NB305 and SSD

I recently bought a NB305 for professional use (need for portability and battery life)

I have a question about. I would like to install a 128 GB Kingston SSDNow V-Series Disc both improve performance and independence.

My questions are, will this work SSD made?

It will give me a decent increase in performance? (the SSD in my office are wonderful)

It will improve the battery life?

The reason why I ask what should otherwise be easy to answer the questions, is that specific data for the HDD and SSD cards are as follows:

Hitachi HTS545025B9A300 (5K 500. (B) icurrently in my laptop drive:
Power plug: writing/power 1.4W
0.5W low idle power
875 Mbps (109.38MBps)

Kingston SSD now V Series SNV125-S2 / 128GB 2.5 ":"
Active power Specs: 5.2 w (TYP)
Sleep: 0.7W (TYP)
Sequential speed *.
~ 1600Mbps (200 Mbit/s). read; 160 MB/sec writing.

Now look at that the SSD is much faster, but seems to come at a cost: she uses more than 3 times the power!

Can it be good? (and same idle is higher!)

The numbers in a row are the Web sites of respective manufacturers / PDF files so you would think that they would be fairly accurate.

Of course, the SSD almost twice as fast - but "apparently" uses more than three times the power!

I look forward to any thoughts.

See you soon,.
Rick

> My questions are, will this work SSD made?
Why not? SSDS are no different from hard drives, I think you will need a SATA SSD since the NB300 series supports a SATA HDD controller

> It will give me a decent increase in performance?
Well, access to data should be faster and therefore you should see better performance but to be honest, the NB300 is a notebook where these small performance increases would not really important

> Improve the battery life?
Hmm perhaps but if yes then an improvement is not really noticeable since the disk HARD is not the main part which wastes the energy of the battery

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