Last week I checked my briefcase with the hotel bellman while at a networking event and had a surprise waiting for me when I booted up my laptop the next morning...the hard drive was clicking and something about hard drive failure on the screen.
What bummed me out is this is on my favorite computer - the
HP Pavilion DM 1. The reason that I love this computer is that it's small, lightweight, has HDMI, BeatsAudio, and an HD screen. It also has 4GB of RAM which powers everything I need it to do. And better yet, I purchased it for less than $500!
So, not the hard drive is out and I have a decision to make. Go with a standard hard drive for around $60 or upgrade to a solid state drive for around $200. Given that I'm always on the go with my computer and I can't afford the time it takes to restore hard drives, I decided to pony up the money for the
Intel 520 Series Solid State Drive with 180 GB. This caused me to lose 140 GB to my old hard drive, but I use
Bitcasa, which gives me infinite storage in the cloud anyways.
So far I love it! It's absolutely silent and I can tell it's much faster than my old drive. While I had to re-install windows, it did allow me to remove all the bloatware that HP puts on it as I used a download directly from Microsoft. This could be another reason that my computer seems faster as well.
Anyone else using a solid state hard drive? I know some of you Mac guys already have them.