Recommended guide for old notebook hardware How to upgrade your notebook hardware

Although the hardware scalability of the notebook is not as rich as the desktop, it can still improve its performance with some basic hardware upgrades.

Upgrades will be promoted in all areas: solid-state drives

The benefits: solid-state hard disk to bring the speed of the notebook is all aspects, it can shorten the response speed of various operations, such as the boot speed, game load speed, PSD file open speed, decompression of large file speed.

Principle: This is mainly because solid-state hard disk using Flash storage file, it's random reading and writing and continuous reading speed are very high, compared to mechanical hard disk has multiplied.

Applicable models: In addition to the Apple Mac series notebook, almost all notebooks can upgrade their solid-state drives, we believe that all mechanical hard disk notebook should be upgraded to a solid-state drive, because it brings the ascension is too obvious.

Note:

Solid state hard disk currently has several specifications and interfaces, we need to select suitable for their own machine products, the following we explain in detail.

M.2: This is the latest solid-state hard drive interface, typically appearing in notebooks that have been launched in the last two years.

On: 2280 Next: 2242

M.2 drives typically have three appearance specifications, 2280, 2260, and 2242, and three specifications represent three-mm, 80-mm and 60-mm. The current mainstream notebook is 2280 specifications, and can be compatible with 2242 specifications, but to specific models, still need everyone to check their own notebook disassembly diagram or product description.

In addition to the appearance specifications, there are two different versions of the m.2 hard drive. One is the PCIe channel and the other is the SATA3 channel. The PCIe channel is backward compatible with the SATA3 hard drive, but the SATA3 channel is incompatible with PCIe hard drive.

Left: PCIe Channel right: SATA Channel

The speed of the two channels is very different, PCIe channel m.2 hard drive reading speed can reach 2gb/s, write speed can reach 1gb/s, and SATA3 channel m.2 hard drive generally only 400mb/s and 200mb/s.

Specific choice of what kind of m.2 hard disk mainly look at the compatibility of notebooks, if the support PCIe hard drive, the priority to choose PCIe Hard drive, but if you just contact the SSD, SATA3 channel will also be able to meet you.

SATA: Common hard drive interface, with 2.5-inch mechanical hard drive common, nearly five years of notebooks are equipped with this interface.

If your notebook is not particularly lightweight, you will typically have this interface. Its reading, writing speed is generally in 400mb/s, 200mb/s around, although not as fast as the PCIe hard disk, but still can bring a lot of performance to improve the notebook.