Best SSD Card for Acer Aspire?

The harddrive of my Acer Aspire 5920G is full, and I'd like to buy a SSD card to get more storage space.

A couple of inches down from the touchpad there is this slot that says "pro/xd/sd" that's about 1 inch wide, and thin, and I guess it's where one would have a SSD card.

Would it be an ok solution to use such a card as an extra hard drive?

There's this other empty space on the side of the laptop, not sure what it is, you can see an image here:

What's this slot used for? It's almost 6 centimeters wide.

 

It's called an SD card not SSD - these are completely different. You could in theory buy an SD card and use it as storage but SD card readers are usually connected via internal USB meaning that you would be limited to roughly 20MB/s read/write (that is assuming you'd buy a fast SD card to begin with).

Long story short- it's slow an expensive as far as solutions go.

The slot marked on the picture looks like a PC card slot - not very useful these days.

I would suggest you simply buy a bigger HDD - for some $50 you can get either a 128GB SD card or a 1TB (1024GB) 2.5" HDD. That is 8 times the capacity for the same price and HDD will be much faster than a SD card (two or three times depending on a HDD chosen)

 

Thanks for the heads up about the nomenclature.

The one inch wide slot described in the original post can be seen here. I guess it's normally used as for importing images from the SD cards of cameras. The purpose of getting more disk space is to postpone the (inevitable) purchase of a new laptop, primarily to avoid the hassle of copying all the important files and folders over to a new laptop and making sure all the settings and stuff is all good on the new laptop (this 5590G is a shared computer, so if I bought a brand new, I'd have to make sure things are the same for the sake of the other users).




20 MB/s sounds slow, yes.

The hard drive that's almost completely filled up is a WDC-WD2500BEVS-22UST0, and its speed is apparently below fifty megabytes per second.

 

That's why I'd recommend a new HDD - not only would it be faster than an SD card but also faster than you current HDD (even with the same rpm drives get faster because of increased density measured in how much data can be fitted on sq inch).

You could clone your current one to a new one although I'd recommend a clean install.

 

Thank you. I thougt of another thing.

The laptop is on the same WiFi netword as a stationary computer. Adding another harddrive to a stationary computer is pretty easy. Could it be an option to buy a large hard drive for that computer and then share that hard drive over the WiFi network?

Or would that go really slow?

 

It would be slow unless you invested money in it. If you have 802.11g router or Wi-Fi card we are talking 2.5MB/s max, if you have a single stream 802.11n router or a card that would be no more than 5MB/s. Dual stream 802.11n (which has a theoretical connection speed of 300mbps) in reality offers 11-12MB/s.

To get semi-decent speed you'd have to upgrade to 802.11ac which means a router for about $100 and a Wi-Fi card for about $30 - and that is assuming you only need once card - for the laptop.

Replacing a HDD in a notebook is your best bet. I see you are not looking forward to this but it is by far the cheapest and the fastest (in terms of performance) way to add more storage.