Hi David,

If done right, it can be a reasonable upgrade. Recent versions of
Windows do a good jobs of working with them.
I bought a new laptop a few months ago. It is a high end MSI laptop, and
supports 4 mSATA slots as well as the internal conventional disk. As
soon as I got it, I installed 2 128GB mSATA SSD drives and configured
them in a RAID0 configuration. I made this new drive my C: drive and
re-installed Windows 8.1 on it. I keep the conventional HD for my page
file, and frequently changing storage and scrap space.
This laptop will boot from a cold power off to the login screen in 5
seconds, it is that fast off the SSD drive.

So $95 sounds pretty cheap, unless that is just the labor. SSD drives
start at around $100 for a small one (like maybe 64GB) and can get
pretty expensive once you get up to 512GB.

Russ Poffenberger
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On 11/16/2015 4:07 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>    I got a call today, rom the repair shop that has had my 17" Acer
> laptop for about three weeks.  They expect to be done working on it
> within 2 or 3 more days, but say that they've noticed the hard drive
> "running slow"; for an extra $95, they'll swap it out for an SSD....
>
> David Gillett
>

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