It might say the drive is ok, but I have still had drives with read and write speeds in the region of 5MB/sec pass SMART health checks.
why is this laptop running slow?
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It probably is 'ok' but those drives were never fast even when they came out. Did the machine originally come with Windows 10 ?
I don't think anyone is saying the drive is faulty.
I don't think anyone is saying the drive is faulty.
If the drive is not faulty, why would it be running slow now, compared to super speedy when it was new?
I thought win10 was on it at new, but honestly it's too long ago to remember
I thought win10 was on it at new, but honestly it's too long ago to remember
bump on this. going to purchase an SSD for this laptop.
Can someone tell me which we'd need that will fit this laptop? I've confident with my ability to make desktop pcs but have never once opened up a laptop.
Can someone tell me which we'd need that will fit this laptop? I've confident with my ability to make desktop pcs but have never once opened up a laptop.
Caporegime
You want a 2.5" SATA3 SSD.
Very simple, looks like you should have a flap on the bottom to access it:
https://youtu.be/4M4nWtFtocM
You will need to either do a fresh Windows install or clone your existing install across using either a USB device or a desktop PC.
Very simple, looks like you should have a flap on the bottom to access it:
https://youtu.be/4M4nWtFtocM
You will need to either do a fresh Windows install or clone your existing install across using either a USB device or a desktop PC.
should have done this ages ago. realised i had a 500gb ssd in my old pc in loft. took it out, 3 minutes later it's in her laptop and working flawlessly.
Caporegime
I was reading a review and the hdd in the 510 is pretty awful:
According to HD Tune and CrystalDiskMark 3.0, the transmission rates in sequential read are abysmal for a modern HDD. When looking at multimedia laptops furnished with a hard drive from the past 10 months, the not very convincing Seagate HDD lags behind the average by roughly 20% also in other laptops. Unfortunately, it looks similar in the 4K read performance which is important for program and OS starts where the head has to collect small, randomly distributed data blocks on the disk. If savings were made on an SSD, at least a somewhat stronger hard drive model could have been selected.
No wonder its better now!