Originally Posted by
Saab Dastard
Unless your laptop has a SATA 3 HDD interface, I would suggest that you save your money and buy a 7200RPM conventional HDD - the performance gain with an SSD on SATA 2* isn't worth the extra cost.
Few people care about disk throughput, they care about disk latency, which is why an SSD boots Windows 10x faster than a hard drive, as the disk head seeks all over the disk as it struggles to load all the crapware the manufacturer installed.
Even our old Linux netbook booted 3x faster when I put an SSD in there. First thing I did when I bought my new laptop was pull out the hard drive and put in the SSD from the old one.