The official system requirement for its installation is 48GB of free storage space.Īnd that’s pretty much it when it comes to disadvantages of SSDs. Take the latest game Titanfall for example. For some gamers, relying on smallish solid state storage is virtually impossible. On the other hand, those who want to keep their movie and music libraries on laptops probably won’t be happy with only about 45GB of space when you exclude Windows installation on the drive.
Some users, especially those who primarily use cloud storage for their files and online video streaming services instead of locally stored video files, are fine with having such a constrained local storage. For instance the 480GB Kingston V300 is almost $300, while a 500GB 5,400rpm 2.5″ laptop HDD can be found for as low as $50, still cheaper than the 60GB V300. Its pricing is still high in comparison to mechanical storage, despite significant price drops of the former in recent years. That’s obviously the biggest drawback of switching to SSD tech. Basically, this was a storage upgrade of the L520, although capacity actually decreased more than 5 times. For this test, we’ve used an old Lenovo ThinkPad L520 (2012 model) laptop with an Intel Pentium processor and 4GB of RAM. We’ve put the Kingston V300 with 60GB capacity, which sells for about $60 at the time of this writing, against a Seagate Momentus 320GB hard drive at 5,400rpm. Even the budget Kingston SSDNow V300 Series SSD we used in our test will make significant difference, not only in benchmarks but also in the real life use.
There’s no doubt that any SSD you can find on the market today as a traditional hard drive replacement will save you lots of precious time when copying files, loading games, or waiting the system to boot up. If you haven’t upgraded your laptop’s hard drive to a solid state drive yet, this quick comparison between the two will show you what you’re missing performance-wise, but also downfalls (actually a single downfall) of the newer generation of storage.
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