Is SSD a good choice for my Asus Notebook?

[Shady]

Hello,

I have recently bought an Asus Notebook (N550JV) with the following specs

15.6-inch 1920x1080 (no touchscreen); 2.6kg; Intel Core i7 4700HQ 2.4GHZ Processor (4th generation); 8GB RAM; 1TB 5,400rpm Hard drive; DVD RW Drive; GeForce 750M 4GB Graphics

I am extremely dissatisfied with its performance and it is not a cheap machine! It lags like an ancient IBM machine when copying file....

My initial thought is that it's because of the 5400 RPM HDD..... So what are my options? Am I going to lose the 1 TB HDD if I replace it with SSD? And which SSD is best for this machine?

Thanks
Shady

 

[johnb35]

Hey Shady, glad to see you are back from the dead. The only way to do add another drive would be to get rid of the dvd drive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2MRiHuGF_E

Unless you don't need all that much storage then just get a decent sized SSD but an SSD should help a lot in performance. Also have you tried doing a disk diagnostic on the drive to make sure its not failing? What brand of drive is in it?

 

[Shady]

Thanks John, That was helpful.

I haven't tried doing a disk diagnostic, which tool would you recommend.

Glad to be back, but now I sound like a noob, I used to laugh at people like this back in the day What goes around comes around

 

[johnb35]

The program used depends on the brand of hdd you have. Each manufacturer has their own program to use.

 

[Shady]

Mine is HGST, I will check the tools here http://www.hgst.com/support/downloads

Thanks John