question about upgrading to an SSD For laptop.

[nicholastank2]

So some back story.  About a year and a half ago i bought the surface pro 5 (2017) and was introduced to the amazing world that was SSD performance and ever since, i hate using anything that has the OS on a HDD. Even got a samsung 850 evo for my desktop that i built after getting the surface pro. But my family doesnt want to spend the money too upgrade things to SSD and while i dont blame them, especially on desktop cause they would need an SSD and a HDD for mass storage. 

       So story over, now on too the question. My family does the taxes on my sisters laptop which  uses a HDD and is a constant pain (i know i sound like a snobe but thats life) but i wanna upgrade the HDD to a SSD because they dont wanna buy a new laptop. i feel like the rest of the hardware is fine. But i wanna make sure the hardware wont be an issue and will deal with the HUGE speed jump of an SSD okay enough.

 Specs are

4 GB of RAM 

AMD E-450 with radeon graphics

and a 500 GB HDD Which i wanna change to an SSD.

 

[Fasauceome]

Any system will benefit from an SSD, even though it's a dual core CPU with low performance it's still got the horsepower for webpages and word processors which means the HDD is still the slowest part (give or take)

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, nicholastank2 said:

So some back story.  About a year and a half ago i bought the surface pro 5 (2017) and was introduced to the amazing world that was SSD performance and ever since, i hate using anything that has the OS on a HDD. Even got a samsung 850 evo for my desktop that i built after getting the surface pro. But my family doesnt want to spend the money too upgrade things to SSD and while i dont blame them, especially on desktop cause they would need an SSD and a HDD for mass storage. 

       So story over, now on too the question. My family does the taxes on my sisters laptop which  uses a HDD and is a constant pain (i know i sound like a snobe but thats life) but i wanna upgrade the HDD to a SSD because they dont wanna buy a new laptop. i feel like the rest of the hardware is fine. But i wanna make sure the hardware wont be an issue and will deal with the HUGE speed jump of an SSD okay enough.

 Specs are

4 GB of RAM 

AMD E-450 with radeon graphics

and a 500 GB HDD Which i wanna change to an SSD.

 

a 240gb SSD will do well (without issue) i recommend the Inland 240gb SSD (2.5") for around 30$

[Eastman51]

Since the original HDD is only 500GB, a 500GB SSD would yield literally no downgrade in storage capacity while providing a massive upgrade in system responsiveness. But if you want cheap, 250GB SSDs are $30 for the Inland Professional ones. You can get WD or Samsung 500GB ones for around $80, but there are also cheaper options for those too.

[genexis_x]

15 hours ago, nicholastank2 said:

i feel like the rest of the hardware is fine

The whole laptop needs to be upgraded IMO

[micmc23000]

any laptop will benifit from an ssd .I have in the past upgraded my parents toshiba satelite with 3gb of ddr2 ram (not even ddr3) and an intel celeron processor it was never fast by any stretch of the word but now running xubuntu and with the ssd fitted it is now fast on most basic tasks .I got that 120 gb ssd for 40 euro second hand off a friend but since then prices have dropped a good bit . i would  still recommend if pricing seems to put them off it on a laptop that would probably be worthless than the ssd to get second hand (making sure it wasn't over heavily used through samsung magician or similar.