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@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

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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Keith Smith
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