I’m still
using a Lenovo T430 and I still love how modular it is when it comes to upgrade
each of the components in the laptop. Though the upgrading has its limitations
modular design is no seen in laptops that are available now. So, I stick with
T430. If you want to buy this model laptop you can buy Lenovo T430 14-inch Laptop here. This model is not in
production but you can buy from Amazon Renewed. Also, this laptop is at its
lowest price at the moment, below is the price trend.
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| Price Trend of T430(Renewed) |
Back to the story!!
I was using a 500GB HDD that came with the T430 and it worked pretty well but recently it slowed down and I didn’t want to change from T430 yet. I did some research and thanks to its modular design I was able to upgrade the memory to approx. 1TB and also gained speed.
Here is what I did . . .
My laptop Lenovo T430 has a DVD drive which I
have not used in ages. I wanted to replace it with my existing HDD and swap my
old HDD with a new SDD. So, again I researched for a good SDD finally found
that Zebronics - ZEB-SD52 SSD 512GB. Reasons to buy this are pretty straight forward The ZEB-SD52 SSD 512GB is a solid-state drive that uses QLC (Quad-Level Cell) technology, which allows for higher storage capacity at a lower cost. It also features both SATA II and SATA III interfaces, making it compatible with a wide range of devices.
I also bought Lapster Caddy for SSD and HDD, the size of DVD drive and the HDD are different so this caddy fits into DVD drive slot in the laptop and this accommodated my old HDD. Now the old HDD slot is used to accommodate new Zebronics - ZEB-SD52 SSD 512GB.
Before performing the above steps I've cloned OS on my old HDD to new SDD. This process is totally a separate process which I'll cover in future blog.
Boot speed of my laptop improved drastically, the difference is like night and day. I didn't expect performance of the laptop with the new SDD to change much but I was wrong, performance has improved many folds and I would say I'm more than happy that I made the switch from HDD to SDD.
I still use my old HDD but as a secondary to store files that I don't access very often.
After I made this change to my laptop, I helped one of my cousin to make a switch from HDD to SDD with ZEB-SD26 256 GB, used only 256GB as that laptop is already having more than 1TB HDD and the speed did improve very much.
These two swiches from HDD to SDD made me realize that the advantages of using an SSD is that it can significantly improve the speed and performance of your computer or other devices. SSDs are much faster than traditional hard drives and can help to reduce boot times and improve file transfer speeds.
