Storage upgrade for old Emachines e525

[DKeva]

Hello everybody,
I started upgrading my old laptop from 2009, first upgraded ram. Now I'm thinking about storage upgrade, I have a 160 gb hitachi hdd 5400rpm. It's performance is terrible. Disk usage goes to 100% even on easy tasks, like moving 100 mb file from local disk c to d and is very slow. I'm thinking about 250 gb 7200rpm drive, but also want to try out ssd's. As you know ssd's cost much more than hdd's and buying one without knowing if it would work is not an option for me. I have googled e525 ssd upgrade, but found nothing. Does anyone know if it's compatible? Should I get ssd or hdd?
Thanks in advance.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

I am afraid I have some bad news for you.

You weren't kidding when you posted that you had an old laptop. It does not support modern 3rd generation SATA 3 6Gb/s solid state drives. It does not support 2nd generation SATA 2 3Gb/s solid state drives. It only supports the original first generation SATA 1.5 Gb/s devices.

In theory modern 3rd generation ssd's are backward compatible with older SATA standards but performance will be restricted. In your case it will be severely restricted to the original SATA 1.5Gb/s standard. In all probability performance won't be much better than a high end hard disk drive.

There is an alternative solution. You can install a solid state hybrid drive (SSHD). An example would be the Seagate solid state hybrid drives. Here is a link to the Seagate web page with more information (in pdf format):

http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/momentus-fam/momentus-xt/en-us/docs/laptop-sshd-family-ds1814-2-1406us.pdf

 

[DKeva]

I am afraid I have some bad news for you.

You weren't kidding when you posted that you had an old laptop. It does not support modern 3rd generation SATA 3 6Gb/s solid state drives. It does not support 2nd generation SATA 2 3Gb/s solid state drives. It only supports the original first generation SATA 1.5 Gb/s devices.

In theory modern 3rd generation ssd's are backward compatible with older SATA standards but performance will be restricted. In your case it will be severely restricted to the original SATA 1.5Gb/s standard. In all probability performance won't be much better than a high end hard disk drive.

There is an alternative solution. You can install a solid state hybrid drive (SSHD). An example would be the Seagate solid state hybrid drives. Here is a link to the Seagate web page with more information (in pdf format):

http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/momentus-fam/momentus-xt/en-us/docs/laptop-sshd-family-ds1814-2-1406us.pdf

Yeah, It's very old. As you said it does not have support for 2nd and 3rd gen sata drives, so I think I'll go with 7200rpm hdd. Thanks for the answer.