Time to give up or can this be saved ?

Hey Guys,
Back after a really long time, haven't be on at all lately so completely out of touch with Forum as well as new tech .

Now coming to the dreaded question my 510p is seeming like it's coming to its age

Ram utilization is constantly above 75%, in the initial 10 mins of booting up it is absolutely non usable since hdd is running at 100% capacity utilization.
Now my question is is there any way I can improve this machine, planning to upgrade but it'll take some time and I'm planning to get back to PC gaming.
Other components are working just fine but it is the performance which has made me worried lately.
Hoping you al can help this old lad.

Happy to be back!!

Replace the boot drive with MX500 250GB if you plan to keep the laptop yourself for extra 3-5 years or with cheaper of Kingston A400, Crucial BX500 240GB if you would be giving/selling it to someone else.

SaiyanGoku said:
Replace the boot drive with MX500 250GB if you plan to keep the laptop yourself for extra 3-5 years or with cheaper of Kingston A400, Crucial BX500 240GB if you would be giving/selling it to someone else.

Can I set this up with my existing HDD or I've to install it in place of my HDD?
I'm planning to keep this laptop for sometime, this is still running fine for me as of now.
It's just these performance hiccups which sometimes makes me wonder what should I do to keep this thing a float.

I think you'll have to check if m.2 slot is present in it and then you can just get a sata m.2 ssd without removing the HDD.

SaiyanGoku said:
I think you'll have to check if m.2 slot is present in it and then you can just get a sata m.2 ssd without removing the HDD.

It does have a m.2 slot, suggest me some good alternatives in both 500 and 250 gb categories. 7k approx budget.

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*www.onlyssd.com/buy/crucial-mx500-m-2-2280-250gb-sata-iii-3d-nand-ssd-ct250mx500ssd4-2/

*www.onlyssd.com/buy/crucial-mx500-m-2-2280-500gb-sata-iii-3d-nand-ssd-ct500mx500ssd4/

Also buy soon because stock of pc components is getting finished quickly & limited supply is unable to keep up.

whitestar_999 said:
*www.onlyssd.com/buy/crucial-mx500-m-2-2280-250gb-sata-iii-3d-nand-ssd-ct250mx500ssd4-2/

*www.onlyssd.com/buy/crucial-mx500-m-2-2280-500gb-sata-iii-3d-nand-ssd-ct500mx500ssd4/

Also buy soon because stock of pc components is getting finished quickly & limited supply is unable to keep up.

Should I wait for Prime day or buy it right away??
Amazon prices seems to be in sync with other places rn.

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$hadow said:
Should I wait for Prime day or buy it right away??
Amazon prices seems to be in sync with other places rn.

Wait for Prime Day sale then, chances of this getting out of stock or price increase is small by that time but still your choice.

whitestar_999 said:
Wait for Prime Day sale then, chances of this getting out of stock or price increase is small by that time but still your choice.

So should I clone only windows partition or entire c drive to the SSD?
And software to be used for the same?

$hadow said:
So should I clone only windows partition or entire c drive to the SSD?
And software to be used for the same?

Do this:

SaiyanGoku said:
Shut down your PC, disconnect the HDD, boot it up, check if SSD is getting detected in BIOS and only then proceed to install windows 10 on it. This way, you won't have any issues with partitioning scheme. Once windows 10 is up and running, connect the hdd, copy/backup important data and format the HDD to get rid of existing partitions.

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$hadow said:
So should I clone only windows partition or entire c drive to the SSD?
And software to be used for the same?

C drive=windows partition.

It is better to fresh install OS on ssd unless you have too many softwares/settings you want to preserve on hdd. In case you really want to then you can use this software giveaway(check post#9)

*malwaretips.com/threads/aomei-backupper-professional-5-7-free-license.100186/

Another option:

*malwaretips.com/threads/aomei-partition-assistant-pro-8-5-free-license.100370/

*www.diskpart.com/help/migrate-system-wizard.html

thanks @SaiyanGoku and @whitestar_999 . I'll ask post purchasing the ssd

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I had recently faced a similar issue, and what I did was try to remove every non-essential program from C drive, and copied the multimedia files over to an external drive. Cloned the C drive over to the new SSD and replaced the hard drive on the laptop with the new SSD. Did not want to fresh install Windows as I had a few corporate applications on it and did not want to risk them not working again. Has given my laptop a new lease of life for a few years atleast. BTW, I own a Lenovo Z50-70 which did not have a secondary drive bay and my attempt at replacing the DVD drive with a harddrive caddy was a failure :cry:

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virajdhuru said:
BTW, I own a Lenovo Z50-70 which did not have a secondary drive bay and my attempt at replacing the DVD drive with a harddrive caddy was a failure .

In what way it failed.

whitestar_999 said:
*www.onlyssd.com/buy/crucial-mx500-m-2-2280-250gb-sata-iii-3d-nand-ssd-ct250mx500ssd4-2/

*www.onlyssd.com/buy/crucial-mx500-m-2-2280-500gb-sata-iii-3d-nand-ssd-ct500mx500ssd4/

Also buy soon because stock of pc components is getting finished quickly & limited supply is unable to keep up.

