HDD upgrade

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

 

D600spec.jpg

 

Slow booting really irritates me , so i am quite happy with the results although is obsolete Windows XP pro service pack 3 .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

 

D600spec.jpg

 

Slow booting really irritates me , so i am quite happy with the results although is obsolete Windows XP pro service pack 3 .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

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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 ) 

 

https://youtu.be/gXo7nLr5o5Q

 

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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

 

BootingTimeFullWindow_half.jpg

 

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 !

 

 

 

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