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    hi, just after a quick bit of advice on a new laptop hdd for samsung RF711
    any drives that a good buys at the moment?
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    I always go for Seagate when I want a lappy drive, not had any issues over the years with them

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    Do you need a lot of storage and how fast do you want it to be? I don't even consider HDD anymore unless there are high data requirements and even then I suggest an external for storage as SSDs are so cheap now and the performance difference is night and day. Samsung 850 Evo is what I have in my PC and the 950 Pro NVMe in my laptop. The 750 Evo is essentially the same as the 850 but cheaper, just has less warranty.

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    have to agree with evilsatan, if you dont need tons of space then go for an SSD, you will never look back.
    you can get a 120GB SSD from Amazon for £39.99 delivered, Kingston - used these in laptops, desktops, quiz machines etc. and they have been spot on
    You know he grew up as a little shitspark from the old shitflint and then he turned into a shitbonfire and driven by the winds of his monumental ignorance he turned into a raging shitfirestorm. If I get to be married to Barb I'll have total control of Sunnyvale and then I can unleash the shitnami tidal wave that will engulf Ricky and extinguish his shitflames forever. And with any luck he'll drown in the undershit of that wave. Shitwaves.

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    Which ones are they pal?

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    You know he grew up as a little shitspark from the old shitflint and then he turned into a shitbonfire and driven by the winds of his monumental ignorance he turned into a raging shitfirestorm. If I get to be married to Barb I'll have total control of Sunnyvale and then I can unleash the shitnami tidal wave that will engulf Ricky and extinguish his shitflames forever. And with any luck he'll drown in the undershit of that wave. Shitwaves.

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    Mystical beat me to it, but I bought this one last week (39.99 Kingston)

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00...NoL&ref=plSrch


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    Default Re: buying advice on laptop HDD

    SSD all the way. Once you used an SSD, there is no going back. I got a Samsung 500GB from Amazon for £105inc a few months back for win10, if thats any help.

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    Bought a 240gb Kingston..what's the best way to install Windows10? Make two equal partitions?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mc.dodd View Post
    Bought a 240gb Kingston..what's the best way to install Windows10? Make two equal partitions?
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    Don't know about everyone else but I don't tend to use partitions any more but since Windows 7 they have made it easier to force users to locate their data on the second partition by linking the document folders etc. to folders not on the C drive so you could do as you see fit. I don't do it as I would just slave a drive and pull data if it needed it but if you'd rather have data separate so you can just reinstalll the OS then you could partition. Equal split is probably a good idea as it allows for the updates, winsxs, installed programs and appdata folders to grow over time or give the OS 100GB and the rest to data.


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    I'd same same as EvilSatan. Stick it all on one partition. With SSD there is no benefit to seperate data for speed improvements. Thnk the last time I partitioned a Windows drive was back in '97
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