[SOLVED] Should I upgrade my RAM or upgrade to an SSD on my Acer Aspire A315-51?

[Pythonbites]

Hello. I use my laptop for general use. No gaming except for roblox. It performs pretty sluggish even on high performance power plan when plugged in. Should i buy an SSD or an extra 4 gigs of ram for my system? I see 100% disk usage alot in Task Manager and i commonly see 80% of ram usage, but i haven't ever hit the pagefile i don't think. Thanks for any help!

 

[ebosss03]

Definetly an SSD the ssd will also impact the RAM because a disk will transfer information to the RAM. Also an ssd makes your whole system faster. Your pc will almost never hit 100% Ram usage because windows will compress some data in order to save some RAM. When you have an SSD that compress and de-compressing will go much faster then later on you can get some extra RAM.

 

[maziech]

You didn't post the laptop model. Also, if it is old, it might requie thermal paste change. If it overheats, it performs bad.

 

[Pythonbites]

You didn't post the laptop model. Also, if it is old, it might requie thermal paste change. If it overheats, it performs bad.

I've been using this laptop for about 6 months and it hasn't lost any performance. It doesn't get hot either. It's an Acer Aspire A315-51-3879. Sorry if you needed the last numbers.

 

[Pythonbites]

Could you possibly recommend any SSD models? I use my laptop pretty frequently and i usually only do small reads / writes. I don't do any heavy work like video editing (Obviously). I want it last a long time and want it to be efficient on power since my laptop doesn't have the best battery life. I'm okay with sacrificing some write/read and random write speed since it would still be miles better than a mechanical hard drive. If you do, thank you!

 

[maziech]

Crucial MX500 is cheap and fast. Capacity depends on You.

 

[Pythonbites]

Crucial MX500 is cheap and fast. Capacity depends on You.

Okay, thank you.

 

[guanyu210379]

If you have only 4GB, you need actually both SSD and RAM (to get 8GB) upgrade.
I would not just stop after only the SSD.
Your laptop should be still quite good with SSD and 8GB RAM.