raymac46 Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 I had a chance to get a Sandisk SSD Plus 120 GB unit from my local computer shop for around $55 Canadian (that's about $42 US right now.) This is a good price for Canada so I picked one up and replaced the 5 year old HDD in my Toshiba netbook. This netbook is relatively easy to work on. Remove a couple of screws, take off the door, take out the hard drive caddy and replace the mechanical drive with the SSD. I had to reinstall Manjaro but that's OK. Not a lot of data on the netbook to back up anyway. It has made a huge difference in booting the machine and loading programs, even with the wimpy Atom CPU and low RAM capacity. I don't know if I would buy as cheap an SSD as this for any machine I really needed for work, but for an old netbook it is a great upgrade. Now I'm all set with a pretty rugged little travelling netbook. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 Intel has an SSD that has dropped to $55. http://www.amazon.com/Intel-External-Solid-State-SSDSC2BW120H601/dp/B00UL50G6W/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted April 9, 2016 Author Share Posted April 9, 2016 (edited) At these prices it's worth considering to re-invigorate an aging laptop. Even a second gen 64 bit netbook will benefit. I have a couple of older 32 bit netbooks where it's not worth it though. One (Dell Mini 12) can only have 1 GB of RAM and the other (Acer) has a strange and obsolete PATA-SSD interface that wouldn't work with modern SSDs even if you could somehow get it to fit in the unit. That machine is doomed to have 8 GB of storage for its O/S although you can plug in a normal SD card for additional data storage. Just checked and the Dell Mini 12 also has a PATA interface and a 1.8 inch drive so an SSD would be out of the question there. Only if you have room in the case for a 2.5 inch drive and an adapter would one of these SSDs be suitable. It makes a massive difference in the newer netbook though. Edited April 9, 2016 by raymac46 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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