SSD opinion (I wanna give a 2nd life to my old laptop)

[fer02]

Hi guys, I wanna give a second life to my old laptop, it's a toshiba (AMD E series, 3gb ram), I was thinking buy a SSD, I´ve listened that a ssd improve performance, so I wanna get one of this, nothing too expensive (maybe a 60gb or 120 gb), what do you think it would be a better budget bougth????, which do you recommend?????

 

PD. I'm not gonna play, I only want for a home use.

[ZetZet]

the cheapest one. which is like crucial m500 right now or adata has the sp600(something like that)

[Padunkadunk]

840 Evo? Honestly, any reputable brand that you can get a good price on.

[Malandrix]

Pick up a crucial or a Samsung. IF you really want to bring back life to your laptop I would go with the evo as recommended above.

[OmarM89]

any ssd will do it , i recommend going with any ssd that have a good reviews and reputation , just like the crucial or the samsung as the most successful brands out here , i'd go with crucial m500 or mx100

[Dimwitted]

With something like this look at how much you're prepared to spend on it. There's almost no upgrade path. Taking it apart will be a headache and all the components will be "special" in some way, definitely not "user accessible". That said, you're replacing the hdd not adding to it. That means you need to get as close to the size of the hdd as possible to make it work well with the least amount of hassle. If you have a 750gb model I'd stop right now. You'll end up spending far too much just buying the ssd.

 

If it's the 500gb version you will be in the window. Buy a MX100 512gb drive and clone the hdd over. Cloning is a poor choice when going hdd -> ssd but you really have no choice in this instance. There are numerous optimizations on these things that have to come across or it won't work or work very poorly. The MX100 comes with cloning software so use that.

 

All I can say is good luck.