bad too?