HDD upgrade
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on โ30-06-2020 05:09 PM
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Slow booting really irritates me , so i am quite happy with the results although is obsolete Windows XP pro service pack 3 .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
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on โ30-06-2020 05:54 PM
@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Slow booting really irritates me , so i am quite happy with the results although is obsolete Windows XP pro service pack 3 .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
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on โ01-07-2020 08:29 PM
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 ?
ie
OpenOffice 1.4.17 ( 180MB )
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on โ13-08-2020 01:21 PM
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 !

