Solid State Drive for LC 1600?

**drumsonly2002** · 07-08-2009, 10:42 PM

Was told a solid state drive would speed up my computer. Anyone install such? What unit would work? Thank you.

**HadMatter** · 07-09-2009, 10:18 PM

It depends somewhat really. A quality SSD can increase speeds for sure, but it depends a bit on what type of drive you have currently, speed increases may be more apparent when upgrading from a 5400 rather than a 7200 rpm drive.

Any SSD designed for laptop drive replacement should work unless your device is one of the oddballs that uses a nonstandard drive.

Newegg can be a great resource, and Kingston offers a SSD replacement kit at a fair price that can help you get your drive copied over and give new use to your old HDD as a portable memory source.

Some of the reviews hint that the kit isn't the speediest of the SSDs, but for the price you should see an increase in speed, and as a bonus, some increase to battery life and blessed silence from the lack of moving parts.

**tc2007** · 07-10-2009, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by drumsonly2002

Was told a solid state drive would speed up my computer. Anyone install such? What unit would work? Thank you.

You mean LE1600. It takes a 1.8" 50pin IDE drive (alteast on the one i saw)
There are some on Ebay. Samsung and PhotoFast. The speed increase are really nice. Although your battery life may take a hit.

I have used the samsung ssd on an old Sony notebook with similar specs, what i said above is on that experience.