YourDigitalJester
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This is from my own experiance with my laptop (specs in my sig). Its an older laptop, and it was running slow as all hell. At first i blamed the rather clunky Ubuntu 14.04 OS it came loaded with. I was right to do that, as putting Zoran OS (lightweight ubuntu 16.04 Windows lookalike) helped running a lot. But it still took an eternity to boot and shut down. I had an SSD sitting in my desk that i was always hesitant about putting in, i was planning on selling it because i wasnt sure it would be worth the time to put it in (in truth it took me about 15 minutes). Let me tell you how wrong i was.
Boot up: about 4X as fast as before. You press the power button and wait about 30 seconds, and youre at the log-in screen
Usage: My laptop always had issues with the hard drive over-heating. No matter what i did the poor thing would always be running insanely hot. The SSD never warms up enough for me to notice until ive been using it for over an hour, then it feels slightly warm.
Battery life: I roughly doubled my battery life switching from HDD to SSD. That was really important to me, as this laptop is my work/school computer
CPU Usage: Oddly enough the CPU usage on my laptop did go down 1 or 2% after swapping to an SSD.
Though, i spent 25 bucks at goodwill for mine, let me tell you it is 100% worth the cost of a new SSD for the performance boost you get. The upgrade to an SSD made my 9 year old Pentium powered laptop run like a top, and if youre on the fence, or just need a new hard drive, spend the extra money and get a solid state
Boot up: about 4X as fast as before. You press the power button and wait about 30 seconds, and youre at the log-in screen
Usage: My laptop always had issues with the hard drive over-heating. No matter what i did the poor thing would always be running insanely hot. The SSD never warms up enough for me to notice until ive been using it for over an hour, then it feels slightly warm.
Battery life: I roughly doubled my battery life switching from HDD to SSD. That was really important to me, as this laptop is my work/school computer
CPU Usage: Oddly enough the CPU usage on my laptop did go down 1 or 2% after swapping to an SSD.
Though, i spent 25 bucks at goodwill for mine, let me tell you it is 100% worth the cost of a new SSD for the performance boost you get. The upgrade to an SSD made my 9 year old Pentium powered laptop run like a top, and if youre on the fence, or just need a new hard drive, spend the extra money and get a solid state