Hello, I'm Cal welcome to another video in the improve or re-use your tired lap top series
great title Eh?
here is a link to the first video where I explain the reasons why and where to check to see what
Improvements you can make to your current - old
Laptop also how to install Ram
In this video. I'm going to show you how to swap out the hard disk drive to a solid-state drive
If you believe the sales pitches from the manufacturers SanDisk claim 20 times faster than a standard typical hard disk drive
Kingston claim 10 times faster than a standard
7200 RPM hard disk drive
I will support there is a huge performance increase from a hard disk drive to an SSD
I'll explain this in more detail as I play the SSD installation video
Just to keep this video a bit shorter hard disks are old tech. They rely on moving parts to store and locate information
Which makes them slow and cumbersome and more prone to failure
Solid state drives don't have moving parts as such, hence the name solid state
There is a drive that mixes these two formats together, which is a sshd
Which stands for solid-state hybrid drive which combines a small amount of solid-state typically around 8 gigabytes or so?
Along with the hard disk. These drives are faster than the standard hard disk drives, but still rely on moving parts, so
So considerably slower than an SSD. Check out this video where I'll compare some of these different drives against each other
You will find a lot of these sshd's in current laptops
This one I am removing
It's just a standard hard disk drive which runs at 5400 rpm the faster the RPM the faster it performs
I have a three terabyte
7200 rpm one in my system. The main reason they are still used is for price. They offer a large volume of storage
SSDs are expensive in comparison to hard disk drives
currently a decent
5400 rpm one terabyte small factor hard disk drive, which is two and a half inches will cost around 35 pounds a
Decent 1 terabyte
7200 rpm normal size which is three and a half inches will be the same price a
Decent 1 terabyte SSD will be around 110 pounds
It's a big difference 3 times the price nearly they are getting cheaper though
Go back around 6 months and you will be paying around 50 to 80 percent more
Go back even further and you can double or sometimes triple that price
This is what it all boils down to really price and whether you think the CPU is capable
I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of mine as I said, you will have to do a little bit of homework yourself
Remember Google is your friend use the search facility and ask it just type it in
Check to see how easy it is to open up
Someone has probably already posted a video on your laptop. On
Some old laptops the hard drive and RAM will not be interchangeable
It may be a form factor that you may not be able to purchase anymore. If
the tech is for sale you need to see whether it is reasonable
You need to work out if your particular model of laptop is worth spending the money on if you can't improve the specs
Maybe we can do something else playing retro games on it
For example if Windows 10 is too large for it to handle we can use a different operating system
Linux is lighter and performs. Well, even if the hard drive is no longer working
We can still run Linux on a USB stick. You can even play retro games on a USB stick
I will go through these in future videos, but for the moment
all I can advise you on is my laptop and what I want to use it for I
Want to use it for casual internet browsing downloading files, a
backup to my main pc. I've installed 16 gigabytes of ram in it already
But I would not have bought this this will cost about 70 pounds
new, the main thing that I wanted to do was to change the hard disk drive if I paid twenty two pounds for mine
Which is a 240 gigabyte SSD
It was on sale for twenty seven pounds and I had a five pound voucher. So it didn't work out too bad for me. I
Didn't need a large drive for internet surfing and once swapped out
I can use the old 1 terabyte drive for backing up or using as an external drive
All I need is one of these USB leads to connected it to, I'll put a link in the description for this
I could have bought a smaller Drive for around 20 or 25 pounds for 120 gigabyte one
but the 240 gigabyte one just seems better value for money a
Larger 500 gigabyte SSD can be bought for around 50 or 60 pound. So it's up to you what you buy
Depending on your needs and what you want your laptop to do
Some makers of the SSD, Samsung and crucial
for example
sometimes provide software to transfer the old data from your old drive to your new SSD
Before you install this can be achieved using that same USB lead. I didn't do this
I did a fresh install of Windows this removed all the bloatware which worked a treat for me
You may choose to do the latter option
Especially if you've got files and data that you want to keep if you're running an old version of Windows say 7 or 8.1
You can still upgrade for free via the Microsoft site
Sometimes there is a direct option from your update screen as well
If you are doing a fresh install, I recommend that you look on your device for your Windows key
Mine didn't have one but you should have a sticker or badge displaying this key
If not, there are programs out there that can help you locate this
I'm not going to go into that in this video, but I will leave a link in the description
I haven't encountered a problem with any of my upgrades when I completed this fresh install
For example Windows 10 verified the key using the info contained on the motherboard, but you may not be so lucky
Locate your key before you start to save you having to buy one
If you are going to do a fresh install of Windows 10
Check out my previous video on how to make a Windows 10 USB Drive and also the installation
If you're installing from a fresh SSD
all you need to do is insert the Windows 10 USB Drive into the port to turn on the computer and
It should automatically boot to this drive because there's no information on the SSD. I
Will be doing some more videos on old laptops. So stay tuned. I'm particularly interested in the retro gaming side of things
but first I want to do a comparison video on the mid-priced SSDs and the budget ones too
Hard disk drives might make an appearance and also an sshd just to show the the speed difference
So you could watch this before you decide buy an SSD
Also, I want to do a couple of videos on what to install on a fresh PC
Which I promised from the budget build series. If you haven't already did watch those here's a link for those stay tuned
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