Should I upgrade to a SSD from a 7200 rpm HDD

Okay so I am running an ASUS G1S I bought like 3 years ago. Been a great notebook. Still running some newer games on about medium settings. My question is this. I have a 200gb 7200rpm HD in there now.

My question is this:

Is it worth it now to upgrade to a
Corsair Extreme Series CMFSSD-64D1 2.5" 64GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD)

My thought process is this.

I take my current hard drive and just put it in an enclosure since I don't have space for 2 hard drives in my laptop. Mind you I have been needing to get an external hard drive for a while now to save stuff on so this somewhat solves my problem on that end.

And although the cost of putting a very expensive SSD in my computer is high. I figure it would be a nice performance boost and I do intend on purchasing a new gaming laptop in about a year. Perhaps when ASUS releases the new NVIDIA 300m series graphics. So I was thinking just take the stock hard drive they will give me on the notebook I buy and put this bad boy in it, this saving myself from the initial upgrade I would otherwise make. (I love asus and purchase them through Gentechpc.com because they sell upgrades with them)

So would it be worth it now to purchase this SSD and replace it as my main hardrive for my laptop now OR should I just save my money and put this towards a new notebook?

 

Save money for a new notebook. SSD's are too expensive right now so you're better off waiting until the technology gets cheaper anyway.

 

A laptop bought 3 years ago should come with Intel 945 chipset or so, which uses SATA I 1.5Gbps. If you install an SSD into such system the speed will be bottlenecked to 187.5MB/s or less.

I would say SSD is the best single investment to boost overall performance given that it is in the right system. HDD is way too slow because of the high latency and the extra-low performance of concurrency.

Buy SSD now if you really need it (and make sure it supports TRIM), otherwise it would be wise to wait until next year (when 32nm i7 Arrandale are widely sold) and then you'll surely be able to buy an SSD at a lower price for better performance.

 

Well a 7200rpm drive is more than enough... an SSD might load stuff more quickly but their way more expensive..Somemore in your old laptop, their have limited bandwidth.. if you really want to upgrade get a a new 7200rpm drive.. its gonna be much more faster than your old one... and just make sure its not a Seagate one.. They seem to be failing like flies..

 

Completely agree with the second part of that comment.

I'll even go so far as to say that the SATA 1.5Gbp/s limit isn't too important. It's rare that you're going to max out the sequential throughput of the drive or interface; it's much more important that you have good random read and write speeds, the former being the real strong point of an SSD these days. Random write speeds are getting better, though, and they're both immensely better than what you're getting with conventional drives.