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Hello I’m wondering if a SSD would speed up my system? And how fast would it speed it up? It currently is running Windows 7 but when I get the ssd I’d like to install windows 10. I recently upgraded the CPU from a Pentium to a i5 450m and the Ram to 8GB. After that upgrade it ran a little faster but not by much. I think it’s the software that’s making it slow and also windows is having a lot of problems to so I think it’s time to upgrade to Windows 10. @captainsnowball @mayer @oldturkey03 @danj @jayeff @avanteguarde @nick Heres the old CPU P6100 2008:

Hard drive: WD WD3200BPVT

The amount of gain will depend on the BUS speed your exact model has. While the drive is 6GB/s your machine may only be able to allow 1.5 GB/s. Please tell us your exact machine. You may also need to get a drive that’s backward compatible to SATA I or SATA II.

It will help remove the bottleneck from using a mechanical hard drive. So yes. It will by quite a bit.

Seeing as the CPU in the laptop is an Arrandale, it was likely made sometime in 2010. For you, this means it’s likely a SATA II bus. That’s not to say it might not be SATA III but judging from the CPU I know it’s at least from 2010 as a starting point. I also know the original CPU is from 2010, so I have a hunch that’s about when it was likely made when it was new. It will speed the laptop up, but there’s only so much you can do to a 8 year old laptop that’s near the end of it’s useful life. While an SSD will help, you’ll likely only get 1-2 more years out of the laptop before it’s time to recycle it. With that being said, the SSD can be moved to another laptop when that time comes. You also can’t throw software at the problem and fix things. If the laptop is running Vista or 7 slow, it’s likely 10 will have performance issues on the stock hard drive as well. It could be a software problem, but more then likely the age of the platform is becoming a problem for modern applications after 8 years.

Yes, night and day difference. Your probably using an old SATA 1.5 hard drive running at 5400RPM. If the difference between a 5400RPM and 7200RPM is a difference of 33% faster, then 5400RPM vs an SSD is 200-300% faster.

I plan on putting an SSD in my 12 year old Dell 6400. It runs Ubuntu but the main issue was the HDD was horribly overheating to the point I would get less than 50Mbps out of it. Even if the bus doesn’t support sata III, the internal speed will still be high. You’ll still get close to 150Mbps on SATA I. The difference will definitely be worth it. Actually, I asked this question a while back: Disk load making my PC hot n’ slow - will an SSD help on SATA I? I recommend this drive: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01F9G43W… Because it’s half the price as a Samsung equivalent.

The very least a SSD drive will draw less power from the battery so that alone is very good.,