Lenovo y50-70 slow HDD

[ema21del9]

Hi everyone, this is my first post (I've been reading a lot of community threads though), I recently bought the model that comes with the GTX 960m. I've been playing some GTA V Online and the hardware works pretty well, CPU and GPU temperature doesn't go upper than 70C.

Now the real issue is the slow 5400rpm HDD, the obvious solution is to replace it with a SSD but I bought the laptop in Argentina and I fear I will loose the warranty if I open the chassis to do that.

What do you think about buying an USB 3.0 SSD or a standard SSD but use it through the USB 3.0 with an adapter?

Pd: sorry my bad english, as I said I'm from Argentina.

 

[jbaker22]

The max speed of usb 3.0 is 640 megabytes per second. That is much faster than a standard hdd. Check out this video though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maYuTnci4ys

 

[ema21del9]

The max speed of usb 3.0 is 640 megabytes per second. That is much faster than a standard hdd. Check out this video though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maYuTnci4ys

That pendrive is crazy haha, they're really expensive in my country though, what abount going for a standard SSD disk and a SATA-USB 3.0 adapter like the Anker dock?

 

[jbaker22]

An ssd is faster than a flash drive, and I think the problem he ran into was the fact that a flash drive does not have a cache like a ssd. Go ahead. I hope it works well and you don't have the csgo issue.

 

[ema21del9]

What do you guys think about this: http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Flash-Voyager-128GB-Drive/dp/B00S89FIDE/ref=sr_1_25?ie=UTF8&qid=1464115898&sr=8-25&keywords=corsair+gtx

I have a friend in Miami that can pick it up for me, is this pendrive as good as it says? is there any other fast pendrive like this out there to use as game storage?

Thanks

 

[jbaker22]

It sure does read fast, but I could get a 240gb ssd at that price. The PNY has a speed of 550mb/s read, and the flash drive has a speed of 450mb/s. Besides, are you really going to continue using a flash drive after the warranty is over?

$62 pny: http://www.amazon.com/PNY-CS1311-240GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B019H3B3OW/ref=sr_1_4?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1464120301&sr=1-4&keywords=240gb+ssd

$9.99 enclosure with adapter to usb 3.0: http://www.amazon.com/Tool-free-Inateck-External-Drive-Enclosure/dp/B00JQTO8TU/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_sims?ie=UTF8