Laptop mSata

[kb5zue]

I have an Acer Aspire 7741g-6426 notebook with an Acer JE 70_CP motherboard.  This board supports an mSata 50.8mm drive so I have been looking around for one to put the OS on while saving the internal 640gig HDD for the rest of the software.  This machine is not used for any games, just browsing and some office work to include Libre Office typing.  I see the mSata at Newegg that are branded Biwin, Kingdian, and Kingspec.  Since the only thing I will be using the mSata for is the operating system I figured I won't need anything larger than 64 gigs.  I figure 64 should be more than enough to cover the OS and any future updates that Mickeysoft comes out with during the life of the machine.  What I am not sure about are these brands.  And since I live on a fixed income I need to keep my costs down.  Looking in the $50-$60 range.  Would really appreciate any advise that fellow LTT'ers might have concerning these off brands.  Thanks a bunch and hope all have a good New Years.

[knightslugger]

I think you should start looking for regular 120GB SSDs and pull that aging 640GB HDD out of there. Not really sure how much data a browsing or word document type of productivity would take up on your end, but you're really not getting your money's worth in a mSATA solution. I have never heard of those brands before... tread carefully.

[kb5zue]

9 minutes ago, knightslugger said:

I think you should start looking for regular 120GB SSDs and pull that aging 640GB HDD out of there. Not really sure how much data a browsing or word document type of productivity would take up on your end, but you're really not getting your money's worth in a mSATA solution. I have never heard of those brands before... tread carefully.

I would love to go with an SSD and I could probably swing that if I take the money from this month and wait until next month to make the purchase so that would give me, say, $110-$125 give or take.  But my main concern with going to SSD is the BIOS.  I have the latest BIOS but it is still old give that it is dated 2010.  Going SSD would be an easy upgrade too, just concerned about the BIOS.  Current drive is a Toshiba, 640 gigs but with an SSD, I'm not worried about losing space going to a smaller drive because I don't really use maybe a quarter of the drive.  Just worried about the BIOS.  What do you think?

[knightslugger]

I think you're worried about nothing. Why would the BIOS care? something unique? You can get 240GB SSDs for about $70 on newegg.