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I'm looking at this one for my 7-year-old Acer laptop:
Amaon: Crucial 500gb[^]
I'm seriously considering installing Linux on it and converting the current win7 install to a virtual machine.
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That will certainly speed your Acer up but I don't think that you will get anything near the advertised speed unless your SATA bus is version 3.0 or higher. SATA 2.0 is capped at 300 MBs.
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1. it'll still be much faster than a normal HDD, and
2. later if you update your machine move that SSD over coz the new hardware will give you that SATA 3.
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That's a really good price...almost a no-brainer! I've got an 8 yo laptop that received a SSD transplant about 2 years ago. Huge improvement! Well worth the money even then. At times I prefer it to a much newer hp laptop which seems to be haunted.
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Crucial doesn't have the reputation Intel or Samsung have for their SSDs, but I have no idea what they're talking about.
I have 4 or 5 Crucial drives, and I'm very happy with them.
The price you're looking at makes it a no-brainer, even if your laptop's bus might not allow it to run at the full speed the drive is capable of. As a bonus, being a bog-standard SATA drive, you know you can physical migrate it to another system down the road.
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All SSD is, is a different kind of memory than RAM. Crucial has an outstanding reputation for their RAM modules.
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Avoid Kingston. I've had 3 failures (out of 8) within 2 years of installation.
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I got a sandisk and it's already up and running.
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Regarding "seriously considering installing Linux on it and converting the current win7 install to a virtual machine", I am thinking along the same lines. If you do this, please let us know how that works out.
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Crucial is good brand.
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I hope you did NOT by a CRUCIAL SSD.
we will no longer install them. We have had 3 SSD Failures. ALL OF THEM CRUCIALS.
Oh, they replaced 1 or 2 of them under warranty. Useless because by then, they were too small anyways, but we did it to extract our pound of flesh.
2 of them were FIRMWARE Problems THEY CREATED by having some leftover testing code in. We used them for too many hours, and triggered the code. We use ABC: Anything But Crucial. LOL
We like the SanDisk ones, and have no problems. We replace every 3 years. Our machines are usually on 24x7.
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Nope. I pretty much stick to Intel SSDs. I have yet to have one die on their own without some external cause. I lost one when a cheap-a$$ SATA cable shorted out; sparks, fire, and smoke included. Lost most of the PC on that one
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Well, all of the SSDs have 5-ratings amounting to between 84 and 87%, so in all truth, it's a crap-shoot anyway.
There's also this one in the same general price range:
Amazon.com: Samsung 860 Evo 500GB 2.5 inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E500B/AM): Computers & Accessories[^]
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After over 35 years of experience I seen EVERY brand of every component "screw-up".
I've had problems with SanDisk SSD's - strangely slow R/W was one. Replaced with an APACER Armor - not a major SSD player - and it "screamed". So there you are?!?!
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They are - I'm using one for my current home PC. But most laptops - especially older ones - wouldn't have the interface for it.
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Personally, I'd create another partition or two out of that unallocated space...just something I've always done.
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That's what I would do too.
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Another free partition manager: AOMEI Partition Assistant[^]
I used it to migrate my HDD to SDD, and it was a painless, simple process. And it resizes partitions very nid=cely without losing any info.
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I just recently updated my laptop from a 28 gb ssd to a 256 gb ssd. Not much choice if I wanted to get a recent Windows Update to work since most of the space was used for the OS, with only the smaller applications installed on the SSD, the big ones like Office on the hard drive. What really drove me was that I had a version of Visual Studio that expired, and could not install the free version on the secondary drive. Had to rebuild the machine. Anyway, if I was going to rebuild the machine, I figured I should just put in a new SSD since 28 GB was not going to hack it.
If this had happened to me it would have been pointless since I needed a bigger hard drive just to install the OS with its newest update. On the software I used it was obvious how to increase the space to use the whole drive.
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And breathes new life into my productivity. Why they don't use SSD's where I work is beyond comprehension.
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one company I visited "upgraded" most of their desktops, of course the cheap idiots bought machines (dells "clearance stock") "2015 models" with HDD's of course.
Complaint: "these new machines aren't any faster."
Anyway a couple of the machines had the HDD's fail - just over a year so no warranty. Was a bit quiet for me so I offered to help fix them up. Quoted them SSD's, of course "why so expensive? (500GB Samsung, cheap, of course more then HDD).
Anyway did convince them to go my way... and they loved it. (nice little couple days earner for a couple hours of actual simple work.)
Only remaining complaint [which strangely ONLY comes from those still on HDD]: "when is my machine going to break down?"
(I've suggested 'accidentally spilling coffee into the box' - no one has had the guts to do it).
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littleGreenDude wrote: SSD is definitely the way to go to breathe new life in to an old laptop
That, and more RAM if your machine accepts it.
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I once had the litereally same and I brought this upon myself. When doing something similar as you did, I used dd to copy the whole disk block-wise. With the same result, the one partition was as large as it was before. The solution is incredibly simple: Resize the partition. Windows' own diskmgmt.msc is perfectly able to do so.
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