I have an old Dell XPS M1530 laptop that was given to me. It was originally running Windows Vista and I upgraded to Windows 10 to test something but, since Microsoft killed the loophole to use a Windows 7 product key, I installed Linux Mint. The thing actually runs quite well with Linux and I will keep the thing.
My question is that it comes with a 500GB SATA spin drive. The system will never need that much space as, for the most part, I will just install GIMP (graphics editor) and Libre Office. Of course there will be other odds and ends but not a lot. The thing is that, since I did some drive updates on my main, I happen to have a SanDisk 240GB SATA SSD. For the intent of this system 240GB should be more than enough. It looks like a pretty easy drive swap but, of course, I'll need to do a clean install as I'm not about to go through making an image to an external that would likely take longer than an install.
Last time I bench marked the 240GB drive I was getting read rates of ~550MB/sec.. Think I'll see any performance difference with the quicker drive? I think any difference will be pretty minor but I have no other use for the SSD and it would give me another 500GB external drive...
LOL! This will likely be done before there is a response but I'd still like opinions.