Notebook (Acer Aspire 5532) Performance Increase

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I upgraded the CPU to a TL-56 1.8Ghz Dual Core Processor and 4GB Dual Channel Ram, but still get some lag at times. From what I can tell it's lags when the hard drive is flashing and solid for times. So I was thinking it might need a hard drive upgrade from the existing HITACHI Travelstar. I'm willing to invest up to $100 if this helps with the performance. Did anyone upgrade from one of these drives and see a performance gain?

 

[flensr]

All of my laptops have received noticeable benefits from upgrading to better hard drives than the oem ones that came with them. My favorites are the western digital scorpio black drives for sata, and scorpio blue for ide. You can get a decent drive for well under $100.

 

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i have an acer 5534 with an upgraded cpu, turion TL-60 x2 2.0ghz, 4GB ram, i upgraded the drive to a 128G SSD and it's very smooth.

 

[Lanyap]

You have enough RAM so it shouldn't be paging. Could be your Hitachi is starting to fail. You can run the Hitachi DFT disk diagnostic program if you want to see if that's the problem. If you want to just upgrade and skip the diags then I agree with flensr, get a WD black 7200RPM with 16MB cache. The 500GB drive is currently $70 shipped at NE. You should see an improvement in performance but just be aware that if there is another problem with the laptop that's causing performance issues then this HD upgrade will probably not fix that problem. You could also go with a SSD drive but you get less capacity at a higher cost. It may not be worth it for your system.

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Replaced drive with a Crucial Real 300 SSD 64GB...I notice a huge difference. Nothing like my Z68 setup, but I am very pleased. ; )