Will upgrading to a SSD for a C-50 netbook worth it?

[alanbrenton]

For a netbook with AMD C-50 processor and 4GB RAM running Windows 7, will a SSD significantly help improve performance? I ask because I had created a few standard accounts and password-protected the Admin account as per advice on the antivirus thread. Also, the update to SP1 really took an hour but of course, I wasn't in front of the netbook.

I love it though for the low power consumption and for browsing and occasional MS Office Suite, it should be fine since it has the 1280x720 resolution.

With a SSD, will the new bottleneck be the slow processor or was the bottleneck always the processor to begin with?

I know most no longer use netbooks. On two 2nd gen i3 laptops, SSD"s make so much of a difference.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1689319

[flyz]

SSD always makes a difference. Where SSD improves upon mechanical drives are random read/writes. Your OS does many of those. This reduces boot times, makes the OS much more responsive and apps will open almost instantly.


I was looking at Crucial m4 512GB drives and my god they're 80c/gig now. It's no slouch either. Makes me want to upgrade from my 256GB one. :-0

Looking over invoices and I got the 256GB for $421 1 year ago. Double the storage for the same price. Moore's law ftw.

[audit13]

Go for an SSD. I put an older Kingston 64 GB SSD into a single-core Atom Acer netbook with 2 GB of ram and it reduced boot times, application load times, and Chrome was more responsive.

Even though I only have 2 GB of ram, I also disabled Virtual Memory.

[murdoc2k]

SSD always makes a difference. Where SSD improves upon mechanical drives are random read/writes. Your OS does many of those. This reduces boot times, makes the OS much more responsive and apps will open almost instantly.


I was looking at Crucial m4 512GB drives and my god they're 80c/gig now. It's no slouch either. Makes me want to upgrade from my 256GB one. :-0

Looking over invoices and I got the 256GB for $421 1 year ago. Double the storage for the same price. Moore's law ftw.

This guy is rich!

I would've never paid that much for 256gb of memory. When 512 goes down to $0.5/gb, I'll consider.

[johnnyepy]

I have a ssd on my c-50 netbook, its a big improvement , the stock netbook sucks so badly til I upgraded.

[Beradon]

For a netbook with AMD C-50 processor and 4GB RAM running Windows 7, will a SSD significantly help improve performance? I ask because I had created a few standard accounts and password-protected the Admin account as per advice on the antivirus thread. Also, the update to SP1 really took an hour but of course, I wasn't in front of the netbook.

I love it though for the low power consumption and for browsing and occasional MS Office Suite, it should be fine since it has the 1280x720 resolution.

With a SSD, will the new bottleneck be the slow processor or was the bottleneck always the processor to begin with?

I know most no longer use netbooks. On two 2nd gen i3 laptops, SSD"s make so much of a difference.

Do it as others have suggested. I'm running on an Acer C-50 netbook and an SSD made a lot of difference. Not only did it speed things up but it also saves a bit on the battery consumption.
You may have to re-install win7 to get the best performance out of an ssd.