SSD upgrade for Dell laptop

[beni_rohit]

Hey guys
i have a 3 year old Dell Inspiron N5110
it has gone very slow of late
so im thinking of upgrading to an SSD

first question:
does my laptop have a sata 6 GB/s port?

i have the Kingston v300 240GB SSD on my mind
its the cheapest SSD currently on the market
i know it doesnt have great write speeds
but im more concerned about read speeds

i have a Crucial MX100 on my desktop and its running great
even though that SSD is also criticized for its poor write speeds

can anybody please suggest if i should go with this upgrade
and if there is any other SSD around this price that will do a better job

 

[glamdringfh]

Just checked the Dell forums and it looks like the Inspiron N5110 only supports SATA 2.

As far as SSD suggestions I personally favor the Samsung 850 EVO. Although the EVO runs about $10 more than the Kingston I think the extra money for the 2 years longer warranty justifies the price.

 

[techgeek]

Don't worry about the SATA III, the bandwidth helps, but the real benefit to a SSD is the low access times. The access times are typically 2 orders of magnitude better than an HDD. My wife's older Core 2 system is nearly as fast as my Haswell system when it comes to booting and starting applications. Most workloads are lots of small files rather than a few large files and that's really where the SSD's shine.

I have no experience with Crucial or Kingston when it comes to SSD's, but I have plenty of experience with Samsung SSD's. They are very good. They finally sorted out the issues with the 840 EVO drives. The 850 EVO drives are awesome as well.