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Well, as it says in the thread title, I finally bought an SSD for the laptop today.
I got the Samsung 540 EVO (500GB)...
As everyone who ever installs one says....  "Wow!".
Just everything about the PC (especially browsing funnily enough - assume getting things from HDD cache for webpages slowed things down more than I imagined) is so fast now.  Apps open almost instantly, boot time is superb and things like AV scans just fly through.  I can now copy to and from my NAS at 100MB/s+.  I just copied a local file from and to the same folder and it was writing at 400MB/s+.  Just ridiculous speeds.  Very, very happy with it!!
Performance score is 7.1.  Drive is 7.9.  The 7.1 is from the graphics card.

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The only thing dropping my score is HDD speed as well. I'm 7.4 to 7.9 on everthing else

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I swear in recent years Microsoft have deliberately ruined normal HDD performance, or at least made no effort to optimise their supposed smart system for prioritising read/writes.

Probably their entire dev team has been using SSDs for years and just no longer cared about all the people who can't afford one.

I want one for my laptop now, but 512s are still too pricey. :( But the 256 I put in my desktop, even though it's only used as my system and program files drive, made such a huge speed difference to everything.


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Pete-MK says...
"The only thing dropping my score is HDD speed as well. I'm 7.4 to 7.9 on everthing else"Mine was similar.  I don't think they're absolute values though because installing this thing dropped the others..Quote:
Rob Shepherd says...
"I want one for my laptop now, but 512s are still too pricey."I got this for less than £212 delivered.  It was over £250 at Amazon.  That was for the laptop kit which included the spacer but nicely, also included a USB3 - SATA cable for the quick transfer.  (was cheaper than they were selling the basic 540 EVO for..).  £20 cashback at Samsung for a week or so too.. (got from Scan with free del.)

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