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Elie Abou Issa

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Hello I decided to buy a ssd for my old computer but I don't know what ssd to choose. Yesterday I was looking at a shop near our house and found a kingston ssdnow v300 60gb. After doing some research I found that is new firmware was slowing down its performance. Will I notice it or only with benchmarks?
 
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with SATA 2 it will feel much faster and your Pentium D although slow by today's standards is not to slow to be choked by the SATA bus. What os are you using? And how much ram do u have? 60gb is enough for win 7 x64 updates and 8gb ram and a handful of small programs but not much else. Most people recommend 120gb min. Regarding your original question the ssd will be much faster than your SATA bus so the SSD speed is not a big deal.
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Can you provide more information regarding the computer? how old, what is the model? do you know what motherboard is in it? what OS are you using or planning on using? 60GB is the smallest you can go but it does not leave much room for anything else. How much space are you currently using on your HDD? If your computer is old is it SATA or PATA? a am going to assume it is SATA if it is SATA 1 150MB you will see improvement but don't expect it to be earth shattering because you are limited to 150MBps. but you will see a difference in tasks requiring many random reads. additionally if you have SATA 1 150MBps or SATA 2 300MBps the speed of the SSD will not matter that much because your SATA interface will be limiting you not the SSD.
 
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Elie Abou Issa

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My computer is custom built. Here's the specs:

Intel Pentium D 945 3.4 GHz

AsRock N73PV-S (SATA II)

Nvidia Geforce 9400 GT

Seagate Barracuda 500 GB

LG DVD Drive

I know my system is old but I don't have enough money to build a new system( I'm only 14) my father promised me if I pass my official exams he will give me enough money to build a gaming pc.
 
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with SATA 2 it will feel much faster and your Pentium D although slow by today's standards is not to slow to be choked by the SATA bus. What os are you using? And how much ram do u have? 60gb is enough for win 7 x64 updates and 8gb ram and a handful of small programs but not much else. Most people recommend 120gb min. Regarding your original question the ssd will be much faster than your SATA bus so the SSD speed is not a big deal.
 
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With windows 8 yes. Win 8 shutdown is a modified hibernate and it saves the kernel on the HDD to improve boot times. If you want to load a clean kernel you have to do a restart. You can disable the resume from hibernation if you want using the powercfg -off command at the command prompt.
 
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