Ideally, superfetch and prefetch should be turned off in the
registry after the operating system is moved to a ssd, I don't
believe Macrium Reflect will do that for you., if it does that
would save some steps.
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On 2/4/2019 03:02, Steve Nutt wrote:
Hi,
No need to monkey with the registry,
just use Macrium Reflect which is free, and image the
drive. I put an SSD into my old laptop the other day, and
the speed is amazing.
All the best
Steve
Actually, if the person doing the swapping knows what they
are about, the windows, programs and all the data can be
easily copied. All one need do is to change a couple of
registry settings so windows treats the ssd properly once the
new drive is installed. You make good points on the ease of
dismantling the machine. If I was him, I wouldn't even bother
with best buy, find a local place that works on stuff and has
a good reputation, you're more likely to get someone who will
do the job right and put in the necessary time.
On 2/3/2019 17:15, Sieghard Weitzel
wrote:
That is a fairly generic 1Tb 2.5 inch
laptop hard drive with 32Mb of Cache and 5,400 RPM
(revolutions per minute).
I can see that after a little over 3
years this is not going to be the fastest, as I said
before and now that it is confirmed you have a regular
hard drive, you would get the most speed boost out of
replacing this with a solid state drive. You would have to
see how much space of this you use, but you would most
likely want a 512Gb SSD, it is half the size of your
current drive, but as far as what you get for your buck
this is pretty much where the sweet spot is now. If you go
to 240Gb you may run into space issues and you only save
maybe $30 or $40, but if you want a 1Tb SSD (same size as
what you have now) you’ll pay double of what a 512Gb
costs, prices are constantly coming down and in a couple
of years you’ll probably be able to buy a 1Tb for the same
price as a 512Gb now, but that won’t do you any good. Of
course you can just put up with longer boot times and
loading times of applications and keep it the way it is.
You would have to check anyways if this laptop you have
can even be easily opened up, some of these convertible
tablets/laptop thingies are sealed and changing components
is not easily possible. Then of course there is the
consideration whether it is worth putting $100 or $150
into it, I assume you can’t switch the drives out yourself
and I have no idea what a place like Best Buy would charge
for that. Keep in mind that you want to make sure you have
a good backup of all your data and that whatever
applications you have are available for a fresh install
either by download or that you have the installers on a
USB stick. If you change drives you start out with a fresh
install of Windows which if you are comfortable with it
you can do yourself with Narrator, then you have to
install Jaws or NVDA (whatever you use) and after that
install things like Chrome and/or Firefox, Office, iTunes
or whatever applications you use. Depending on how much
user data you have on your current hard drive you could
copy it to an external hard drive first. You can get a 1Tb
external drive in the States probably for $50 or $60 so
not such a big expense and it is something you then have
and can continue to use.
As for David’s comments on RAM, whether
you buy a laptop or other computer, they do come with
whatever RAM is supported by your CPU. You could not put
DDR 4 RAM into your laptop which I am quite sure has and
can only take DDR 3 RAM. If you have a custom system built
you want to of course make sure you get the best RAM
possible for your processor and motherboard at the time,
beyond that RAM speed is not really a big issue and how
much cache a hard drive has is also a lot less important
than whether you have a hard drive or SSD.
Regards,
Sieghard
From: main@jfw.groups.io
<main@jfw.groups.io>
On Behalf Of Michael Munn
Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2019 1:00 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Processor speed
Here is the information about the
drive of this laptop:
HGST HTS541010A7E630
I got this from the
disc and Drive section of the device
manager.
Michael Munn
Member: Virginia
Association of Blind students
Member: Maryland
Association of Blind Students
Students of: Hadley
Institute of the Blind
along the lines of talking
about the processer speed, it also should be noted
about the size of the hard drive cache, also you
can't forget that the faster the processer speed
the ram speed might have something to do with the
speed as well. as an example the faster
processers of today need the faster ram like ddr4
ram if i'm not mistaken.
