[mdlug] MSI Wind SSD Upgrade Question

[Garry Stahl]

On 11/11/2014 10:51 AM, Brandon wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have two MSI Wind U100 Netbooks that I'm considering upgrading with SSD
> drives and I wanted to know if I would see a significant performance
> improvement or if I shouldn't waste the money. The specs are below and both
> units have been upgraded to 2GB of RAM.
>
> Processor 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 Memory 1GB DDR2 SDRAM Hard drive 80GB,
> 5400rpm Chipset Mobile Intel 945 Express Graphics Intel GMA950 Operating
> System Windows XP Home Edition SP3 Dimensions (width by depth) 10.2 x 7.3
> inches Thickness 1.0 to 1.6 inches Screen size (diagonal) 10 inches System
> weight / Weight with AC adapter 2.5 / 3.3 pounds Category Netbook
> Crucial's M100 series of SSDs seem to be in vogue for price and performance
> and I'm considering a 256 GB drive for my home machine and a 64GB drive for
> a parent's (web browsing only). I plan to install Ubuntu LTS on both
> machines as Linux Mint doesn't seem to perform very well right now.
>
> Does anyone have experience with this type of upgrade? Am I right in
> thinking the hard drive is the bottleneck in performance or am I throwing
> good money after bad and should I just replace the machines entirely?
>
> Any feedback is appreciated!

You will see a performance increase.  The Beast was built with an SSD 
root drive and it boots in five seconds.  Programs load almost faster 
than I can click on then,

Mind you that increase will be only in disk access time.  The processor 
will run no faster or better and your ram doesn't change.

My home drive is a conventional disk so large files load as you might 
expect.

That said it is an atom processor and they are not known as quick. Low 
power consumption yes.  You are never going toi get a netbook to laptop 
performance levels.

The Beast is a quad core 3,4 gig intel processor, 16 gig of ram 160 gig 
root drive SSD 2T home drive.  About as far from a netbook as you can get.


Buuut, SSD drives are fast.

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