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Joseph
Joseph asked in Computers & InternetHardwareLaptops & Notebooks · 5 years ago

Would an SSD improve the speed of an old and low spec laptop much?

My girlfriend's mom gave me an old laptop. It's a Toshiba Satellite C655D laptop. Had Windows 7, which I upgraded to Windows 10. It has an AMD C-50 processor running at 1 GHz, 4GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ram, and a 250 GB HDD.

I ran a timer, and it took a little over a minute to boot all the way to the desktop. My question is if I replaced the HDD with a cheap 250GB SSD, would it improve load times at all? I'm thinking it really wouldn't, because the rest of the hardware is fairly slow.

I'd mainly use the laptop just for web browsing, writing code, and I'll probably see if it'll run Brutal Doom. This is not my only computer, I'm kinda just curious if an SSD would help anything.

What do you guys think, would an SSD be worth it?

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Yup, I made a similar upgrade to my own old Toshiba laptop, and the SSD does make what would otherwise be a tedious laptop, a liveable laptop. I used to see full boot up times approaching 2 minutes with a hard drive, but with the SSD, it's about 20-25 seconds.

    I would also consider upgrading it to 8GB of RAM. Together, the two of them will add another 3 years of usability to this laptop.

  • Fred
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    You would do better increasing the size of the HD and upping RAM to 8 gig.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    It might not recognise the drive.

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