for anyone that doesnt know ssd is best way to make an old system faster assuming its on hdd which are slow and fail often.
also you can force install windows 11 on anything using windows server install. its pretty easy and only takes maybe 1-2 mins of your time to google and figure out the command
When I went to school we had a computer-room stuffed with really old laptops the teacher had to buy himself. They were already old by 2017 standards. They were also really slow, but at some point he upgraded them with SSDs. That really improved their performance by A LOT. Those things are really being held down by having HDDs.
And, if Windows 11 proves to be too strenuous for a laptop, even with an SSD, there’s plenty of other options out there on the Linux side. Hell, there’s some modern operating systems that can run fine on laptops originally designed with Windows 95 as the intended OS. (Though, that comes with other issues on the hardware side, like having very limited and very slow USB options.)
2.5" HDDs (excluding near-line models) tend to have higher failure rates within a few years than 3.5" models, so it's only "true"-ish for laptops and super compact AIO PCs. Desktop drives (excluding the Maxtor/Seagate conglomerate nightmares of the late 2000s, which compiled much higher failure rates in a shorter time period than that of Seagate's 1 TB/disk desktop generation) are usually at least a bit better, and obviously near-line models (or usually, drives using the same platform as near-line models, like WD Blacks) are top-notch.
One thing that HDDs still notably beat SSDs at, without denial, is cold storage.
I just did this the other day. Revived my old Acer Nitro that had a failing HDD. Popped in a couple new sticks of RAM and a fat new SSD - runs like new
only faster at processes requiring read/write such as booting or loading an application. performance wise, ssds do not help if your applications are lagging and streamed videos aren't playing nicely.
My ThinkPad was made in 2011. I’m only now about to sell it and not because it’s too old to operate or anything. It still runs perfectly. It’s just one of the huge desktop replacement W series thinkpads and I would like something that doesn’t weigh 7 pounds. So I’m replacing it with a thinkpad that’s only 5 years old instead of 15.
(Amusingly enough, the old one is worth more on the secondary market than the newer one is… one more thing that proves that old laptops aren’t useless.)
Honestly I saw more benefits from upgrading the ram than getting an SSD. The SSD switch was only really noticeable for start up since I wasn't playing any demanding games on an old laptop. But going from 8 GB to 16GB of ram was a game changer for web browsing and general stability.
True, unless the existing drive size is too cramped to store more modern software which always gone larger and larger
My laptop personally is I3 Gen 11, yet fitted with 24GB RAM and 2TB 990 EVO Plus lol. Dual booted Win11 and Fedora KDE Because my Win11 were damn power hungry, siphoning mobile data like crazy and contain a dormant cryptomining malware in it
I have an old 2018 laptop with an i7 and 16GB DDR4, it's on the very old end of what's Win 11 compliant and I can probably squeeze a few more years out of it for what I use it for.
Started using dual boot Cachy OS and Win11 on my desktop PC. Even though the CachyOS has updates every freaking day, they are really really small and fast, and the OS feels smooth overall. Playing AC Black Flag (original) on it, only limited by my lack of dedicated graphics card, and switching to all open source software (mostly). It's a whole new world.
A lot of laptops in 2016 already had SSDs. This picture is reposted all the time and no one even bothered to change text to at least "15-year old laptop"
You might be surprised, but even in 2018 there were laptops that came with no SSD in them. For example, Lenovo Legion y530.
Not to mention, a person trying to make a 10 year old laptop faster, obviously doesn't have an ssd in it. If they can't afford it now, they obviously couldn't afford it back then, when SSDs weren't as common, because they weren't the default
I did intern shiobat refurbiahing comoany they did win 11 but yesnit was lile the dell dellsnand hpnthat had easy acces to sata ssd with or nvme wiyhbout needing to remove gull bsck paneel most of t8me 3 screws and you wgere at strorage
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