Choosing the Best Hard Drive for Your Acer Aspire One AOD150

Many different options are available in regards to memory with the Acer Aspire One AOD150, from the hard drive size to the amount of RAM. You'll need to establish what you'll be using your laptop for, and decide which attributes to include in your Acer Aspire One AOD150.

How fast does your Acer Aspire One AOD150's hard drive need to operate? The standard measure of speed is the RPM (revolutions per minute), and hard drives will run anywhere from 4200 to 10,000 RPMs. It's pretty much a given that your Acer Aspire One AOD150 will perform at a minimum of 5400 RPM, but you may need to look into getting a faster hard drive, depending on your primary use for your laptop.

On a platform that needs to do things like computer gaming, graphic design, and video editing, I would recommend 7200 RPM for the Acer Aspire One AOD150. This will allow you to obtain maximum productivity from your machine, and provide the best value for your money, as you'll really get what you need to get the job done.

Lastly, how much file storage space do you expect to need on your Acer Aspire One AOD150? Will you be saving a lot of multimedia, mostly documents, or not much at all? In general, multimedia takes up the most space (0.03 GB for a song, 1 GB for a movie, and 5-15 GBs for computer games). Your Acer Aspire One AOD150 will come with at least about 150-200 GBs, but if you think you'll need more than that you should consider an upgrade.

Another option for your Acer Aspire One AOD150, besides the traditional hard drive, would be the Solid State Drive (SSD), if you have enormous amounts of files to store. They're similar to USB flash memory, except they're extremely large. The biggest hard drives are usually SSDs (such as the terabyte hard drives). It will allow you to move files from one computer to another more easily. The SSD is so named because it has no moving parts, which makes it operate much faster than typical hard drives, a real plus for anyone who'll be using it regularly.

However, I would not advise buying an SSD for your Acer Aspire One AOD150 unless you really need one because they're obviously much more expensive. In the future they may become commonplace, but right now they're the newest mass memory type and are priced accordingly. Don't just go out and buy any memory components for your Acer Aspire One AOD150, and definitely don't try to get the biggest and the best unless you're going to use it. Determine what you need, and work from there.