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I have a 3-year-old laptop which is slow bluescreens 3-4 times when I sign into it. I am planning to wipe it, upgrade the RAM and hopefully put an SSD in the disk drive slot?

 

You see my laptop has a slot in the side where I could put a disk drive in but instead, I want to put an SSD in its place so I can have a 500GB HHD and a 120GB SSD For OS.

Don't Disk drives run on SATA the same as SSD's? So this will Work?

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4 minutes ago, A_Nerd said:

I have a 3-year-old laptop which is slow bluescreens 3-4 times when I sign into it. I am planning to wipe it, upgrade the RAM and hopefully put an SSD in the disk drive slot?

 

You see my laptop has a slot in the side where I could put a disk drive in but instead, I want to put an SSD in its place so I can have a 500GB HHD and a 120GB SSD For OS.

Don't Disk drives run on SATA the same as SSD's? So this will Work?

You'll need an adapter usually as they commonly use a mini sata connection, also I would check first to see what speeds your sata connection is as some are only SATA II so they will be a limiting factor if you put in an SSD. Even with that though you will see a big difference in speeds. 

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3 minutes ago, W-L said:

You'll need an adapter usually as they commonly use a mini sata connection, also I would check first to see what speeds your sata connection is as some are only SATA II so they will be a limiting factor if you put in an SSD. Even with that though you will see a big difference in speeds. 

 

How would I check the SATA Speeds?

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3 minutes ago, A_Nerd said:

How would I check the SATA Speeds?

Softwares like HW monitor and their analyse tool should say what connection speed the disk drive is hooked up at.

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Will upgrading My RAM from 4GB to 8GB and putting an SSD in, improve the performance in games and boot time?

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in boot time yes - in games when it comes to loading speed - but I guess the bottleneck will be either on CPU or GPU side here for sure

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3 minutes ago, A_Nerd said:

Will upgrading My RAM from 4GB to 8GB and putting an SSD in, improve the performance in games and boot time?

Yes

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Would it be worth it in the long run?

It will cost me the same as the estimated second-hand selling price for my laptop.

Or should I just save for a PC?

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