Old laptop SSD upgrade?

P4Clock · 13 Oct 2013 at 00:18

Right the wife as a Compaq CQ60 - i have added 4gb of ram and a Pentium t3400, and over the stock 1.5gb ram and Celeron CPU. it feel smoother and more responsive but the thing still feels slow. would adding a cheap SSD give it a kick up the ass?

thinking of adding Crucial V4 64GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive
i know there not the best but the laptop is a long way from been the best.

Stock drive Toshiba MK2552GSX 2.5" 250GB 5400RPM SATA 8mb Cache

and i know that 64gb would be fine for my wife's use as there laptop now stands at using 51gb that without my cleaning all all the old files

kefan77 · 13 Oct 2013 at 00:28

you can get 120GB Kingston V300 for around £64, that's your best bet.

P4Clock · 13 Oct 2013 at 00:43

kefan77 said:
you can get 120GB Kingston V300 for around £64, that's your best bet.

that was not the question lol, you can get new OCZ Vertex 2 120gb for £42. the question is would it be worth doing on an OLD laptop.

wazza300 · 13 Oct 2013 at 00:55

what operating system? if xp you wont have trim support which helps maintain the drive,you'll have garbage collection though

it will transform any pc regarding speediness for everything

don't pick the crucial v4 though,they are dire performance the m4 are much better

kefan77 · 13 Oct 2013 at 01:07

P4Clock said:
that was not the question lol, you can get new OCZ Vertex 2 120gb for £42. the question is would it be worth doing on an OLD laptop.

yes, but not with Vertex2, V4 or other junk.

and I doubt that Vertex is new, it's surely a refurb /aka failed once already/

P4Clock · 13 Oct 2013 at 01:27

wazza300 said:
what operating system? if xp you wont have trim support which helps maintain the drive,you'll have garbage collection though

it will transform any pc regarding speediness for everything

don't pick the crucial v4 though,they are dire performance the m4 are much better

win7 64 bit i had to put a 64bit on when i put 4gb of ram in so i went with win7

i think the mobo in the laptop is only Sata 1 or 2 so i just didnt want to pay for a sata 3 drive that would not get used a full speed, but i do see the read/write speeds of the v4 are very slow now i look.

Dervious · 13 Oct 2013 at 10:22

P4Clock said:
win7 64 bit i had to put a 64bit on when i put 4gb of ram in so i went with win7

i think the mobo in the laptop is only Sata 1 or 2 so i just didnt want to pay for a sata 3 drive that would not get used a full speed, but i do see the read/write speeds of the v4 are very slow now i look.

If you have Win 7, I would recommend an SSD upgrade. As you haven't got SATA III, you might want to opt for a cheaper (maybe) SATA II SSD. Having said that, if a SATA III SSD is not much more expensive than a SATA II, there's no harm in paying the bit extra. It will be an advantage if you move the SSD to a newer laptop or PC, and you get the benefit of having a "newer" SSD which, in theory, could give you better reliability and maybe slighty better performance (despite the SATA II "bottleneck").

Samsung 840 EVOs seem to be good drives, and are very good value for money.