New Samsung SSD 850 Pro.....

[Gary A]

Once again I have proof that I am no techie. I was trying to get a little more speed from my old Acer Aspire laptop. After I took the 22 screws out and got the back off, I took out the old mechanical hard drive and put in the new SSD. I put the 22 screws back in. I still have my old Windows 7 Pro operating system. I fired up the laptop and started the install. Everything looked good but then I got a message that the SSD had no drivers. Out came the 22 screws again after I read that the drive had to be initialized. Windows 10 has a disk management option. Try as I might, I could not get the SSD to work. I was using my Windows 10 desktop to initialize the SSD. Following the instructions to the letter, (I thought), I could not see the initialize option. I got to the point that it appeared that I had made progress. Then I get the message that the drive was not formatted. The format option is greyed out and would not work. At that point, I decided to take everything to the local computer shop. I was still reading information from my Internet searching. One poster said that the Windows 10 disk management is too finicky to work with. He recommended that I use the free EaseUS partition program. I got back to work. Sure enough I was able to partition and format the SSD. I had learned a little. I didn't put all the screws back in before I tested the set up. Windows 7 got past the point where I got the format message and Windows 7 installed properly. It's a good thing I now have fiber Internet because there was about 2 GB of updates. It appears that everything is working properly. The laptop is a little faster but I really don't think that it was worth all the effort.

Edited July 4, 2017 by Gary A
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[Jai Dee]

That is a very expensive upgrade for an old laptop... I checked the prices on Lazada.

How many GB did you get Gary?

 

I assume that you used an eSATA interface? So you should see speeds of up to 6 Gbit/s (750 MB/s)? 

 

I too was thinking of upgrading my PC with an SSD but my motherboard's architecture is too old and the theoretical speed of an SSD would not be achievable.

 

[dave_boo]

Interesting that you went with the pro rather than the much more inexpensive EVO. You might be limited by the SATA3 connection on your laptop also.

 

When you start multi-tasking is when the SSD makes its benefit known.

[FracturedRabbit]

The speed you are achieving is probably restricted by the interface of your old laptop. In a newer machine, SSD drives make a noticeable difference.

[shady86]

How much Ram do you have? Even with ssd, everything still need to be loaded to ram.

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[Gary A]

10 hours ago, Jai Dee said:

That is a very expensive upgrade for an old laptop... I checked the prices on Lazada.

How many GB did you get Gary?

 

I assume that you used an eSATA interface? So you should see speeds of up to 6 Gbit/s (750 MB/s)? 

 

I too was thinking of upgrading my PC with an SSD but my motherboard's architecture is too old and the theoretical speed of an SSD would not be achievable.

 

 

I bought the 128 GB drive. That's plenty of storage for my laptop. I have 4 GB of RAM. I bought it from Lazada for 3,650 baht.