ssd/hdd and battery

[Brado78]

Hey Gang, I have a 7200 rpm in my laptop, the batter lasts only about an hour and a half. I was wondering would adding an SSD as the boot drive. Will the ssd have a major impact on battery use?

Thanks Guys

 

[docp]

By 10-15 minutes at maximum it may increase.

 

[LTC8K6]

Hey Gang, I have a 7200 rpm in my laptop, the batter lasts only about an hour and a half. I was wondering would adding an SSD as the boot drive. Will the ssd have a major impact on battery use?

Thanks Guys

What is Windows Power Option set to? Is it switching to a power saving mode when it's running on the battery?

 

[JeffMD]

yea your hd isnt the big drain. It is the lcd panel and cpu. 1.5 hours is kinda weak, is it a much older laptop like core2 era? I mean you can still get laptops that bleed battery life with bleeding edge cpus, but ULV and modern 30watt notebook CPUs give you the 5-8 hour ontimes.

Maybe its time for a new laptop?

 

[nerp]

How old is the battery? A new authentic battery for the machine could help. Did the machine used to get good battery life? If not, popping in an SSD would speed it up nicely but it might not do much to improve battery life at all.

 

[Brado78]

Hey Guys, The laptop is a Lenovo T410, and this is battery number two, it is 2.5 years old...

 

[BonzaiDuck]

My best sense of it from getting my first laptop as a 7-year-old refurb which I also refurbed myself, is that those batteries only last so long; it's only possible to keep a "new" one handy for maybe a year -- two at most -- without having it deteriorate.

Our hope lies in some small businesses which specialize in batteries and the remanufacture of batteries for all these old models of laptops. Basically, they just get the recycled discards, pull them apart carefully and solder in a fresh set of cells. Mine has six, but I can get a replacement for 8 or even 12 cells. You be the judge whether you'd want to carry even 8 of them around.

Another thing I learned has to do with "original" versus "remanufactured" embedded controllers in the battery. The battery is supposed to return a signal and data of a product code to the computer; with the retreads, the computer sees it to be the wrong code; the computer throws an ACPI red-bang in the System Event Log about twice an hour. Since it doesn't mean anything, you would simply tweak the Event Viewer to filter it out of the list.

Well, I could tell you about my 1985 experiment with Grandma's Samsonite Overnite case, some foam blocks, a Sony Watchman, a Sinclair ZX81 with mechanical click keyboard to replace the membranes, a 2 hour battery (designed for just the computer) and a small 4"-wide thermal printer.

The Sinclair was the first time I ever fiddled with hardware. And I've been fiddling ever since. As for the Experiment, I could get on the DC Metro at Courthouse and the battery would be drained by the time I got to L'Enfant Plaza.

Some people -- not all -- must have thought I was crazy. To be honest, I think I was crazy. But then, I wouldn't have learned as much, would I not?