CS900

PNY CS900 500GB 3D NAND 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - (SSD7CS900-500-RB) Broad compatibility, known reliability, can be used to make an Xbox 360 hard drive as well, and only $30 USD

I have a pure SSD server. your drive choice is terrible for a use case like a storage/remote server. the CS900 has no DRAM, so there is no write cache. the initial speed is because the PC on the receiving end is using its system ram as a cache, and once that fills up, you are back to the actual writ

Just buy an ssd from amazon. So much better and faster installs. It's like 25$ https://www.amazon.com/PNY-CS900-500GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B07XZLN9KM

These hp laptops from that generation are so nice to work on. I would suggest that you get the t7400 instead, it's like 8-10% less powerful but waaaay cheaper than the t7600, that's the CPU I use on my Compaq nc8430 and it runs pretty great. I see that your model has intel GMA 950 integrated graphic

open up Disk Cleanup and then delete the old Windows updates which would also clear up any files that is not needed and also you would have files in your downloads folder as well. It would be wise as well to get something like the PNY CS900 500GB SSD drive for about $50 for your games and keep your

Installing it physically is pretty easy, if you are on ps3 slim you really can't get it wrong, and if you do that's actually impressive, just like putting a cube into a square hole I'd recommend watching mrmario yt video, he covered the subject to update all the stuff correctly on a already jb ps3 A

I use a PNY cs900. You can get a 1tb for $50 on Amazon. I have it installed in my ps2, xbox and xbox360.

Yes, OP. Your laptop supports 2.5" SATA SSD or HDD. Both use same connectors. I would suggest you to upgrade it with a SATA SSD rather than a HDD because HDD is slower and SATA SSD is faster than HDD (~560Mb/sec). SATA SSD is slower than modern NVME, but faster than a HDD. Like this one > Kingston A

So, the PNY CS900 is a very low end laptop Sata SSD and not suitable for anything other then a low end workstation or a low end laptop. I would not use them for anything like ZFS or hosting VM disks. they are DRAM-Less and rely on the controller direct IO access to NAND no PLP, so they do not cache

PNY CS900 SSD’s, 500gb or 1Tb work well. Cheap too.