“is it wise to switch out 1 tb hard drive for SSD I have heard tell from savvy computer websites, Tom's and others that this laptop is great but the hard drive lags a lot and slow and mentions one should switch it out for an SSD to hold large programs like Adobe CC and Spotify. I really like this laptop should I do this right off the bat when I purchase it, even before i start it up? or keep it the way it comes and why?”
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I think we all should upgrade HDD to SSD. It's just waste of this computer to run on a HDD and waste our time in the long run. I would start up with the HDD to create the bootable disk out of Windows 10 and work with for a month probably, and then do a clean install. You want to make sure everything works fine before affecting the guarantee on the product.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Cheapest, non-hybrid 1TB SSD I could find on Amazon was $275.00. Certainly not cost prohibitive but it's not like you will get a credit for dumping the OEM drive inside. I would love an SSD and maybe at some point I might swap it out but so far the speed of the HDD has not been an issue. In fact, my computer game, easily the largest most demanding application on my Q552U, loads much faster than it ever did no my old 2011 i3 rig and that had a 7200 rpm HDD.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Whle a SSD drive is faster....it is a LOT more expensive at this point. The computer and HDD it comes with is plenty fast...when the prices dome down in the future I would be more likely to try them. Duability of HDD is known at this point but the SDDs are so new their reliability hasn't had enough time to ;prove them as reliable. They probably are fine but again...expensive. A 1 TB is pricey. I am a professional photographer and Astrophotographer and use Photo Shop CC which runs like a dream on the ASUS. The screen is particularly good. I find that it can be setup to be just as accuirate as my calibrated monitor so often don't even fire up the big monitor. In Photo Shop CC the HD isn't supposed to be doing much except storing your work....the NVIDIA 940M processor, 12 GB of memory and I 7 processor are doing the heavy processing. That is why you go for the 12 GB of memory...or even more when using PS. My friend uses 36 GB on a work station.If the HD is getting overworked that is because you don't have enough memory and it is using the HD in place of that memory.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I did exactly this, and do with any laptop I buy. It is preferable to do it immediately because the SSD will be totally blank (no copy of WIndows preinstalled), so any time you spend configuring your laptop before putting in the SSD will be lost when you reinstall Windows (unless you use imaging software like Clonezilla). Aside from the performance benefits, there are durability benefits; SSD's have no moving parts, so they aren't sensitive to being banged around in a travel bag. In my experience (I'm a systems administrator) the HDD is usually one of the first things to go on laptops.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I bought this with the intent of switching out the HDD. Set it up using the supplied HDD...was painfully slow. Put in a 1 TB Samsung EVO SSD, and now have capacity and speed. If I had to keep the HDD, it would have been a deal breaker.
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