Yeah, that is a no-brainer! I've got some upgrades to do this month. Going to take a few days off around Thanksgiving I'm upgrading two computers with newish motherboards and AMD 6-core CPU's I'm expecting faster boot as well
what is the advantage of an ssd anyway? Been looking on google for a while but my small brain cannot comprehend ;-;
The only aspect you have to comprehend is SPEED Classic (spindle & platter) hard drive: There is moving parts - The limitation of speed is how fast the platters can spin. Solid State Drive: There are NO platters at all. its just like flash memory and RAM Classic (spindle & platter) hard drive: They are very sensitive to damage when dropped or knocked around because of the platters and writing heads. Solid State Drive: You can abuse them - no moving parts, great for laptops, tablets and phones Classic (spindle & platter) hard drive: Moving parts generate heat Solid State Drive: No moving parts, less heat Classic (spindle & platter) hard drive: Moving parts require more power to operate Solid State Drive: No moving parts, requires less power Solid State Drives are better in every way except price right now. As we purchase more of them, the prices will get lower
Great news! I got a used 120gb ssd drive. I have installed Linux Mint 17.2 XFCE 32bit. The machine now boots in about 57 seconds. It looks like I have shaved off about 40 seconds. Total amount to upgrade this old 11 year old machine is $75. All I may need now is a new cmos battery.
Your experience speaks to my HEART! This is what I do at home for fun and at work. Keep those old computers running and upgrading if possible. I love this! My LAN consists of 6 "frankensteined" computers that I keep upgrading. I still have 4 of them running Core2Duo's that I picked up for almost nothing. Still running DDR2 on a few of them as well. If I had the money, I would definitely upgrade to SSD drives and a GeForce 750 Ti, but that would costs hundreds of $$ I will be upgrading two of them next week to Gigabyte Motherboards, AMD 6-core CPU's and DDR3 1333 Nothing super fast, but much faster than what was in them. I even resurrected 5 laptops with Pentium's in them as a small portable gaming LAN. Mostly 2D games of course. Then at work, I keep old Dell servers running and old Dell Optiplex 520's running. I even found a replacement Power Supply for them because of the small form factor. I have soldered many capacitors on these old motherboards too. All in the name of saving money and keeping things consistent. Obviously not in the name of speed.