-----Original Message-----
From: Feliciano G
Sent: Feb 2, 2019 5:15 PM
To: "main@jfw.groups.io"
Subject: Re: Processor speed
Hi Michael,
the start up speed is due
to the type of hard drive that you have. There
are hard drives with lower revolutions per
minute and higher revolutions per minute and
then there are solid state drives which are
quicker. There are settings that can be
adjusted to change how your windows machine
loads.
On Feb 2, 2019, at 2:53 PM, Chris Hill
<hillco@...>
wrote:
Well, don't give up. If the slow
machine doesn't have one (most likely)
you should consider having a solid state
drive (ssd) installed. Your boot speed
will go up a lot. You can often get
away with a much smaller drive if you
aren't using all of what you have. I
went from a 1tb drive on my old laptop
to a 512gb ssd. At that time, 1tb was
more than i wanted to spend. It helped
a lot. I eventually took that drive and
put it in my wife's machine and gave up
on my 8-year-old laptop, it was way
slower than what you have.
Good luck.
CH
On 2/2/2019 16:49,
Michael Munn wrote:
Thanks all. Yes
the start up time really drive's me
crazy. I used two different
computers, one of them is faster
then the other. I just want to know
the information of the speed.
Thanks for
answering my question.
Michael Munn
Michael
Munn
Member:
Virginia
Association of
Blind students
Member:
Maryland
Association of
Blind Students
Students
of: Hadley
Institute of
the Blind
If applications are running
more slowly than you would like,
it would be best to find out why
before investing in any new
hardware.
If I recall correctly,
Performance Monitor will show
you how much your CPU, memory
and storage are being used over
time. Some of the same
information is in Task Manager
as well.
On 2/2/19
2:06 PM, Michael Munn wrote:
Thanks so
much for the detail. i
really appreciate it.
I got
this laptop in DECEMBER of
2015. It's the current
generation at that point.
I just
want to know about the
information of the laptop
that I'm currently using.
Michael
Munn
Member:
Virginia
Association of
Blind students
Member:
Maryland
Association of
Blind Students
Students
of: Hadley
Institute of
the Blind
On Sat,
Feb 2, 2019 at 1:13 PM
Sieghard Weitzel <sieghard@...>
wrote:
And
if you are gaming over
the internet and you
are on a 6 Mbps ADSL
connection a
super-fast computer
with the latest
processor and 32Gb of
RAM won’t do you much
good. Computers are a
system and they are
made up of various
components and they
all play a roll. To
again use my car
example from the
previous email, the
high-end Mercedes or
BMW which can go 160
or 180 miles an hour
won’t do you much good
if you are taking the
Road to Hanna on Maui.
For those who don’t
know of it, it’s a
2-lane highway which
over a distance of
just over 64 miles has
approximately 620
curves many of them
hairpin turns and you
can rarely go faster
than 30 miles an hour.
In this case that
highway would be
equivalent to your
internet connection
speed. I can take my
7-year old laptop on
my 275 Mbps fiber
connection and
download things a lot
faster than somebody
with the latest 9th
generation I7 system
on a much slower
connection.
all
depends on what you
are doing. If you're
into gaming on line
real-time over the
internet, then you
need one heck of a
lot more speed and
memory. So it really
depends. You're
better off than if
you still had an
Apple II+ with 64k
RAM and a 6052
processor.
What
I'm saying is that
this is a very
open-ended question,
and your answers
will vary. For now,
you have plenty, and
actually more memory
than I have, but
then I'm a senior
citizen.
Dave
Oregonite,
woodworker,
Engineer, Musician,
and Pioneer
-----
Original Message
-----
Sent:
Saturday, February
02, 2019 09:56
Hi
all, this is
Michael.
Today
I checked the
processor of my
HP laptop and
here is the
information I
get for the
processor:
Processor:
Intel(R)
Core(TM)
i5-5200U CPU @
2.20GHz 2.20
GHz
Installed
memory (RAM):
8.00 GB
System
type: 64-bit
Operating
System,
x64-based
processor
Is
2.2 GHZ enough?
and how fast can
it run?
All
comment and
answers are
greatly
appreciate it.
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