[mdlug] MSI Wind SSD Upgrade Question

[Brandon]

Garry - thanks for the feedback. I'm really hoping to see an increase in
boot times; large file operations will be few and far between and I usually
do streaming on a completely different device. I think I'm going to take
the plunge!

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Garry Stahl <tesral at wowway.com> wrote:

>
> 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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