Hey guys, my sis came to visit but shes only here for a couple of days, then leaving again overseas. Anyway she has a laptop thats about 2 1/2 years old.
Asus K53E-A1 15.6" - Core i3 2310M (2nd gen) - Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit - 4 GB RAM - 500 GB HD
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support.asus.com/downloa ··· SAQYMnvOAnyways, situation is she is a heavy user and dependent on it constantly with all sorts of heavy applications, ram usage is always high, and its a bit sluggish and I know its because its loaded with crap. Also sometimes it works normally and other times its very slow to respond. I think the HDD is ticking. She doesn't want to format (factory restore) and re-install all apps. I do that, but might not have enough time.
So I made a suggestion of replacing the HDD with an SSD into this machine, and it will significantly speed up the computer and probably add to the lifetime of the usage. Also, I'm pretty sure if she replaces it in a year or so, would be able to take out the SSD and install in newer laptop and make it run just as fast if not even faster .... (ie. SATA II vs SATA III). She gave me a budget and we were looking at these 3 drives so I need your guys' expertise in here on 3 things, please and thank you.
1. She wanted to keep the original size of 500GB, so we have decided on a size of the SSD. Now, on our budget are these SSD's good quality yes or no? And if so which one of these 3 would be most recommended to get
Crucial MX100 512GB 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SSD), Read: 550MB/s Write:500MB/s (CT512MX100SSD1)
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www.canadacomputers.com/ ··· d=073211ADATA SX900 512GB 2.5" 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SSD), Read: 540MB/s Write: 465MB/s (ASX900S3-512GM-C)
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www.canadacomputers.com/ ··· d=047474Samsung 840 EVO 500GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (MZ-7TE500BW) Read: 540MB/s Write: 520MB/s
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www.canadacomputers.com/ ··· d=062500All 3 drives are the same price-ish and same size with similar rates. Out of these 3 drives, which is best or are they all low-end and not recommended?
2. Can I do a drive copy aka CLONE HDD/CLONE IMAGE of the current HDD to SSD? I have a desktop that i can plug both the 2.5" laptop HDD and the new SSD via SATA. Now on that desktop would I be able to load some type of cloning software
ie. Acronis True Image 2014 and make a clone of the HDD to the SSD. Then put the SSD into the laptop and it will boot and function normally like it did, just with x3 times the speed? Or will this corrupt windows and mess up the computer?
If this will take care of the speed issues and I can just clone the drive and put it back into the laptop this will make her happy and go on with our Merry way.
ie. I'd like to note that the current drive is partitioned, but on the D:\ it just says data and its empty. I do not see a recovery partition in there. Which is strange it is just empty.
Roughly I see like C:\ says 348GB and D:\ says 90GB so I am assuming that is the full 500GB drive. I am ruffing the numbers here, but D:\ is empty even with 'show hidden folders' checked.
So do I delete this partition and merge it with C:\? Or Just leave it? And can I make a perfect clone without BSOD's and errors.
3. And lastly ... since the 500GB HDD will be coming out, can I just buy a USB 2.0 enclosure for $10 from CC and slap that drive in there? Then make that a regular 'backup external drive' for her for $10? She can save her crap on the new external I will make with the case and use the SSD in her laptop for hispeeds.
Hope you guys can reply asap as my time is limited, thanks for help again as usual. If I missed something, post and let me know asap.
Thank You.