Guys, do you think I should bother putting an SSD I have laying around into a laptop with only a 1.3 ghz dual core processor and 4 GB ram?
Is it worth it?
I plan to sell the laptop.
It'll make the laptop a bit quicker ... assuming it's the OS drive and not a secondary... and maybe get you a little more for it....
But the laptop would be limited to 120 GB. No bay for an extra storage drive.
Only options for more storage would be an external usb drive, or an SD card.
Guess I should have said so in the OP.
Indeed. You could offer a price on it with one or the other option...
Then you throw in one of these with the deal.... [and double the price]...
[It's a 1 TB SSD external for USB3 ...great piece of kit...
Wow, small! And cool!! And, I'll bet, expensive. I do have a few 1 TB portable HDDs. I could add one ot those to the sell.
Hey Jim, a lot of modern day laptops and 2-in-1s come with 120 - 128Gb SSDs as standard. My HP 2-in-1came with just 128Gb SSD and is one of their more popular models. Yes, an SD card can be added for Extra storage, but they're slow and a portable external would serve better.... speed-wise and for storage capacity.
so in short, the answer is yes, you should bother. The overall performance boost over a platter drive would make it worthwhile.
Damn, Jafo, that cool looking external SSD is only $347.00 on Amazon....
It was $570 AUD here ...
...but it works...
Not if you'd have to buy the drive to do it, unless you'll be using it yourself enough to get your money's worth before you sell it.
I already have the 120 GB SSD. $44.00.
Thanks everyone, but I sold it as is. Less money, but a no hassle deal. Got it yesterday, sold it today.