<p dir="ltr">Really the first thing you should do is increase the ram, this will give you the biggest boost</p>
<p dir="ltr">How much ram can the laptop hold ?</p>
<p dir="ltr">That will prevent most all disk swapping which is what really slows a system down, and less swapping would decrease wear if you do get an ssd.</p>
<p dir="ltr">An ssd will shorten your boot time, but not by much with the latest systems, my centos 7 boots in about a minute from HDD.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It will also decrease loading times for programs from disk, but how many programs do you start up in a day? You may gain a few minutes but not an hour or two.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you are writing lots of data, this will speed up because the writes are much faster than an HDD, but then you start wearing out the disk faster.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ssd's are good for increasing transactions per second like in a database, some place where lots of reads and writes are going on. If you're a big company you can afford to buy lots of ssd's and get the benefit of all that throughput.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you are reading email and browsing and maybe some libre office, I don't really think it pays to get an ssd for your system disk.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you want to compare them, get a cheap 128gb and duplicate it to an HDD and spend a week on each. See how much time you gain.<br></p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 29, 2016 9:09 PM, "Stephen Partington" <<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">But not an inconceivable amount more. I mainly suggest it because of the warranty. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 29, 2016 8:06 PM, "Keith Smith" <<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thank you for your feedback Stephen!!<br>
<br>
I assume you are recommending Samsung Evo 850?<br>
<br>
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)".<br>
<br>
The cost more too.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 2016-02-29 09:44, Stephen Partington wrote:<br>
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The lifespan will depend entirely on the number of Writes the drive<br>
will incur. The first thing you want to do once the Os is installed is<br>
to reduce this. If you have enough ram and are comfortable with nos<br>
wap go for it. If you want the backup i would suggest pushing<br>
swappiness all the way over so that it is used only if there is no<br>
ram.<br>
<br>
Most SSD's will give you a 3 year warranty. Samsung with their Evo 850<br>
drives and the new vnand are offering 5 year warranty. (they are also<br>
wicked fast).<br>
<br>
That being said. with minimal writes I have seen older SSD's last for<br>
much longer than their supplied 3 year warranty (I have one that is<br>
pushing 6 right now).<br>
<br>
With an SSD the general user experience will be pretty good, but<br>
Anytime you run updates it will still crawl, regardless fo the SSD :-)<br>
<br>
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:49 AM, Keith Smith<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
<br>
I have an older laptop. Not sure when I bought it. I'm thinking I<br>
bought it before 2009, however the CPU is an AMD 3300M which<br>
according to what I am reading was not in production until 2011. It<br>
has 4G of RAM and a 500GB HD. It's running Win7, which is a little<br>
slow.<br>
<br>
I was thinking of replacing the HD with an SSD and potentially<br>
making it into a "Chromebook".... (Thunderbird/Libre Office/ Chrome<br>
Browser) I'm reading the SSD's are 10x faster than the HD. There<br>
has been prior discussions about breathing life into old hardware by<br>
replacing the HD with SSD and installing Linux (now we are on<br>
topic).<br>
<br>
Initially I was thinking a small SSD since I will probably never<br>
use this laptop in production... But you never know. If these mods<br>
work out I might dual boot it - Win7 / Mint 17 KDE.<br>
<br>
Newegg is selling a 240G Kingston SSD for $65 which is probably way<br>
more storage than I would ever need.<br>
<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820721108" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820721108</a> [1]<br>
<br>
What type of lifespan should I expect for an SSD with moderate<br>
usage?<br>
<br>
Anything specific I should be looking at?<br>
<br>
Thank you so much for your help!!<br>
<br>
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