On a side note how's WD blue series? I think they'll differ for like 300 or so, plus I think WD provides Better RMA.

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$hadow said:
On a side note how's WD blue series? I think they'll differ for like 300 or so, plus I think WD provides Better RMA.

Only WD Black series is worth buying along with latest WD Blue SN550 NVMe series. Crucial RMA is handled by kaizen(same one who handles corsair rma) so after sales support should not be an issue.

$hadow said:
On a side note how's WD blue series? I think they'll differ for like 300 or so, plus I think WD provides Better RMA.

Your laptop doesn't supports nvme drives AFAIK. Stick with MX500, its on par with Samsung 860 Evo, except for TBW rating.

SaiyanGoku said:
Your laptop doesn't supports nvme drives AFAIK. Stick with MX500, its on par with Samsung 860 Evo, except for TBW rating.

Sounds good, gonna wait for a few more days before getting hands on one

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$hadow said:
Sounds good, gonna wait for a few more days before getting hands on one

Keep an eye on amazon prime day sale(need prime acc & hdfc card).

V

whitestar_999 said:
In what way it failed.

It would not let me select to boot from SSD even after cloning the C drive and keeping the formatted harddrive in the caddy as the SSD wasn't even showing up in the BIOS. The other way worked, but then it would still boot from the harddrive but would still crash after the Lenovo logo. I wasted about half a day trying to get it to work but then gave up after trying every possible combination, even tried flicking the switch on the caddy but was not able to boot from SSD. Finally kept only the SSD in the laptop, and connected the harddrive to my desktop.

whitestar_999 said:
Keep an eye on amazon prime day sale(need prime acc & hdfc card).

Prime i already have and hdfc card is already there courtesy of being employee over there. Amazon has already increased price by 600 since the day we have started our discussion.

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$hadow said:
Prime i already have and hdfc card is already there courtesy of being employee over there. Amazon has already increased price by 600 since the day we have started our discussion.

Which card, maybe you can get some extra discount by using smartbuy via payzapp. btw check your PM.

whitestar_999 said:
Which card, maybe you can get some extra discount by using smartbuy via payzapp. btw check your PM.

I got Regalia

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$hadow said:
I got Regalia

You get 4 points per 150 spent(so ~0.67%) + 5% smartbuy discount on amazon shopping via smartbuy + 10% hdfc card offer on amazon. Since you work there it should be easier for you else for typical people it is advised to take screenshots of all transactions/offer notifications as cashback tracking system of hdfc is not good compared to amazon icici or flipkart axis.

whitestar_999 said:
You get 4 points per 150 spent(so ~0.67%) + 5% smartbuy discount on amazon shopping via smartbuy + 10% hdfc card offer on amazon. Since you work there it should be easier for you else for typical people it is advised to take screenshots of all transactions/offer notifications as cashback tracking system of hdfc is not good compared to amazon icici or flipkart axis.

Available for around 5.2k I think it's about time get one.
Slight correction purchased for 5k

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$hadow said:
Available for around 5.2k I think it's about time get one.
Slight correction purchased for 5k

You combined hdfc amazon prime day offer with smartbuy?

whitestar_999 said:
You combined hdfc amazon prime day offer with smartbuy?

Yeah, earlier it was showing 5.2k post that it came to 4980.
So felt like a good deal to click buy immediately

Sent from my Redmi Note 8 Pro using Tapatalk

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$hadow said:
Yeah, earlier it was showing 5.2k post that it came to 4980.
So felt like a good deal to click buy immediately

Sent from my Redmi Note 8 Pro using Tapatalk

That is sell price right because hdfc offer is 10% off upto 1750 max cashback on credit cards.

So now I'm hoping that I can pass an year or so with this laptop.

Alright so the ssd arrived.
Spoiler alert turns out my laptop can't fit it in and amazon won't return it so now I need suggestions on how to use it with this laptop.
@whitestar_999 @SaiyanGoku

$hadow said:
Spoiler alert turns out my laptop can't fit it in and amazon won't return it so now I need suggestions on how to use it with this laptop.

How is it incompatible? Connector or length issues?

SaiyanGoku said:
How is it incompatible? Connector or length issues?

Length issue mate, it is supposed to occupy a smaller size m.2, so basically it is not fitting in

$hadow said:
Length issue mate, it is supposed to occupy a smaller size m.2, so basically it is not fitting in

Ah, I guess then you'd have to find a m.2 extender cable and just stick your ssd inside the chassis somehow using thin double sided tape.

SaiyanGoku said:
Ah, I guess then you'd have to find a m.2 extender cable and just stick your ssd inside the chassis somehow using thin double sided tape.

Any suggestions for the same??

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SaiyanGoku said:
Ah, I guess then you'd have to find a m.2 extender cable and just stick your ssd inside the chassis somehow using thin double sided tape.

I don't think those are easily available here.

whitestar_999 said:
I don't think those are easily available here.

And amazon says its not returnable. So basically I'm stuck

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$hadow said:
And amazon says its not returnable. So basically I'm stuck

Not much issue as I think you should be able to resell it with little loss to maybe even little profit.