topic HDD upgrade in Computers & Electronics

HDD upgrade

rogevibe — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 07:09:04 GMT

I thought the old dinosaur needed an HDD upgrade - not used now , just a nostelgic sort of thing during this national health crisis

Currently the drive is a 2.5inch IDE PATA drive, rotational speed of 4,200 rpm - i suppose ok in 2004 but what might be the options now ?

I checked around the listings and seemed a cost effective solution was a 60GB M.2 2242 NGFF Solid Sate Drive -

but it does look somewhat different to the oem drive

So of course will need an adapter

and yes , would you believe ? Ebay listings almost never fail to deliver.

M.2 NGFF SATA PCIe SSD B key to IDE 44pin converter adapter with case

Well it all fitted together and BIOS setup supported that

Slow booting really irritates me , so i am quite happy with the results although is obsolete Windows XP pro service pack 3 .

I might end up using it for a offline home budget spreadsheet

mov video pending of full booting from power up

Re: HDD upgrade

rogevibe — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 07:54:24 GMT

@rogevibe wrote:
I thought the old dinosaur needed an HDD upgrade - not used now , just a nostelgic sort of thing during this national health crisis

Currently the drive is a 2.5inch IDE PATA drive, rotational speed of 4,200 rpm - i suppose ok in 2004 but what might be the options now ?
I checked around the listings and seemed a cost effective solution was a 60GB M.2 2242 NGFF Solid Sate Drive -
but it does look somewhat different to the oem drive

So of course will need an adapter
and yes , would you believe ? Ebay listings almost never fail to deliver.

M.2 NGFF SATA PCIe SSD B key to IDE 44pin converter adapter with case

Well it all fitted together and BIOS setup supported that

Slow booting really irritates me , so i am quite happy with the results although is obsolete Windows XP pro service pack 3 .

I might end up using it for a offline home budget spreadsheet

mov video pending of full booting from power up

there we go

https://youtu.be/wpeiRLlXCU0

Re: HDD upgrade

rogevibe — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 10:29:38 GMT

Setup file install evaluation

Tedious booting times can strain user patience when operating vintage aged computers but can be addressed to some extent , but what about other common useful tasks within reasonable resource requirements ?

How about running large setup installation app files ?

OpenOffice 1.4.17 ( 180MB )

https://youtu.be/gXo7nLr5o5Q

Re: HDD upgrade

rogevibe — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 03:21:12 GMT

Of course booting with no usual start up apps is not representative of real usage

I installed Glary Utilities (freeware version) which has a boot time component - using this app standardises timing booting time

Then I installed anti-virus , non-windows firewall , anti-spayware , maintenance app

booting incl launching startups as benchmarked = 22 or 23 seconds

For this laptop restoration for my personal use the replacement of the painfully slow 16 year old oem hard disk drive with a current spec M2 ssd has been cost effective and realised a sensational reduction in time-to-complete tasks , relative to previous

I have included with confidence the same spec storage for my personal desktop replacement project which has onboard support - and which is definately not 16 years old !