I need to turbo charge my lappy

JethroUK

I need to turbo charge my lappy

thinking about a new solid state drive (SSD) 250 GB

anyone taken then plunge?

does and fonts

best brands?

Deru

People say don't go for OCZ. Don't know if they've improved since. Crucial may be good.

If going for Samsung 840, go with Pro as it gives much better write speeds although if not within budget, the 840 will still be better than a mechanical drive in terms of boot time. Otherwise, Samsung 830 Series. The 840 Pro gives you 5 years warranty. Others give 3.

SandDisk are also good.

I have a Samsung 840 Pro 500GB in main laptop (Samsung Chronos Series 7). SandDisk 256GB (still need to install in PC), and 128GB Samsung something SSD in my Samsung Ultrabook, plus a spare, which can go in one of my other laptops. Performance is improved in terms of boot time and program loading time. Boot time is about 15 seconds for me in Win7. Others have gotten a bit faster in Windows 8.

Just make sure you're not running Tune Up Utilities with a scheduled defrag as that just froze my laptop every time it was set to run (I disabled it after the discovery). It ran okay in the original non-SSD drive.

aerostar

Whilst the speed of the SSD will improve disk read and writes, the final link is the processor and onboard memory which of course will still work at its original speed.

JethroUK

Laptop is a bit old but it was my Dads so I'm reluctant to replace it

Originally designed to run on Vista

I have maxxed out the memory, Its on Win 7, startup process is down to minimum

It just really sluggish to boot up and it even sounds like the HDD clanking and churning maybe the bottle neck

Its not my primary computer so storage is not a big issue

Just heard about SSD and it sounds like my last option really and could be just the KUTA it needs

This is in my basket at the mo and thought the price was good for 200 gb

closed

assuming the hard drive isn't faulty (run chkdsk), and it has 1GB of ram or more, it shouldn't be slow to boot up (fresh install should boot in 30-60 seconds), post a hijackthis log, or backup data and reinstall W7

securityguy

aerostar wrote: »

Whilst the speed of the SSD will improve disk read and writes, the final link is the processor and onboard memory which of course will still work at its original speed.

How many people are CPU or memory speed bound?

Step one: max out the RAM.

Step two: fit an SSD.

debitcardmayhem

securityguy wrote: »

How many people are CPU or memory speed bound?

Step one: max out the RAM.

Step two: fit an SSD.

Step three: Use Linux , live happily after

yangptangkipperbang

From the description it would appear to be a fairly "elderly" machine - probably with a pretty small HDD.
The first thing to do is get rid of all the junk, both data and programmes, that the existing HDD will have collected over the years. Then think about more RAM...............

JethroUK

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

From the description it would appear to be a fairly "elderly" machine - probably with a pretty small HDD.
The first thing to do is get rid of all the junk, both data and programmes, that the existing HDD will have collected over the years. Then think about more RAM...............

Like I say - Its now running Win 7, ram is maxxed out, startup on minimum files

SSD is now on order - looking forward to a spritely lappy

Stooby2

Yep avoid OCZ - bought a 128gb SSD and it was hopelessly unstable. Had to send it back - replacement was the same.