HP envy 14 I580 hdd vs DV2550se 1.5ghz duo Kingston 64gb ssd who will win?

Yea so one of my new envy's came today and its the one without the ssd. I noticed something right away. Its way slower than my 2007 dv2550se. My dv2550se has a 64gb kingston ssd in it. Check out the video. I even turn the envy 14 on before the dv2550se. The envy 14 is slower in almost everything I have done so far. No tweaks have been done to the kingston ssd.

YouTube - Envy 14 hdd vs 2007 dv2550se with kingston 64gb ssd

 

That's not a surprise at all...

You're comparing a BOOT test of a standard HD to an SSD. Try running some 3dmark, Pi, or other tests...not a "load speed" test.

 

there were people in here telling me that a cheap ssd will give marginal gains. Someone even said that an ssd alone would not make my laptop boot any faster. I just wanted to show them they are wrong. No doubt the envy will do other things better but like I was telling them even a cheap ssd is a good upgrade.

 

Those people have never used an SSD then. I have one in my Envy 14 and in my desktop. It's the biggest upgrade you can make to a modern computer.

 

In terms of boot times and file transfers and loading times (NOT Rendering Times!) SSD in an early generation two-core laptop will 95% trump a modern laptop with a spinning drive.

Even the crappiest SSD's are FASTER than your 7200RPM HDD. The reason people don't like the crappy SSD's is that for the money you are paying for one, you should get one with a good controller that can boost the read/write speed on the SSD. However, even the crappiest SSD controller is faster than a spinning HDD.

That being said, it only applies to boot times, loading times and file transfer speeds. If you are doing rendering work, stuff that requires CPU or GPU load in addition to the HDD/SSD, you will see the gap shorten between your Envy and your dv2500t as the Generation 1 C2D's or the nVidia 8400M GS are no way superior to the Core i5 and the 5650. The SSD will still help with the loading aspects of the rendering work, but the bulk part of actually rendering, your Envy will kick the dv2500t to the sea.

SSD's are a great upgrade to a computer if you are multitasker that often copies, loading and running multiple files per session. However, if you are more of a renderer kind of guy or uses things beyond storage, the SSD itself might not be beneficial as the primary part to upgrade.