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‎02-14-2021 12:03 PM

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Product: Mini 210-1000
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (32-bit)

Hello all,

So I'm upgrading my old Mini with the Atom N450 to Windows 10 Pro x86 and wanted to know what your experiences were. I've got five other functioning laptops (four Dells and an Asus) plus a Dell all-in-one I plan on upgrading too. This is mostly an experiment. I'm even considering adding a BX500 SSD, probably the 480GB since it's going out of stock soon. Anybody else try this? I already upgraded the RAM to PC2-6400 and Windows 7 was killing me. I hear that the SSD probably won't increase my  user experience much but I'd still like to hear some opinions. Thanks!

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‎02-14-2021 01:05 PM

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@TheMortallyWoun 

Like all other SATA devices, an SSD in these older PCs will have the performance limited by the generation of SATA support being provided.

 

You will see SOME performance improvement, but if your SATA support is limited to SATA I, that's not going to be nearly the gain you would see in a SATA III supported PC.


That said, I did upgrade a really old Fujitsu laptop years ago with a SATA drive, and it was SATA I -- and the SSD made is usable again.  Not really fast, but a lot better than the crawling pace it had before.



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