Will Replacing My HHD 280GB with an SSD 480 GB Make a Night & Day Difference?

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Peachesbackwards

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I currently have an Acer 5740 Notebook with Hitachi HTS545032B9A300 Hard drive (280GB) and have 8GB of Memory installed. I am thinking of replacing this with a 480GB Intel 730 SERIES 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SSDSC2BP480G410.

I don't do graphic work and just use my notebook for the internet, downloading, word processing, average operations. My question is, will this Hard Drive make a night and day difference as far as speed in operations , opening applications and internet speed (loading web pages) or is the difference not enough of an improvement to warrant paying $237 or so for this Solid State Hard Drive (which seems to have gotten the best reviews). Would appreciate your opinions, thanks.

If it makes a difference I still use Windows 7 and have no desire to change to Windows 10 at this point of time.
 
The SSD won't make a difference in internet speed at all. Basically the SSD is for boot times and a small difference in opening applications.
 
johnb35 said:
Basically the SSD is for boot times and a decent difference in opening applications.
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Fixed ;)

You'd notice a pretty huge difference, especially over a 2.5" 5400 rpm drive. The biggest benefit is multitasking and opening a lot of things at once will no longer be bogged down to a large amount.
 
Agent Smith said:
An SSD is the single best upgrade you can make. Just make sure your partition is aligned after installing to get optimum performance and use AHCI mode in BIOS for that HDD. If you don't know how to align a drive or use AHCI mode after the fact you are already using IDE mode read the following:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/9...o-ahci-without-repairingreinstalling-windows/

http://lifehacker.com/5837769/make-...ned-for-optimal-solid-state-drive-performance
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Thanks Agent Smith I am going to have this installed by a reputable computer place. Is it necessary for me to tell them what you recommended above or will they already know this?
 
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