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mSATA ssd upgrade?
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:13 am
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:13 am
Will a mSata ssd revitalize my 4 year old laptop enough to justify the $100 cost? Or should I just putit towards a new one.
It's a MSI Gp60
It's a MSI Gp60
This post was edited on 7/9/19 at 2:14 am
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Posted on 7/9/19 at 6:41 am to Jackie Chan
What are the rest of the specs? SSDs are the best possible performance boosters for PCs
Posted on 7/9/19 at 8:43 am to Jackie Chan
Probably. It made a huge difference in my 4-year-old laptop. In fact, it felt like a new computer.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 8:57 am to bluebarracuda
NVIDIA GeForce GT 840M 2 GB
Intel Core i5 4th Gen 4200M (2.50 GHz)
8 GB DDR3L
750 GB HDD
Intel Core i5 4th Gen 4200M (2.50 GHz)
8 GB DDR3L
750 GB HDD
Posted on 7/9/19 at 10:02 am to Jackie Chan
Yea you'll see an astronomical difference over that likely 5400rpm HDD
Posted on 7/9/19 at 11:03 am to bluebarracuda
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Yea you'll see an astronomical difference over that likely 5400rpm HDD
For sure. Head into task manager when the computer is under load and I can almost assure you that mem and cpu numbers will be low, but your hdd will be at 100%, showing to be the obvious bottleneck in your system.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 1:20 pm to Kingpenm3
Thanks. I'll try it, easier than buying another laptop
Well maybe not easier, but cheaper
Well maybe not easier, but cheaper
This post was edited on 7/9/19 at 1:21 pm
Posted on 7/9/19 at 1:38 pm to Jackie Chan
It'll be super easy. A little time consuming if you're doing a clean windows install, but the installation of the actual drive itself will take about 30 seconds lol
1tb m.2 drives are like $100 now (I was lucky and got a 2tb for $106). If you do get one that large, I would remove the old hard drive completely
1tb m.2 drives are like $100 now (I was lucky and got a 2tb for $106). If you do get one that large, I would remove the old hard drive completely
Posted on 7/9/19 at 3:20 pm to bluebarracuda
My Samsung ssd on my laptop was super easy. It copied everything over
Posted on 7/9/19 at 3:39 pm to Hu_Flung_Pu
Samsung has a great migration tool. Most of the $100 m.2 drives do not have such tool 
Posted on 7/9/19 at 11:24 pm to bluebarracuda
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If you do get one that large, I would remove the old hard drive completely
The 1tb, or 2tb?
Posted on 7/10/19 at 7:13 am to Jackie Chan
1tb
Posted on 7/10/19 at 7:33 am to Jackie Chan
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750 GB HDD
You're going to be amazed at the difference in moving from a hard disk drive to a solid state drive. It's similar to going from the bare minimum of RAM needed for Windows to something like 12 Gigs.
My boot time from pushing the Power button to being at the Windows login screen is somewhere around 10 seconds.
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