Subj : Re: i5-2430
To   : MATTHEW MUNSON
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Mar 28 2020 11:32:00

-=> MATTHEW MUNSON wrote to All <=-

 MM> It seems I should give old technology a chance before it gets
 MM> refurbished to a stranger to have. Should a laptop from 2011 be able to
 MM> use a ssd drive that is 2.5 inch? It has 8gb of ram and it should be a
 MM> good basic laptop for general use.

Most probably, depends on the laptop. What brand/model is it?

Whether a 2011 laptop would make the most of a modern SSD drive depends on 
the laptop's SATA interface; some old Thinkpads used a SATA to PATA bridge, 
which limited the speed of the SATA interface throughput, but I think 
manufacturers were pretty much done by then and supporting SATA natively.

Another option if cost is an issue is a hybrid SATA drive. I bought a lot of 
them for laptops back then, and they made a big difference. It's a SATA 
drive with a big (2-4GB) solid state cache. The drives boot up the same, but 
as they start caching data, the laptop pulls from the cache instead of the 
spinning drive and subsequent accesses are as flash speeds.




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