Tiered of waiting for windows to start up? Or explorer search commands? Or the laptop to respond anyway when multitasking?
Then replace your harddrive by a SSD (Solid State Disk). These disk are affordable now (f.e 120 GB for about 50 to 70 Euro).
In this blog I explain how I replaced my disk including migration of all data by using free software.
Both 2,5 inch with SATA connection
old HDD new SDD
Western Digital 500 GB Samsung 840 EVO
=> difference mainly in reading data; 4K read speed gain is spectacular: 58 X faster !
My experience using the SSD now:
- up to 4 times faster startup and shutdown;
- much faster startup of large programs like open office;
- very responsive operating system even with heavy multitasking: no more waiting for the laptop to respond;
