Disk load making my PC hot n' slow - will an SSD help on SATA I?

Disk load making my PC hot n' slow - will an SSD help on SATA I?

My laptop has had some overheating and sluggishness issues. This is because of the HDD. HWmonitor reads the drive as 50° or more, and that seems quite hot. When I try doing very simple things, like luanching an app, HDD usage hits a hundred percent usage a sticks for a while. I know that an SSD will always stay cool, but will it be lagging in performance due to SATA I? The theoretical max of SATA is 187, but the real is about 144 (using a 0.77 multiplier, common for SATA), so will the limiting factor be the interface? I can also get a HDD with 200 MB/s transfer, so that won't operate at max nonstop. Thanks.

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"Sadly your system only has a SATA I (1.5 Gb/s) drive interface. So you are limited on the throughput of the interface not the drive its self.

As for your problem a drive thats running hot could be the drive but it could also be the SATA cable as well. over time drive do wear-out and the custom SATA ribbon cables laptops use also tend to breakdown. So you may want to replace both here.

As to which drive to go with you could go with either a SSHD or SSD.

A SSHD is a hybrid traditional drive like a Seagate laptop SSHD. But you do need to be careful here as you'll need one of these older Seagate drives the newer version called FireCuda doesn't offer SATA I support.

For a SSD you could go with a Samsung 750 EVO.

Note both of these drives list SATA I (1.5 Gb/s) as well as the other SATA I/O speeds. These drives are called auto sense drives. Many of the drives today are fixed speed only listing a single SATA I/O speed often just SATA III (6.0 Gb/s). These fixed speed drives only work in systems which have the same SATA I/O speed.

But before you make the investment of a new drive consider the limitations of the system if you want to use newer versions of your apps. and the fact Microsoft no longer offers updates for its older OS's so you do run the risk of virus/malware/trojan infections."