Hi all. Need some input. I have a fujitsu laptop running on i5 with 8gb of ram. The laptop is super laggy and im not sure if its the HDD prob. Was thinking of swapping it for SSD. Kindly advise what would be the best option and how much would it cost?

1stly mayb u could some of windows feature like disk clean up and defragmenter
after that check ur hardisk health status with crystaldiskinfo
if not in gud shape need to replace new one

or mayb u can try tune up utilities...
ssd in recommended for super fast windows boot in time
never turn back after u use it..it's marvellous

Tries disk cleanup and all. Still about the same.

From what you say, changing to SSD is a good option nonetheless?

have ur check ur drive health status?
adying hardisk also has the same symptom...

yup ssd is a good investment..
but pricewise per capacity is quite high

This post has been edited by huzzLEE_82: Nov 6 2015, 05:09 PM

How much are you willing to spend? These days, you can get a new retail 120GB/128GB SSD for around RM230, 250GB/256GB for around RM400. In day to day use there's hardly any difference between models and brands, so usually just get any you like. If your laptop has an mSATA or M.2 slot you can use that for SSD, and still keep the HDD for mass storage.

Hi. I don't need a high capacity one so 128gb is enough. I am also not sure what type is it? But is it a lot of work to clone the OS from one to the other?

Cloning is easy really, I usually use Macrium Reflect to clone HDDs to SSDs for my clients. That program is easy to use and it's free.

http://www.lelong.com.my/sandisk-ssd-sata3...7-01-Sale-I.htm
^Sandisk X300 128GB, RM215. Decent performance, and one of the cheapest available.

Is changing it ourselves a tough job or not? Errmm, I have a z400 and plan to change to SSD soon as well.

It depends on the specific laptop, some laptops have easy access to the HDD bay so a few screws and it's off. Some other laptops need to be dissembled almost completely to get to the HDD bay.

changing to ssd and your computer run 5x faster, trust me

intel i3 dual core with ssd > intel i7 8-core with hdd
anytime anyday

Thanks. Not sure if i am able to do it on my own. Normally how do you clone from hdd to ssd? Using the software via usb? Dont really understand the idea.

It is really fast using ssd even at sata 2

Just checked using crystaldiskinfo. It says health of hdd is good. Just weird that its so damn slow.
Will ssd improve the performance SIGNIFICANTLY?

Connect the new SSD to the computer using a USB cable or enclosure, run the program until finished. Open your laptop and change the HDD to SSD and the you're done.
Below is a video that shows how to use the program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0PyZIqecII


Maybe there's something else that's accessing your HDD all the time? Anyway based on my personal experience with a pretty run of the mill SSD on a Haswell based Celeron laptop, even when hammered with antivirus scans, windows update and IDM downloads the laptop is still responsive. Did this on the same laptop using the stock 5400rpm HDD it came with and it basically just gave up lol, nothing moves.

I wonder too. I check my performance under task manager and it shows hdd 100%. Drops to 92% and back to 100%.

ssd will speed up program loading time significantly , am i right ?

Just changed to 120gb ssd. Significant improvement. Now my w7 boots up within 15 secs. Btw, im looking for an enclosure for my old hdd, any cheap recommendations? Or any enclosure would do?

can we buy something to cover the internal hdd ?

I don't recommend cloning from HDD to SSD. The blocks arrangement of SSD is totally different from HDD. It will still work but it will take some performance penalty.

Yes, SSD can read files faster at the average speed more than 300mb/s while most of the HDD can only read files at the average speed around 100mb/s

Yes, enclosure is not expensive. Last time I bought ClipTec 2.5” USB 2.0 SATA Harddisk SSD HDD Enclosure for the price less than RM30. Quite reliable.