A couple years ago I bought a Dell Inspiron laptop (I3) processor with the intention of using it as a spare. The PC suffered from lousy boot times-as much as 35 minutes. I couldn't fix that in task manager. I tried replacing the standard 1tb HD with a WD Green 1tb hard drive. Boot time is <1 minute (ca 30 seconds). The computer has fast snappy response.
Installation took 2.5-3 hrs. I used Acronis to clone the HD. It spent a very long time preparing the source disk. Maybe 30 minutes writing to the WD SSD target. It took 15 minutes to swap the drives. 10 of that 15 minutes was looking for a screw that fell out, hit the table and bounced into some unknown dimension.
Initial boot up with the SSD was without problem and took less than a minute. The laptop has performed flawlessly and blazingly fast compared to the original drive.
I read the reviews on Blue VS Green ssd drives. If I were going to use this laptop for high i/o, intensive use, I probably wouldn't have bought the Green. But then this laptop wouldn't be Dell with an I3 processor. The estimated life expectancy of the green is up to 1.0 million hours. that's just under 115 years. The blue would last just under 200 years. I may be sorry in 2135. This is the 3rd laptop I've replaced the original drive with an SSD. I've had one failure. It was up and running within a couple of hours of getting the replacement drive.
The bottom line is this SSD made this laptop usable.
| RAM | 6 GB |
|---|---|
| Hard Drive | 1 TB Solid State Hard Drive |
| Average Battery Life (in hours) | 5 years |
