[tills24]

I'm anxiously waiting for my Mini 10v to arrive after ordering it on Monday. I went with the stock 160gb HD. I want to get an aftermarket SSD drive, though, to eliminate worries about it bouncing around in a bag, etc.
Any experiences of anyone who has upgraded to an aftermarket SSD, or gotten the Mini with the SSD drive from Dell would be greatly appreciated. Does it run cooler than the traditional drive? Would you recommend changing it, or am I being too paranoid?

Thanks in advance all,

Jeff

[Z25MN6]

Check it out before pulling the trigger: Soul Solutions Blog - New Laptop Hard Drive 5400 beats 7200 and SSD?

[tills24]

Thank you Z25MN6. That was an interesting link. I'll stick with the stock 160 gig HD now. Kingston's 64 gig SSD is $150, but from the article, it seems like that might not be a quality drive.

[Z25MN6]

Not sure I agree with Kingston not being a "quality" drive. Kingston drives are made by Intel, and the Intel SSDs that I've bought for work are all top notch.

The real issue I've found with SSD's is that you had better have a computer (cpu/video card combination) that is capable of keeping up with an SSD before you will find a big difference. I've popped an SSD into a 10v, and really didn't see the kind of eye-popping difference vs a traditional HDD that I saw when putting that same SSD into a laptop with a fast Core2Duo chip and 4gb of RAM. I've found the bottleneck on the 10v isn't the HDD; it's the Atom processor.

So, all other things being equal, my point of view says that rather than put almost as much money as you paid for the 10v into an SSD which will of necessity be small, spend a third of the cost of the computer on a huge (say, 500gb) drive, load it up with multimedia files, and have a ball. For example: Newegg.com - Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT 500GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive

[tills24]

I meant the drive's quality in terms of it being MLC vs. SLC, not disparaging Kingston drives.

Yeah, I've thought of getting a huge drive, too. But for what I plan to use the mini for (school work, notes in meetings, surfing), I'm not sure if the bigger drive would be a need, either.