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SSD for Dell Inspiron 14R(SATA II)

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saiki4116 Original post #1
Aug 11, 2014 at 9:40 PM
Hi,

I have a Dell Inspiron 14R(i5-430M, 4GB RAM, ATI 5470,320 GB HDD). It's Hard disk is having some Physical Bad sectors. it is a 3 year old laptop, and I believe it has SATA II(3GbPS) I want to upgrade it to a SSD. As all the SSD's easily maxes out Sata 3 BW, my laptop being SATA 2, Should I go for a 840 Evo(later re use it in a PC build, when Laptop goes kaput) , or any one can recommend a cheap SSD. Minimum capacity I am looking is 128GB. I live in bangalore, if you know a local distributor/shop with a sweet deal, you are welcome.
seamon
seamon #2
Aug 11, 2014 at 10:12 PM
Don't buy "cheap" SSDs as they may fail anytime and you'll end up paying more. Go for Samsung Evo 840.