Transend 1inch SSD

Hi All.

I was looking a changing the hard drives in my full size laptops to SSD and came across the Transend 1.0 inch SSD drive, and was wondering if anyone has installed one in their AAO?

Along with my full size laptops I am also looking at replacing the SSD in the One I have, this all stems from having a few EEEpcs (3 now) and all fly along with half decent SSDs, even my down clocked 701 boots in just over 20 seconds and opens Ms Word docs in about 1.5 seconds, (I have optimised office) the 900's I have are just as quick.

All my EEEpcs have Nlite versions of XP Pro or XP media centre on them and although I have tried similar optimisations on the AAO these don't seem to have a decent impact on performance, it still bottlenecks in the slow Intel SSD. Although the media centre edition I have installed runs fine, (Ms docs open in 3 to 4 seconds) it's still slow and hangs if I over multi-task. So I'm looking for a half decent alternative SSD.

So any advice from anyone who has tried the transcend 1.0 zif drive would be great, I'm looking at the £50 16gb model. (although write speeds are only 10mb that's double what I have now ;-)

or if anyone can give me any advice on whether this drive should work with the AAO it would be greatly appreciated.

Details - http://www.transcend-uk.com/Products/Mo ... &ModNo=184

Thanks

Nick

 

I don't think the "upgrade" will be worth it. My SSD benches at 13mb/s write and it's still a pig pita as soon as something starts writing seriously. A 1,8" ZIF-drive would be a better option.

 

Thanks for the input, I think I was being a bit optimistic that such a sweet little 1inch drive would mend my woes with the AAO.

I guess I feel really let down by Acer :cry: as the EEEs I have write at around 23mb/s :twisted: and the second SSD drives on the 900s write around 18mb/s, which isn't brilliant but a lot quicker than my AAO

Oh well, guess I'll be going down the 1.8inch zif route.....

thanks again

Nick

 

Do it. Although not as fast as 7200rpm 2.5" drives (obviously), the 1.8" drives DO make a difference in terms of speed and they're dirt cheap compared to SSDs.

 

depending on the size LOL.
I just checked the pricing of my MK1011GAH -_- Its like arms and legs.
80GB 1.8" 5mm are gettign cheaper.

 

I was /of course/ comparing HDDs and SSDs of similar capacities. A 30GB 1.8" costs $30 or less on eBay.

 

So I'll pass on the 1inch transend drive, and I've been looking at the 1.8inch drives and will probably get the Mtron Mobi 3000 16gb SSD in the 5mm zif flavour (£140, but 100mb/s write speed) :twisted: (drool), that should give me a nice smooooooth system install

 

Report back if you try that one. Price is a bit too steep for me to try.