What is the battery life for a solid state hard drive vs a mechanical one?
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This is a hybrid drive system SDD+Mechanical 500GB, Battery life is about 4-4.5hrs max real time. If u r watching movies and play games, 2-2.5hrs only. Run it for 4 months already. Hope this information helps...
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... all in all I don't think that the battery will make it from LAX to SYD - honestly, the battery life on full-bright screen is not impressive ... 3 - 4 hours ?? IDK, and IDC ... - it's a great ultra-book and battery life was nothing for me to care or worry about. I guess you can always get a battery extension, or fly First Class. ... or take a I-Pad Mini along for those long flights ...
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A bit additional info, when you see it is less then 10% Batt left, stick in the power adapter ASAP, it could shut off by any min...just FYI, I got 2 of this laptop, all the same...
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Kerry,How long will my tires last? Depends on how hard you use them. Same for an SSD vs conventional. You understand that a motor has to spin up little metal disks in response to certain commands when you are talking about a mechanical drive. No motor needed for SSD. Other operations (data placement and recovery are the same). Get an SSD if you can afford it. But get it for the rugged reliability not the energy savings! One engineer's opinion. BEV
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You should be good to go. I don't keep it up all the time, but I have left it connected for weeks at a time. The hard drive is out in the open so it won't really overheat, and there is a power switch on it, so you can turn it off but leave it all setup when the drive is not in use.
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I have been using WD drives for many years, and only one crashed on me. It was 100 degree temperature when it crashed. It was still in warranty, and WD is very good on warranty. In general, choose HDDs with long warranty period. This one has 5 years warranty instead of the average 1-3 years, and it runs cool. I use it as the primary OS drive for my desktop. But bad things will and do happen. So I (1) separate the programs and data into 2 HDDs, and (2) back up the data to an external drive everyday. In my laptop, I use a 64-g flash drive as my data HDD. I have a DOS macro to do the backing up. I have been using WD drives for many years, and only one crashed on me. It was 100 degree temperature when it crashed. It was still in warranty, and WD is very good on warranty. In general, choose HDDs with long warranty period. This one has 5 years warranty instead of the average 1-3 years, and it runs cool. I use it as the primary OS drive for my desktop. But bad things will and do happen. So I (1) separate the programs and data into 2 HDDs, and (2) back up the data to an external drive everyday. In my laptop, I use a 64-g flash drive as my data HDD. I have a DOS macro to do the backing up.
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The ram is soldered down so that amount you get is what you're stuck with. You can upgrade the hard drive and replace it with a solid state drive which makes the device faster, specifically the boot up time. I bought this laptop for my mom and replaced the hard drive with a Samsung 840 SSD with no issues. A SSD will also keep internal temperatures lower since the memory is flash (like your thumb drive/usb stick) vs. a hard drive which has moving parts.
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I don't knoiw why so many are getting poor times on their battery's, but I'm getting about 2.5 hours on mine surfing and watching youtube. Maby because I replaced my hd with an ssd, but I don't think that should make much of a difference in battery drain
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The solid state drive give you the performance. I just bought a second (same model) computer. Best I have used for games.
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My laptop has 1 GB Ram, 80 GB HDD and I get about 2 hours of battery life when fully charged.
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solid state drive, no. I've read that a new batch of SSD drives will be release later this year (of course) that will be cheaper and bigger. Battery life is around 6 hours, better than all other new models running windows eight. Having a blu-ray burner is nice. I couldn't find a laptop for this price that had one. http://gizmodo.com/5969012/short-battery-life-sinks-first-windows-8-notebooks?tag=windows-8
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I think that the cooling system is pretty efficient, a little noisy, but makes the work. I work with virtual machines, that demand performance without problem. The battery life is acceptable in this conditions too (2.30 hr using the processor and disk continuosly)
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Not exactly sure what you mean by this question..like useful life of the hard drive?
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All hard disk drives have spinning platters, bearings, and other moving parts, all subject to mechanical wear. Your external drive will last longer if you un-plug it while not in use. Windows 7 will eventually shut down ALL HDD's attached to the computer that are not being used; both internal and external, however, this could take about 20 minutes or so. It is best to unplug your external HDD. Steve (Electrical Engineer)
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I generally get around 4.5 hours. Most of the time I use the AC power. I use a hard drive not a solid state.
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I have had the drive as my main operating system, as well as mass storage drive for almost a year, and so far, it has been reliable, fast, and quiet. However, as the previous person responded, I am using Linux, which does put less stress on the drive and the file system is a bit better at file allocation, ETC...My experience is very positive in this environment. (Using the 3TB version partitioned into three sections)
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Sorry, but the one I purchased just want out of its warranty and it died on me 1 week later. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS DRIVE FOR IMPORTANT DATA.When I now plug it in, all I hear is a click, click, click, so it is dead. I will never purchase another one of these!
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Hi Tamara - The short answer: Hard disk drives are mechanical devices that store data magnetically. Solid state drives have no moving parts and store data on microchips (similar to how a USB drive works). SSDs are higher performing and use less power but they don't store as much data and they cost more than HDDs. So you might consider switching to SSD if you wanted faster, quieter performance and you didn't mind the lower capacity and the higher price. Also the lack of mechanical parts might make the SSD more attractive for mobile users who travel with their laptops frequently.
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Hi, unfortunately I'm not able to ensure how long it would last but I can tell you, I've been dealing with Seagate drives for years and I have never had a problem. I've been using this particular one for a couple of months now and it has been working perfectly. It is powered externally, not thru the USB, that's one thing that guarantees a better performance and long-lasting life.
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Battery life was 4 - 6 hours. I swapped the old HDD with a new SSD and battery life is now near 8 hours.