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Suitable HDD replacement for Asus K601j laptop

Lord Pantaloons
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I need suggestions for a relatively inexpensive SSD to replace the HDD in an Asus K601J. It's my mom's laptop and as it stands now it takes more than five minutes to become usable. I've tried every software trick I know but I can't make it any faster(it used to take ten minutes). It doesn't have to be big as she has a lot of external storage for all her data, I would also like suggestions for decent USB to Sata converters.

 

 

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Pentium T4400 2.2Ghz

4GB

500GB HDD

Win 7

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What capacity do you want?

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What capacity do you want?

Well 60 would be cheapest but these days a 120GB isn't much more, like I said the capacity isn't too important as she has a ridiculous amount of external storage. I was worried more about what form factor SSD would fit, I've heard that some are as thick as 7mm and I don't know what size this laptop can accept.

-The Bellerophon- Obsidian 550D-i5-3570k@4.5Ghz -Asus Sabertooth Z77-16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866Mhz-x2 EVGA GTX 760 Dual FTW 4GB-Creative Sound Blaster XF-i Titanium-OCZ Vertex Plus 120GB-Seagate Barracuda 2TB- https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/60154-the-not-really-a-build-log-build-log/ Twofold http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/121043-twofold-a-dual-itx-system/ How great is EVGA? http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/110662-evga-how-great-are-they/#entry1478299

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I need suggestions for a relatively inexpensive SSD to replace the HDD in an Asus K601J. It's my mom's laptop and as it stands now it takes more than five minutes to become usable. I've tried every software trick I know but I can't make it any faster(it used to take ten minutes). It doesn't have to be big as she has a lot of external storage for all her data, I would also like suggestions for decent USB to Sata converters.

 

 

Specs

Pentium T4400 2.2Ghz

4GB

500GB HDD

Win 7

 

 

Hey Lord Pantaloons,
 
What size are you looking for the SSD? Have you considered a dual-drive for that laptop? I could suggest checking out WD Black2 which combines a 120GB SSD with a 1TB HDD all in one that would fit your laptop, boost it's initial booting speed and still provide you with 1TB storage space. You have the freedom to choose what goes on the SSD part and what on the HDD (OS, games, files, media). Here's a link to that: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1190.
 
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