Upgrading "old" SSD to new SSD

[nnorton44]

In my laptop I have the Corsair Force 3 Series 180GB SSD, it is server years old and I would like some more space as well.

I was thinking about upgrading to the Crucial MX100 256GB, I can sell my force for $75 so it would only cost $30 to pay for the $105 MX100.

Besides the benefits of a little more space, would I see any performance increase as well seeing as the Force NAND is so outdated?

My laptop:
Sandy Bridge i3 2310M 2.1GHz
8GB DDR3 1333
SATA-II Connectors

Thanks!

 

[chesteracorgi]

In most cases your increased speed will not be significant. The bottleneck is the SATA interface, with SATA III allowing 6 GBps doubling the SATA II 3GBps standard. With SATA II connectors it is doubtful that you will experience any improvement.

 

[tsnor]

Benchmark tools will show a huge different, but.... I agree with chesteraccorgi that real world you will not see much when you upgrade to a faster SSD. I have one laptop with an old intel 320 120gb drive and another with a hugely faster samsung 830 pro. The intel ssd laptop is much faster because it has a better CPU, the difference in SSD speeds does not show up.

Aside: The major value of SSD is RANDOM 4K retrieval rates. No consumer SSD approach sata II limits for 4K random IOS, especially not at the typical windows queue depth of less than 2 (you need an average queue depth of 8 to use all of the channels in a consumer SSD). So Sata at 3gb/sec and sata at 6gbit/sec feel the same. Very little windows work is the large block sequential workload that drives 500 MB/sec numbers 6 gbit speeds.

Update: can you really find someone to buy a used SF 180gb ssd for $75? Wow.

 

[nnorton44]

Update: can you really find someone to buy a used SF 180gb ssd for $75? Wow

Friend wants to upgrade an old laptop the $75 would include installation and fresh install of Windows. I think ill just get a slightly bigger drive despite no really noticeable performance increase the extra gigs on my laptop are worth the ~$25.

 

[tsnor]

cool. Makes sense. And the combination of fresh install of windows + SSD is a fair price, well worth $75.