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SSD upgrade in Lenovo

  • 19-10-2016 10:19PM
    #1
    txpjl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭


    Hello,

    Looking to upgrade the SSD drive in my Lenovo X240 laptop. Going to install Win 10 on the new drive. Looking at the Samsung EVO 850 500 GB drive.

    Anybody used this drive? Any other recommendations? Really don't need 500 GB but read somewhere that these drives (SSD) slow down after filling to 60% or so. Any truth to that?

    I'd like to switch the old drive to an external enclosure and boot from the USB port. Is this possible?

    Thanks in advance.

    T


Comments

  • #2
    ItHurtsWhenIP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭ItHurtsWhenIP


    txpjl wrote: »
    Hello,

    Looking to upgrade the SSD drive in my Lenovo X240 laptop. Going to install Win 10 on the new drive. Looking at the Samsung EVO 850 500 GB drive.

    Anybody used this drive? Any other recommendations? Really don't need 500 GB but read somewhere that these drives (SSD) slow down after filling to 60% or so. Any truth to that?

    I'd like to switch the old drive to an external enclosure and boot from the USB port. Is this possible?

    Thanks in advance.

    T

    I put an Evo 850 500GB in my OH's Lenovo Z500 recently. I cloned her existing HDD first and then swapped them. The thing starts almost instantly from pressing the power button.

    Don't know about the slowing down. I've an 840 Pro 256GB in a W530 laptop that's about 75% full. The thing flies along no bother.

    Having the old drive in an enclosure should be no bother. If you were going the cloning route you could use that to hold the SSD while you copied the HDD and then swapped.


  • #3
    txpjl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭txpjl


    Thanks for that ITHurts...

    I don't need to clone it. Going with a fresh install on the new drive. For a while hold the option of booting off the old drive just in case I miss anything (hopefully from a USB port). After 6 months I'll format it and use as a spare.

    Thanks
    T


  • #4
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,146 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Fresh install is best imo. Always a decent idea to give it a fresh start when changing drive imo.

    As for speed dropping, I would doubt it. And if it does I would doubt whether it would be noticeable. I ran an old 64GB SSD (5+ years ago...) at around 90% capacity for it's entire life and it was lightning fast at all times.


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