NB305 and SSD

I recently purchased an NB305 for use at work (need the portability and battery life)
I have a question regarding it. I'd love to install a 128GB Kingston SSDNow V-Series drive to both improve performance and battery life.
My questions are, will this SSD fit/work?
Will it give me a decent increase in performance? (the SSDs in my desktop are marvellous)
Will it improve battery life?
The reason I ask what should otherwise be some easy to answer questions, is that the specific data sheets for the HDD and SSD are as follows:
The Hitachi HTS545025B9A300 (5K500.B) drive icurrently in my laptop:
Power Specs Active: 1.4W read/write power
0.5W low power idle
875 Mbps (109.38MBps)
and the Kingston SSD Now V-Series SNV125-S2/128GB 2.5" :
Power Specs Active: 5.2W (TYP)
Sleep: 0.7W (TYP)
Sequential Speed**
~1600Mbps (200MBps). read; 160MB/sec. write
Now looking at that, the SSD is indeed a lot faster, but seems to come at a cost - it uses over 3 times the power!
Can that be correct? (and even idle is higher!)
The stated figures are from the respective manufacturers websites/pdfs so one would think they'd be fairly accurate.
Sure, the SSD's nearly twice as fast - but 'apparently' uses over three times the power!
I welcome any thoughts.
Cheers,
Rick

>My questions are, will this SSD fit/work?
Why not? The SSD drives are not different from HDDs I think you will need an SATA SSD since the NB300 series supports an SATA HDD controller
>Will it give me a decent increase in performance?
Well, the data access should be faster and therefore you should notice a better performance but to be honest the NB300 is a notebook where such small performance increases would not be really important
>Will it improve battery life?
Hmm maybe but if yes then an improvement would not be really noticeable since the HDD is not the main part which wastes the battery power

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