Hard drive help

[tjhunt]

laptop HD clicking away so looking into replacing it and seems an ssd is the way to go. What memory is best for gruss as that is all I use the laptop for? Also not sure if just buying a new laptop would be easier...any help appreciated.

[Captain Sensible]

I replaced the drives on my laptop and desktop ages ago with a cheap Sandisk and a Crucial one. Both were 256MB which was plenty for me as you can always convert the old drive to a usb one with a cheap caddy off ebay so you still have the storage available. I bought one for around a £5 off ebay and it works fine and contains stuff like my mp3's etc.

If you only use it for Gruss maybe you'll even get away with a 128GB one, just check how much space you'd used on the disk already as it's probably very little if it's only Gruss on there.

I found even the cheap ones boosted my speed or at least loading times which is where most slow downs occur, brought both back to ife as I do have large databases running on mine. Loads of choice out there but make sure you don't overpay for something that your laptop can't handle anyway a lot of the newer ssd's are capable of a faster transfer rate than you're existing sata connection maybe able to handle. Like I say even a cheaone made a noticable difference to my PC and laptop, certainly worth trying as a cheap way to speed up your OS rather than getting a new PC.

[rourkem]

I think 256MB is too low for memory nowadays. If your budget permits, maybe you could go as high as 6GB, that way, you can multitask pretty easily.