Hope everyone is doing ok during this crisis.
Due to lockdown I had to pull my old 2012/13 Lenovo Y580 out to help my kid do her studies. We opted out of getting a loaner from the school district as we knew they would have thousands of people requesting.
The Y580 is probably one of last laptops where you can upgrade the RAM, HDD without too much fuss. HDD can be pulled out in 3 minutes or less.
It runs on Windows 7, I have anti virus etc. on it and it has decent graphics, could use better RAM but my most limiting factor is disk reading / writing speed. I believe its 5400 rpm. Windows Experience score is 7.9 on all but disk speed which is 5.9 if this matters.
I wanted to upgrade it to an SSD. I am seeing SSDs on eBay for under 50 bucks for 128 - 240 GB which should be enough for me. I plan on using the existing HDD as external storage. I have got these Qs - I know there are some very knowledgeable folks over here, seeing if I could get some help.
1. I am assuming $ for $ the SSD is better value than faster RAM. Is this true?
2. Is it really worth on a Windows 7 machine - I plan to start installing some games on it for my kid, old NFS / FIFA etc. so she has some fun things to do. Other than that its browsing and light applications.
3. What brand of SSD and what type? I am not familiar with mSATA / SATA III etc. I guess my only limitation is if the SSD would fit in my 17 inch laptop but other than that are there any other considerations?
I Plan on cloning this SSD through USB and switching out. Keeping my HDD for a month to ensure my machine is working ok then wiping the HDD and using it as storage.
Due to lockdown I had to pull my old 2012/13 Lenovo Y580 out to help my kid do her studies. We opted out of getting a loaner from the school district as we knew they would have thousands of people requesting.
The Y580 is probably one of last laptops where you can upgrade the RAM, HDD without too much fuss. HDD can be pulled out in 3 minutes or less.
It runs on Windows 7, I have anti virus etc. on it and it has decent graphics, could use better RAM but my most limiting factor is disk reading / writing speed. I believe its 5400 rpm. Windows Experience score is 7.9 on all but disk speed which is 5.9 if this matters.
I wanted to upgrade it to an SSD. I am seeing SSDs on eBay for under 50 bucks for 128 - 240 GB which should be enough for me. I plan on using the existing HDD as external storage. I have got these Qs - I know there are some very knowledgeable folks over here, seeing if I could get some help.
1. I am assuming $ for $ the SSD is better value than faster RAM. Is this true?
2. Is it really worth on a Windows 7 machine - I plan to start installing some games on it for my kid, old NFS / FIFA etc. so she has some fun things to do. Other than that its browsing and light applications.
3. What brand of SSD and what type? I am not familiar with mSATA / SATA III etc. I guess my only limitation is if the SSD would fit in my 17 inch laptop but other than that are there any other considerations?
I Plan on cloning this SSD through USB and switching out. Keeping my HDD for a month to ensure my machine is working ok then wiping the HDD and using it as storage.