Laptop ASUS N550: hard drive Options?

The time has come to replace my 4 year old laptop. I took care to replace it with the recently released ASUS N550. My particular model will be N550JV-DBV1:

HASWELL of Intel Core i7-4700HQ CPU

15.6 "matte screen IPS for full HD (1920 x 1080)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 750 M 2 GB DDR3 graphics card

8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz memory

1 t 5400 RPM SATA II hard drive

I already have a desktop platform solid for the heavy work of creation, but I will equip this new laptop for lighter-duty to mobile working.

I will be upgrading the RAM 16 GB, but my question is on the hard drive. The N550 is an option for 3 hard disks:

The main hard drive can be replaced by two discs mSATA III. (A shopping cart with two slits mSATA fits into the main hard disk space.) A third hard drive can replace the optical drive.

At a minimum, I'll get rid of the drive 5400 RPM and use an mSATA of Samsung 256 GB SSD for the OS and programs. The other location mSATA will get probably the same 256GB SSD.

But what about the option of optical Bay? I can fill the Bay with a 7200 rpm or SSD drive, but the choices are many:

7200 rpm:

-1 t 79 $7200 RPM (SATA III 6 GB/s)

-750 GB (w / 4 GB of SSD memory) hybrid of Seagate 7200 RPM 64 MB Cache (SATA III 6 GB/s) $99

-750 GB (w / 8 GB of SSD memory) 7200 RPM Seagate XT NCQ hybrid 32 MB Cache (SATA III 6 GB/s) $132

SSD:

-250 GB Samsung 840 SSD (up to 540 MB/s - write 250 MB/s SATA III - sequential reading 6 GB/s) $189

-256 GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD (up to 540 MB/s - write 520 MB/s SATA III - sequential reading 6 GB/s) $239

-512 GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD (up to 540 MB/s - write 520 MB/s SATA III - sequential reading 6 GB/s) $459

7200 rpm 1 t disc looks good, just for the storage of large, economic, but I wonder if I would be interested in the next two drives their cache and the SSD? How these factors are important in a tertiary player, especially in what concerns the first?

And is there a significant performance gain to climb up to the 512 GB Samsung SSD?

John,

You still don't mention the type and duration of your project.

Other thoughts...

  • You can ignore the 'noise' as one of your criteria for hard drives 2.5 "; they are hardly a sound, including the hybrid model of Seagate 7200 RPM. Your portable computer fan is sure to be what you mean when you use a laptop for video editing, not the reader.
  • If you do not require your optical drive, most of the time, he's seen as an external device is a great way to do.
  • Relatively speaking, what you would spend for the hybrid XT 750Go (approx. 135 dollars), would be something desirable though a 500 GB mSATA on board is sufficient for your main job. The HD would be so convenient for the boot disk image backups, backups of embedded data, etc..

I'm not determined to believe that you never want or need a lot of money for a 500 GB for your platform to speed mSATA, I'm simply suggesting a solution that makes as a springboard can complete turn out to be a solution for your needs and will be a great asset to your laptop in more 2 SSD isn't fast enough.

Jim

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