[SOLVED] Worth buying a ssd for my laptop

[ace700]

Here is the specs for my laptop:
CPU: i7-4510U
Ram: 12gb
Storeage: 1TB Hard Drive

Will my cpu bottleneck if I upgrade my hard drive to ssd?

 

[USAFRet]

1. Bottleneck does not mean what you think it means.
2. Yes, an SSD is a good upgrade for almost any system.

 

[ace700]

1. Bottleneck does not mean what you think it means.
2. Yes, an SSD is a good upgrade for almost any system.

What do you mean by bottleneck does not mean by what I think what bottleneck means?

 

[RodroX]

It should be night and day once you test the laptop with an SSD....


Be aware, is worst than drugs, once you taste the SSD speed, theres no turning back to mechanical drives ;-)

Cheers

PD: I just saw your last question no, your CPU wont bottleneck your SSD. Thats what USAFret meant.

 

[USAFRet]

What do you mean by bottleneck does not mean by what I think what bottleneck means?

What is your concept of "bottleneck"?

 

[ace700]

What is your concept of "bottleneck"?

I mean will my cpu be slow down by adding ssd to the laptop

 

[USAFRet]

I mean will my cpu be slow down by adding ssd to the laptop

Exactly.
A "bottleneck" does not 'slow down' a different component.
At worst, it does not let the other component reach its full potential.


For instance, a high end GPU may be said to be 'bottlenecked' by a low end CPU.
It does not slow the GPU down, just that it may not reach its full potential.

And that has nothing to do with CPU+ drive.

Yes, change that HDD for a 2.5" SATA III SSD of whatever size fits your budget. 250GB minimum.
Your system will be faster, not slower.

 

[mdd1963]

I've upgraded a few I5 and I7 laptops of that generation, and, the difference of going from a spinning drive (particularly the 5400 rpm laptop drives) to an SSD was the typical level of change...or, in a word, staggering. To a 10-15 second boot instead of 65 seconds, etc...4 second shutdowns instead of 20 seconds, etc... Apps opening almost instantly instead of 4 seconds.

Every laptop deserves an SSD!

 

[Deleted member 1560910]

If the question is should you buy a ssd over a hdd the answer is always yes

 

[ace700]

Thanks for the information

 

[SamirD]

The only case where the cpu won't benefit fully from a fast ssd is when it cannot transfer at the highest speed the ssd can transfer. But these are not common configurations.