monabri wrote:An SSD made a world of difference to our Dell laptops. I found that the persistent problem of a hard disc spinning at 100% constantly and the treacle like performance has been eliminated. Use task manager to check on disk usage (note, not cpu usage).
Couldn't agree more. I did this on Monday. As you say 100% disk use while it task swapped (interupt managment) between downloading office updates, firefox and running a virus scan that according to the scanner had been running for 78 hours.
A re-boot caused things to start in a different order and reduced the deadlock. Sadly despite developing software, it's a work computer. That means I have no say on replacing disks and I've given up fighting for a new computer. It is also quite old.
My personal computers all have SSD's, even the linux laptop. They are also younger, even if second hand.
Ps Clariman, replacing a hard drive is easy since you have used the likes of macrium. The most difficult bit might be finding screwdrivers, and if a laptop spudgers. Ebay and Amazon are a good place to buy. Youtube is a good place to watch someone else doing it. If it's a desktop with a 3.5 drive, you can get plastic frames so that 2.5 SSD's can fit in the same place. Or, given it's solid state you can just tape the drive to a handy bit of metal. It's easy and you can be crude if you want.