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February 29th, 2012 23:00
SSD in VOSTRO 3500
Are there any DELL-approved SSD replacements for the hard drive in my 3500?. Any reason that popular SSD will not work?
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cigtoxdoc
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March 6th, 2012 19:00
Here is the experimental evidence for my DELL Vostro 3500. Used a Crucial 120 GB M4SSD with Cloning siftware and USB to SATA cable. Took about an hour in all to copy data (60 GB) from existing hard drive to SSD using cloning software provided. Hardware-wise, drive was a perfect fit. Ran perfectly onfirst attempt. Boot-up and shut-down speeds are very fast. Well worth the $200.
John
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April 12th, 2015 11:00
I am on my third SSD on my Dell Vostro 3500. I replaced because it was two small. The second one I replaced because of a drive failure that I later found was due to an inherent problem with that particular brand-style of drive. I am currently running a 480 GB Intel 730 series SSD. This SSD is one-half Ubuntu 14.04.2 64-bit, and the other half of the drive is Win XP Pro SP3. After having another brand X SSD fail I have standardized on the Intel 730 series 480 GB.
Unless you can clone from a known good HDD, you are better off starting with a fresh install of the OS. After I had the second brand X SSD fail (this was on a home-built desktop), I started on a clean install of Win 7 Pro 64-bit. After that was installed and working correctly, I loaded the Ubuntu 14.04.2 64-bit. The Ubuntu installed give you choice on boot of Ubuntu or Win 7.
Any BIOS/motherboard combination capable of booting SATA drive as is the case with the DELL Vostro 3500, should not have a problem with SSD and original DELL install CD (or for that matter an install CD for any popular Linux distro.
John
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March 1st, 2012 04:00
Any standard 2.5" SATA SSD will work.
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March 7th, 2012 14:00
Since you cloned your platter hdd to ssd then one of the first things you must do to prolong the ssd's life is to turn off the defrag service and schedule.
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March 7th, 2012 15:00
How does one turn off the defrag service and schedule? I am running XP Pro SP3
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March 8th, 2012 02:00
Hmm, since you are using xp sp3 then you are probably not maximising the potential speed of your ssd as your OS alignment may be off. Try downloading and opening AS SS and see if it says your alignment is ok in the top left corner. If it says bad then your alignment is off.
All ssds need aligning to 4k. as they use 4k pages. If the OS wants to read 4k and the OS is aligned to the partition then it only has to read one page. If it's not aligned then it potentially has to read two drive pages to get one 4k cluster. This potentially would take twice as long. All modern OS's with the exception of XP align to 4k for you.
There is software to manually correctly align your partition like Paragon Alignment Tool http://www.paragon-software.com/home/partition-alignment/index.html but IMO the easiest route is to make the transfer from spinning platter hdd to ssd using Paragon Migrate OS to SSD http://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/components/migrate-OS-to-SSD/ as it correctly aligns the OS to the ssd at transfer.
As for turning off defrag, look under services and disable defrag.
NB I am in no way affiliated to Paragon
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May 8th, 2012 00:00
You can also learn something about alignment to improve your system performance and SSD longevity. www.ssdhdd.org/.../ssd-partition-alignment.html
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April 12th, 2015 09:00
I tried to update my vostro 3500 installing a kingston ssd hard drive and it didn't work. When I reboot the system, the bios is losing the ssd mapping.
Any idea?
Thanks
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April 12th, 2015 12:00
Hi John,
thank you for the answer. I tried to install the windows seven in my new sdd drive booting the OS on it. However when the installation requests for a rebooting the system, the motherboard (through the BIOS system) loses the drive mapping. So, the funny part is that it's happening just when I reboot the system - not when I just turn off/on the notebook.
Having in mind your large experience with SSD drivers, do you think the brand might be related with my described issue? I mean, as you have a vostro 3500 with SSD driver working fine (an Intel one, not a Kingston like mine).
Thanks for your help,
Carlos.