I have quite an old notebook here, around 6 years. I was thinking of getting an SSD for it, as it became really slow recently. But actually I have no idea if it even supports SATA. The manufacturer info didn't help me, so I was thinking maybe there is a program that can help me find that out?
And I think you need to be careful about the height of the SSD, right? What is the usual size of those SSDs?
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- Albert Camus
hmmm.... 6yo you say?
i don't think so then but who really knows.
You should look into BIOS.
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I don't demand super high performance or anything from putting an SSD in that notebook, but right now it takes about 4 minutes just to boot and 1 minute for opening a browser and so on. The HDD becomes REALLY hot under the notebook, so I fear it might not last any longer anyway. I just want some decent performance, that notebook is for office only anyway.
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
- Albert Camus
I don't demand super high performance or anything from putting an SSD in that notebook, but right now it takes about 4 minutes just to boot and 1 minute for opening a browser and so on. The HDD becomes REALLY hot under the notebook, so I fear it might not last any longer anyway. I just want some decent performance, that notebook is for office only anyway.
...the hell?
Something's definitely wrong with that, and I think that simply getting another HDD would solve those problems.
Hell, even my ~7 yo Acer with an IDE HDD is much, MUCH faster than your laptop.
What are the other system specs?
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i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
I don't demand super high performance or anything from putting an SSD in that notebook, but right now it takes about 4 minutes just to boot and 1 minute for opening a browser and so on. The HDD becomes REALLY hot under the notebook, so I fear it might not last any longer anyway. I just want some decent performance, that notebook is for office only anyway.
...the hell?
Something's definitely wrong with that, and I think that simply getting another HDD would solve those problems.
Hell, even my ~7 yo Acer with an IDE HDD is much, MUCH faster than your laptop.
What are the other system specs?
Rest is fine. As I said, it is a 6 y/o notebook. It used to be way faster, it has gotten like that in the last 3 or 4 months. Probably really the drive failing. I can post the stats of the notebook later when I have the patience to boot it up
And yeah, I could probably just get a new HDD, but if I buy a cheap 60GB SSD it wouldn't make much of a difference in price probably.
Will try to boot the SSD up later today
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
- Albert Camus
.... and despite what everyone is saying, even an SSD at SATA1 speeds will demolish any standard HDD. Just for example on ancient HW (and including a huge delay from a PCI-SATA card)
Ok so I tried my M4 from my desktop PC, and it works. The notebooks starts loading windows, then I turned it off because I didn't want it to mess up my OS on that drive.
When I go into the BIOS is only says IDE, and that even the drive supposedly is IDE? wtf? Probably just a wrong label, as the old drive is a SATA as well.
Here are the other system specs because some of you were interested apparently:
Spoiler:
Sorry for german, but I think you can figure out the most stuff
I will report back when I have a new SSD and tried it out, if it really improves speed
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
- Albert Camus
It's IDE "Mode" -- don't worry, that's normal. You can choose IDE or AHCI modes, IDE is basically legacy access mode from the SATA controller - you're best off changing that in the BIOS to AHCI mode in order to get the best from your SSD.
I got a cheap SSD today, it's a 64 GB Sandisk. It's probably nothing special, but it was only 49€ and I figured with the low speeds of my notebook it wouldn't make much of a difference anyway.
So here is before and after:
Now THAT is what I call a difference
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
- Albert Camus
Haha, and especially the random reads, those are 33 times faster now
The SSD might be a new model. AFAIK Sandisk has 3 different models, those just called "SSD", Ultras and Extreme. The one I got is the lowest one, the "SSD".
I don't know the exact model number, as it doesn't say so anywhere. But I think it might be this one:
http://sandisk.com/products/solid-state-drives/sandisk-ssd
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
- Albert Camus
HAHAHAH! Fucking awesome, congrats Bringiton! ^_^ Quite a difference, no? Even on SATA1, you're pissing all over the old drive and believe me; you WILL notice that in general use. For a comparison, here's my fastest drive at the moment, a Western Digital Caviar Black;
Supposed to be getting 100MB/s on R/W but hey... it's me, nothing ever works as intended for me, but at least you can see the massive difference between my once-top-of-the-range non Raptor drive and your "cheap" SSD
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