Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: Gypsy_Joker on November 18, 2015, 06:04:59 PM
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Hi,
My computer is slowing down a bit after all the years of use, anyway i am certain that adding an SSD is all i need to do to make it quicker again, bit since i do not have lots of money to throw at this PC at the moment i have found one that i can afford and i was wondering if i can get a second opinion on it. and i'll keep the 1tb in there just for all the junk i have.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/161769404989?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
Note: This is Aud currency and AU eBay.
Thanks in advence. :)
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Before you invest money consider:
What hard drives do you currently have?
They do wear out and in time run slower because of error recovery.
(This has been well documented elsewhere.)
Do you have a spare hard drive? If so, clone your system onto the spare and see if the spare drive performs better.
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I have used that model Sandisk SSD in a Dell laptop from 2010 and it did speed up boot and program start times very considerably. I bought it from a walk-in store in the UK. Any computer with a spinning hard drive will receive benefit from moving to an SSD. AUD 70 is about 45 UK pounds; I paid UKP 49.99. I would just go for it. At current SSD prices it's a no-brainer.
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I moved all my machines (apart from my fileserver which needs lots of storage and my router which doesn't need disk performance) to SSDs from high end, new machines all the way to a 2008 ThinkPad T400 and it made a massive difference in all of them. Hard drive only machines now feel noticeably slow to me.
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Thanks for the replies, i have ordered this morning, i will post again if i break my PC haha
:)