Breathing New LIfe Into My Aging Laptop (SSD) - and Beyond

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I'm going to be breathing some new life into my laptop, which is about three years old now. This is currently my everything PC; it needs to last me a bit longer. I'm putting a plan together to finally build a new desktop PC. I'm sure I'll be posting to questions to the appropriate parts of the forums before long regarding that. However, it will be a while yet before I can put that particular plan into action.


Current Plan:
I'm planning to replace its main (mechanical) drive with a Samsung 850 EVO 1TB. I'm also planning to add a WD Black 5TB + Inateck Aluminum USB 3.0 Hard Disk Drive Enclosure as a backup system. I'm also going to update its cooling ability with an
Opolar LC06 Laptop Fan with Temperature Display and Cooling Pads; a Cooler Master NotePal X-Slim Ultra-Slim Laptop Cooling Pad.

I'm posting here to ask your opinions and advice on my given choices for this quick, but enjoyable, endeavor.
 
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Well, it is only 1TB. That's really not a lot of space. I wanted to get a larger one, but can't even begin to afford, or justify, that right now. I did also want to take advantage of the 1TB @ $250. I also am needing more space for future projects, to house some material for a time, before it's ultimately sent to backup archival. That's why I opted for a WD Black 5TB backup (also on sale currently @ Newegg) to get started with that in a good way, I think.

I guess when it comes down to it, I could cut that amount in half and just keep less on my main drive. However, I know myself well enough to know that I would just buy another ssd to add onto it in the future.
 
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haha you know how many people i know who say 1Tb is not really a lot of space? Like maybe 3 or 4. Thats it XD

If you need it go for it! Will def get a very good speed bump. I have an older Dell Studio XPS 1640. Core 2 Do P8600 (2.4 @ 1066FSB) 8GB RAM, ATI HD 4670 1GB and i tossed in a 120GB SSD, got a caddy for my 750GB and put in the DVD bay (It was busted anyways) and got me a PCMIA Express USB 3.0 ports. Gave a whole new life to the laptop. I don't use it as much anymore but it is still good. I gamed on that thing over my desktop up until about 2-3 years ago when i bought a GTX480 off a friend.
 
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Well, now, maybe four or five. ;)

Upgrading the USB ports is something I overlooked. I guess I could pop-in a PCIe card adapter to gain a couple 3.0 ports to fix that easily enough. I think that's about all that's left that I can do to the aging girl, sadly.
I'm ordering a monitor shortly, as soon as I finally decide on what I want. I'm really tempted to wait a bit, because I'm having an extremely hard time finding what I want within my price range right now.
So, she'll look prettier, have more storage and will be able to xfer via USB much faster; gain some much-needed archival space as well.
I think that'll see her through to "the end" nicely, depending on how long she sticks around.
 
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Operating System: Windows 8.1 64-bit (6.3, Build 9600)
System Model: HP ENVY 17 Notebook PC
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Total Space: 686.9 GB
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
 
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That's what I'm hoping. It's finally shipping today, so not too much longer to wait. Thanks for your help by the way. :)
 
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