CS900

The CS900 SSD (what you have there) is a DRAM-less design, meaning that performance can suffer under sustained read operations. While I don’t know how frequently a car has sustained read or write operations, DRAM-less designs are, by and large, a cost-saving measure. It’s not an awful drive, but get

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

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

The pny CS900 has no problem yet it is slow but in simple storage it cannot be used in native OS

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 1TB 3D NAND 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - (SSD7CS900-1TB-RB) https://a.co/d/4ZtDMVM This will do you well better, same form factor, should interface just fine. Edit: just saw not my dollars, sorry about that. Even if it is a bit more though, really get the SSD, the andro

Processor (CPU): [Intel Core i7-11700KF 3.60GHz (5.0GHz Turbo Boost)] — LGA 1200 Graphics Card (GPU): [NVIDIA RTX 3070 Founders Edition 8GB] Memory (RAM): [Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB DDR4 3000MHz CL16] 4X8 Motherboard: [MSI Z590 Torpedo ATX] (BIOS AMI 7D08vAA latest update) - Ethernet Ports: Intel i2

I can, but the problem is its the pny cs900 ssd, only 240gb and runs around 500-550mb/s. Which is kinda slow in today's standard. Another problem is its my mom's old work laptop so idk if she wants to keep her documents on that storage lol

PNY CS900 is DRAMless. its just a low tier SSD. slowdown like this is expected.