Hi,
I am looking to upgrade my netbook’s hdd to an ssd. Twofold reason for this – the netbook is extremely slow at the moment, to the point of being almost unusable. A format and reinstall of the HDD may well improve it a bit but given the price of 60gb SSDs on the member market they’re cheap enough to warrant just getting the SSD. Also I have a full laptop now so will only use the netbook when I go travelling, so don’t need the space of a larger hdd.
However not having done this with laptops before, I just wanted to double check a few things:
Below are two pictures of my netbook and its HDD. Is this a standard size and will a standard SSD simply slot into the current HDD caddy, or do I need to get a special one / fiddle with any SSD I do get?
My technical knowledge is enough to be pretty sure those are sata connectors for the hard drive – but is there any way to tell if they are sata II? My netbook is an eMachines 350 if that helps the more knowledgeable. I assume sata II SSDs are backwards compatible if not? (even if it won’t be quite as fast as normal)
I have an XP key that came with the netbook – is it relatively simple to create an XP boot and install disk on a USB stick (I have a 32gb usb stick), and then go into the bios and tell it to boot from the usb?
Thanks very much!
I am looking to upgrade my netbook’s hdd to an ssd. Twofold reason for this – the netbook is extremely slow at the moment, to the point of being almost unusable. A format and reinstall of the HDD may well improve it a bit but given the price of 60gb SSDs on the member market they’re cheap enough to warrant just getting the SSD. Also I have a full laptop now so will only use the netbook when I go travelling, so don’t need the space of a larger hdd.
However not having done this with laptops before, I just wanted to double check a few things:
Below are two pictures of my netbook and its HDD. Is this a standard size and will a standard SSD simply slot into the current HDD caddy, or do I need to get a special one / fiddle with any SSD I do get?
My technical knowledge is enough to be pretty sure those are sata connectors for the hard drive – but is there any way to tell if they are sata II? My netbook is an eMachines 350 if that helps the more knowledgeable. I assume sata II SSDs are backwards compatible if not? (even if it won’t be quite as fast as normal)
I have an XP key that came with the netbook – is it relatively simple to create an XP boot and install disk on a USB stick (I have a 32gb usb stick), and then go into the bios and tell it to boot from the usb?
Thanks very much!
