That's pretty darn good and says a lot for the Toshiba's design and quality. So if you can get the necessary hardware to work, I would not advise it unless you install Linux or upgrade to at least Windows 7 - or you use it as a stand alone system only.įinally, the thing is 9 years old. And the problem is not that it is just unsafe for you, but if you plan on connecting that notebook to the Internet, it becomes unsafe for the rest of us as it is more vulnerable to compromise and then used to distribute malware or spam, or participate in DDoS attacks without you even knowing it. Does that notebook support SATA drives? If not, you would need an EIDE to SATA adapter and not sure you could find one that will physically fit inside your notebook.Īs for DVD tray, again, getting it to physically fit is the issue because notebooks are so proprietary - unlike PCs which must conform to ATX Form Factor standards. Yes, the speed gains would be significant - but really only if you replaced the existing boot drive (your hard drive) with an SSD and put the operating system on the SSD - if you could.
Thanks in advance for any advice or recommendations. And that brings me to my other questions, this laptop has a dvd/cd tray and I read you can swap that out and install ssd in that spot, but is that fairly easy to do? And are the speed benefits the same from there? Lastly if it can be done is it possible to then install linux on the new ssd without touching the old hard drive with XP at all?
The idea was for maybe $100 to give me a better backup laptop to mainly use for web browsing and for experimenting with linux. So I was thinking of adding a small(64 or 128g) ssd drive to it but wondered if that would give a huge speed benefit or is the laptop simply too old? If I did add ssd I would also try to add ram if that is fairly easy & inexpensive to do. So a couple of weeks ago for the first time in nearly a year I turned it on curious if it would still run and much to my surprise performance is not that bad considering the age & specs. A switch in company VPN somewhat forced me to a newer 2012 Windows laptop so the old Toshiba has basically been gathering dust. Even when new it was far from state of the art with celeron and 512k ram but it has been super reliable for me and until a year ago I used it at least once a week to work from home and never had a problem. I have an old 2006 Toshiba laptop with XP on it. I have been reading about SSD drives and the huge speed benefits they bring and had some questions.
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