i currently have a laptop for on-the-go stuff. it's currently bottlenecking in the hdd (the whole laptop can slow to a crawl). should i upgrade the HDD or just get a new laptop completely?
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how long has the bottleneck been occurring? Is it constant or intermittent?
I would try switching the power plan from balanced to high performance.
And a SSD is probably the most efficient upgrade for a laptop
the idea that my hdd was bottlenecking came from someone who i asked for advice regarding an issue with my disc usage maxing out at really small values
ive tried tons of solutions to this i found online but nothing seems to work
SSD is a great option, i shelled out for a big one though you could probably get away with a hybrid drive or with my old macbook i had this "fusion drive" which was basically a single partition combined from an SSD and HDD utilizing the speed of the former and space of the latter.
Here's my old laptop before buying a Surface. I installed a fake CD caddy with the old internal 1TB drive and placed a 120GB boot drive internally. Many CD drives run off the same SATA interface but it might be worth double checking whether your laptop supports it.
An SSD is a huge benefit for a lot of machines. See if you can replace your DVD drive with the current hard drive you have, then use the SSD as your primary.
