I have a Dell Studio XPS 1340 which is around 2 years old but I really like it and would like to wait a year or two more before I get a new one.
However, I can see the harddrive is slowing it down quite a bit, and would like to replace the current one with an SSD.
The problem is – I have no idea what kind of and SSD I need? What type of interface does it use?
Here are some pictures:
Here's part of my lshw output:
description: SATA controller
product: MCP79 AHCI Controller
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: b
bus info: pci@0000:00:0b.0
logical name: scsi0
logical name: scsi1
version: b1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: storage pm msi ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list emulated
configuration: driver=ahci latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3
resources: irq:40 ioport:30e8(size=8) ioport:30dc(size=4) ioport:30e0(size=8) ioport:30d8(size=4) ioport:30c0(size=16)
Best Answer
According to WikiPedia the Studio XPS 13 was/is even available with an SSD. It also indicates that the drives are SATA (the fact that the computer also has an eSATA port kinda hints that SATA is the way to go).
Sadly, I couldn't find out what SSDs are originally placed in the XPS1340. But if you can reach someone at Dell, I'm sure they'd be able to tell you.
Btw, here's the official hard drive replacement guide.