Upgrade old laptop with SSD

[Ed]

First -  The SSD will outlast your use of the computer - even if it
becomes your new favorite toy. The life time of these drive is just
not much of a problem. When it does die, your new hotness laptop will
be ready to take it's place as the handmedown.
Second - a couple things to check - what connector does the laptop
use? most likely it is a SATA plug, good to check before the purchase.
You should also check that there are drivers for the SSD for Window7 -
isn't that one out of support?

enjoy have a renewed laptop

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Stephen Partington
<cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> But not an inconceivable amount more. I mainly suggest it because of the
> warranty.
>
> On Feb 29, 2016 8:06 PM, "Keith Smith" <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for your feedback Stephen!!
>>
>> I assume you are recommending Samsung Evo 850?
>>
>> I was looking at the Kingston because of price.  One of the ratings said
>> Kingston was not as fast as others.  You said "Samsung Evo 850....(they are
>> also  wicked fast)".
>>
>> The cost more too.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2016-02-29 09:44, Stephen Partington wrote:
>>>
>>> The lifespan will depend entirely on the number of Writes the drive
>>> will incur. The first thing you want to do once the Os is installed is
>>> to reduce this. If you have enough ram and are comfortable with nos
>>> wap go for it. If you want the backup i would suggest pushing
>>> swappiness all the way over so that it is used only if there is no
>>> ram.
>>>
>>> Most SSD's will give you a 3 year warranty. Samsung with their Evo 850
>>>  drives and the new vnand are offering 5 year warranty. (they are also
>>> wicked fast).
>>>
>>> That being said. with minimal writes I have seen older SSD's last for
>>> much longer than their supplied 3 year warranty (I have one that is
>>> pushing 6 right now).
>>>
>>> With an SSD the general user experience will be pretty good, but
>>> Anytime you run updates it will still crawl, regardless fo the SSD :-)
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:49 AM, Keith Smith
>>> <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have an older laptop. Not sure when I bought it. I'm thinking I
>>>> bought it before 2009, however the CPU is an AMD 3300M which
>>>> according to what I am reading was not in production until 2011. It
>>>> has 4G of RAM and a 500GB HD. It's running Win7, which is a little
>>>> slow.
>>>>
>>>> I was thinking of replacing the HD with an SSD and potentially
>>>> making it into a "Chromebook".... (Thunderbird/Libre Office/ Chrome
>>>> Browser) I'm reading the SSD's are 10x faster than the HD. There
>>>> has been prior discussions about breathing life into old hardware by
>>>> replacing the HD with SSD and installing Linux (now we are on
>>>> topic).
>>>>
>>>> Initially I was thinking a small SSD since I will probably never
>>>> use this laptop in production... But you never know. If these mods
>>>> work out I might dual boot it - Win7 / Mint 17 KDE.
>>>>
>>>> Newegg is selling a 240G Kingston SSD for $65 which is probably way
>>>> more storage than I would ever need.
>>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820721108 [1]
>>>>
>>>> What type of lifespan should I expect for an SSD with moderate
>>>> usage?
>>>>
>>>> Anything specific I should be looking at?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you so much for your help!!
>>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>
>>> Stephen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Links:
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>>> [1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820721108
>>> [2] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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