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

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

That'll work but for about the same price you could get an ssd, that'll use less power and be quicker (even on the Wii U's usb 2.0 due to much faster access times) either of these: https://www.amazon.com/PNY-CS900-500GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B07XZLN9KM https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-480GB-Solid-SA400S3

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 diffrence is that sata drives will be slower, but just for games it shouldn't be noticeable. However from what I've heard for sata ssds you really want to have a dram cache or they can stop to a crawl when transfering large files. For just games it might be enough though. Something like PNY CS90

Switch to an SSD. I Personally have the PNY Cs900, and it is phenomenal, but also cheap!

I have used only 3 brands of SSD, and NVMe. over a 10 year period. Samsung, Western Digital, and PNY.All of which have been 100% without issue. PNY CS900 cheap SATA SSDs for various upgrades etc.. 240GB-500GB The WD, and Samsung drives I have used in numerous builds, and my own personal builds.SN750

hdd are slow and fail often you want an SSD. everything you buy in life is based on how much money you have to spend. if your system is old a 2.5inch sata ssd is fine otherwise newer nvme drive is faster and best https://pcpartpicker.com/product/JFjRsY/western-digital-wd-blue-sn5000-1-tb-m2-2280-pci