But not an inconceivable amount more. I mainly suggest it because of the warranty. On Feb 29, 2016 8:06 PM, "Keith Smith" 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 >> 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!! >>> >>> -- >>> Keith Smith >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [2] >>> >> >> -- >> >> 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: >> ------ >> [1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820721108 >> [2] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > -- > Keith Smith > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >