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In the video below, I am showing an actual customer laptop that was running very slowly. I log in to a different account so no personal data is shown. This is not a fast laptop, it doesn't support Windows 11. It does show the relative difference a SSD can make
The laptop is a Dell Latitude 3550, it has an i3-5005u CPU, 4GB DDR3 memory, 500GB Toshiba hard drive. The video shows 3 different configurations. 1: Original configuration from the factory. 2: Upgraded memory to 8GB, original hard drive. 3: Upgraded memory to 8GB, a new 480GB Samsung SATA SSD installed. To perform this test: Fast startup was disabled Windows updates were installed for August 2024, and then paused so it should not check for them for 7 days. The laptop was set to not go to sleep and the display was set to not turn off. The laptop was plugged into power throughout the test. I cloned the hard drive over to the SSD but left the original hard drive in place. I then rebooted the laptop once more and shut it down. The next power on was the video on the left. On each laptop, I had set Chrome and LibreOffice to start up automatically. Once they loaded, I opened Task Manager to the Performance tab, and waited until the hard drive was below 25% usage (indicating everything is fully loaded and it's responding about as fast as it can), I then shut down the laptop. After recording the first video, I replaced the 4GB with 8GB of memory, and then recorded the video in the middle. I then replaced the hard drive with the one I had cloned earlier, let it boot and detect the SSD, shut it down, and then recorded the video on the right. The final times that each video took: 3:53 - 4GB + 500GB Toshiba Hard Drive 3:13 - 8GB + 500GB Toshiba Hard Drive 1:35 - 8GB + 480GB Samsung SATA SSD |