Much performance increase to adding an SSD to a laptop?

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Hi all,

I have a asus UL30A laptop that I am going to wipe and reinstall windows on. At the moment I have a spare 60gb SSD that I was going to sell but might use it in the laptop.

Will I see an increase in performance on the laptop or will there be not much point in the upgrade. The specs of the laptop aren't great but it's only used for browsing and some playing poker but it has a great battery life and is very light.

Specs are:

1.3ghz core duo
4gb ram
5400rpm hdd

Thanks

Matt
 
they're practically independent of each other
ssd would increase the responsiveness of the system
but a 60gb hdd is extremely limited though, cant hold a lot of media files, and some ssd tends to get unhappy and slow when they're at near capacity, so just bear that in mind too
 
I was in the same boat as you, but went for it anyway.
Not going back now though, slower than normal because Im on SataII, but Im still booting in under 25 seconds.

If you get pushed for space, open command prompt in admin mode and type "powercfg -f off". Cant remember how much it saves (at least 5GB), but it disables hibernate.
 
I can use external files and still have my desktop gaming pc so not really bothered about storage.

Thanks all I'll give it a go
 
Ive just upgraded ( desktop ) from a Raptor to a SSD an the difference is very noticeable i just wished i had up graded years ago, SSD is the new chocolate hob nob!
 
Replacing the HD with an SSD made a huge difference to my laptop. It boots much quicker, it's much more responsive running applications (especially Outlook) and the battery life is improved. I wish I'd done it sooner. A no-brainer for a laptop, really.
 
Fitted a SanDisk Extreme SSD 240GB to my M11x R3 it cold boots quicker than it comes out of resume :D

Everything opens/closes/saves/copies/moves/cuts/pastes a lot faster however it does not make the tea :D or make me any better in WoT/BF3 etc

Get one, you won't regret it, in fact l like SSD's so much l have 4 :D

Regards.

C.
 
Earlier this year I supplied a new laptop to a customer, having removed the 320gb HDD and replaced it with a Crucial M4 64GB SSD. The budget was a bit tight, so I bought the cheapest decent laptop I could find (It was an ASUS, I think, with a fairly low spec Intel CPU) for about £299.

As far as I, and my customer were concerned, it felt I could have paid at least 3 times as much for it. Booted up very fast, and apps launched very quickly. OK, running more demanding programs would have exposed the "slow" CPU, but he only wanted to surf, email and do a bit of word processing.

As far as I am concerned, SSDs are a must, in a laptop or a PC. Speed wins over storage capacity.

PS. Just read Oliver's post ^ after I posted this. Proves my point.
 
I added a cheap, secondhand SSD to my netbook and it made all the difference to it. I realise the system would always be bogged down by the Atom processor, but the SSD makes even the simplest of tasks, like Windows Updates, seem faster than my desktop. :eek::(
 
Sorry for hijacking thread....I think it was almost dead anyway...

This is my laptop..Its not sata3 if that helps

Sony Vaio BZ
2.53 Core 2 Duo
Vista Business
4GB PC2 6400S 666 RAM (2x 2GB sticks)
 
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