HP G6 2310se HDD to SSD upgrade

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Junaid Jabbar Khan

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Hello,
I am running HDD 500GB 5400rpm at the moment and this is slow for me. I want to upgrade it to Samsung (MLC) 128gb sata III 6.0gbps 7mm (Ultraslim). with a HDD caddy in which i can place my HDD for data storage and SSD will be used only for booting windows. I can't find on the internet whether my notebook support SATA III or not? and will it boost up my notebook speed or not?
any help plz.

Other specifications are 8GB DDR3 RAM, Intel 3210M core i5 processor and other things like bluetooth wifi etc etc
 
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Boogieman_WD
Hey there, Junaid Jabbar Khan.

Your laptop has SATA II, but the SATA interface is backwards compatible, so you should be able to use a SATA III SSD without any issues. Although, note that the SSD's transfer speed will be bottlenecked by the SATA II interface, because it can reach max 300MB/s - e.g. if you get an SSD wich reaches speeds of up to 500MB/s, you would be able to use it, but it will run at 300MB/s instead of 500MB/s. One the other hand, you'll still get to benefit from its 90% faster access time compared to an HDD, so you'll definitely speed up your system a lot compared to what you get now in terms of performance.
The caddy is actually a pretty good idea, so that you can have the SSD + HDD combo.

Hope that helps. Let me...
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Hey there, Junaid Jabbar Khan.

Your laptop has SATA II, but the SATA interface is backwards compatible, so you should be able to use a SATA III SSD without any issues. Although, note that the SSD's transfer speed will be bottlenecked by the SATA II interface, because it can reach max 300MB/s - e.g. if you get an SSD wich reaches speeds of up to 500MB/s, you would be able to use it, but it will run at 300MB/s instead of 500MB/s. One the other hand, you'll still get to benefit from its 90% faster access time compared to an HDD, so you'll definitely speed up your system a lot compared to what you get now in terms of performance.
The caddy is actually a pretty good idea, so that you can have the SSD + HDD combo.

Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Boogieman_WD
 
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