Dell Inspiron 530 - SSD Worth it?

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Published on 2009-11-04T17:59:53Z Indexed on 2012/11/15 11:09 UTC
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I'm going to be upgrading my Dell Inspiron 530 (2.0 Ghz Intel Dual Core CPU, 3 GB RAM) to windows 7 soon, and rather than backup and reformat my existing drive, I'm planning on getting a 2nd drive to replace my current primary, and moving it to a secondary. Thus, this seems like an excellent time to get a solid-state drive, if its going to be worth it. As far as I can tell this machine has a SATA-I controller, and I'm unsure if I'll see a noticeable performance increase with an SSD without going to SATA-II.

So I have a three part question here given all that:

  1. Will spending the money on a SSD be worth it if hook it into a SATA-I controller?

  2. Is it reasonable to upgrade the controller on this machine to a SATA-II controller?

  3. Given that this PC is kind of old to begin with, am I better off performance wise to just stick with a faster HDD?

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