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Slow booting really irritates me , so i am quite happy with the results although is obsolete Windows XP pro service pack 3 .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Slow booting really irritates me , so i am quite happy with the results although is obsolete Windows XP pro service pack 3 .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