Will SSD Make your computer faster? Yes.

I just installer a 512 gb Transcend SSD on my 5 year old laptop with second generation i5 processor and 8Gb DDR3 Ram (I have upgraded the ram recently), but there was always something missing. The CPU was so fast that it never clocked to 100% and RAM was never full and it seems that something is stopping the computer from reaching its full potential, looking at the task manager the something always seems like to be the hard disk usages, which always seems to be at 100% even if a simple processor is triggered.

So I decided that I will upgraded to an SSD hard disk. I had a 500GB HDD in the computer and I don't wanted to downgrade the capacity and SSD prices in the market was too high for that capacity I waited for one whole year and then I saw Transcend TS512GSSD370 512GB SSD, for Rs 12500 ($ 180), and at that moment I know that I wanted this.

If you are use to handle the traditional hard drive the SSD will take you by surprise because it is surprisingly lighter, and due to its compact structure looks smaller, but it will fit perfectly in 2.5 inch hard disk slot perfectly.

Installation of a SSD.

Bellow Process is a very good video example how to install "any" hard drive in a computer, but it may vary according to the laptop model (specially in compact computers)

Now for migrating the data, there are 2 ways around it, either backup all your files in third drive then install the new SSD, then install the OS, and then install all drivers and program you needed and copy over all files. This this is going to give you pain, pretty much, because even with the fast speed of SSD doing all thing manually is painful.

Migrating data on SSD

Below is the small tutorial how I migrated data to SSD. 

1. Download  Clonezilla is a linux base bootable cloning software which can be booted from an live USB drive or bootable CD. 
2. Get a hard disk casing, instead of replacing hard drive first install the SSD in the casing.
3. Make a "Clonezilla" bootable USB or CD, and set the computer to boot from USB or optical driver from Bios (or increase these driver boot priority)
4. Attach the hard drive casing (with drive inside)
5. Attach the bootable USB (or CD)
6. Reboot, The Clonezilla should boot from the USB driver, if not check again in the Windows, you must have done something wrong in bios setting or while creating the live USB.
7. Clonezilla will run, you have to choose local drive to local driver option for cloning.
8. Choose a beginner option, and then choose a option to copy master boot record files.
9. Make sure that you choose the correct hard drive as a source, (by brand name, or you can get the name from device manager) choosing the wrong source while cloning will prove disasters as your original hard drive will get clone from empty one loosing your all data.
10. It will take some time according to hard drive capacity, because even your ssd can read/write at 600MB/S, your regular hard drive will only work at 30-40 MB/S.
11. Clonezilla will clone all data even with partition and almost 4 to 6 hours later your drive will be ready to install.

Remove SSD from casing, install it to computer, and install your old hard dive in the casing you got. All SSD's are plug and play, (until your computer is like 10 year old).

Computer today are more or less saturated on their performance and work being done to increase the battery life (On performance cost, compare the clock speed of 2nd generation and 4th generation i5 processors) because as software is improving and optamising it self we don't need such fast computers.  

If you are happy with your current Laptop battery life, A SSD can a best thing happen to your laptop, and can give significant boost to it, and can save you lot of money on upgrading.