Best Upgrade I ever did to my notebook

I am thinking of buying a new notebook since I find my existing one slowing down. I have done reformating it to speed it up a little but still it’s becoming too slow.

I am using an Asus K42JC notebook for more than a year now. It runs on an Intel® Core™ i3-370M (3M cache, 2.40 GHz) processor, 4GB memory, 500GB HDD with Windows 7 Home basic 64bit Operating System.

First upgrade: Memory

I upgraded my memory from 4GB to 8GB. It improved a little but on a regular use, I didn’t even notice the difference. I didn’t even bother checking memory usage benchmarks because for me it has to do with end user experience.

Conclusion: Memory prices right now are dirt cheap that doing an upgrade is timely
but from 4GB to 8GB there’s no much improvement noticed.

            

From 500GB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) to 120GB Solid State Drive (SSD)

When we got our initial stocks of SSD drives, I was wondering if all the benchmarks and marketing is true. Wasting no time, I upgraded my Seagate 500GB SATA internal drive to an OCZ 120GB SSD.

After the installation, configuration and migration of my data, I was testing it for a couple of hours. I am not used to having a 120GB hard drive anymore. The space I have with my old 500GB is so big that I didn’t even bother about available space. Now I am confused if I will push thru with the upgrade or plug-in my old hard drive and enjoy the storage space. Not so convinced with the results after several restarts during the installation process, I decided to plug-in my old 500GB HDD. Then the next thing that happened converted me into a believer. I cannot imagine myself suffering for so long of a time using a very slow computer when a simple hard drive upgrade from HDD to SSD would make my life a lot more productive.

That’s when I noticed how slow my old HDD was. Forget about the not so big storage, SSD is what I want and what I upgraded my notebook.

Here’s some proof using (CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1-HDD vs SSD)

Conclusion: SSD prices are now becoming more affordable.

For all those notebook users, upgrade your unit to SSD it’s the best upgrade I made. And For those who are planning to buy a new notebook or desktops, go for SSD now!!!

Note: I bought a harddisk enclosure and made my old HDD into an external USB drive.