Brilliant for older HP envy laptop € 45 2TB NVME M2 SSD

Hi folks
got a perfectly good HP i5 Gen 6 laptop - perfectly fast enough for most things - it's around 6 years old. Replaced its internal 256 GB nvme device (which I'm now using in an old SONY VAIO laptop - replaced the old SATA spinner with this device by engineering twiddlery with a SATA->nvme adapter) and replaced with a cheap 2TB € 45.00 Netac Nvme SSD -- supports gen 3 nvme 1.3 which is needed on older laptops. Great to have a nice lot of Internal storage on that -- not blazingly fast compared with gen 4 and modern hardware but far faster than the old one I took out. Enough also for a load of VM's as well.

That old Sony VAIO is running W10 and I use it in an emergency if all else fails and I need a bootable device.

2TB of reasonable nvme storage for € 45 i less than ½ the cost of a classic 2.5 inch ssd can't be bad -- shows these types of devices are really beginning to get really cheap -- I'm sure in a few years you won't see classic spinners of less tha 10 TB except in archives etc.

How these devices though stand up to being used in servers with 100,000's users is another issue of course but if you've got older machines it works fine.

suggest people have a look at these devices more now. Even on that old Sony VAIO (so old it doesn't even have USB3 and comes with an internal DVD drive). The i3 processor is quite good and the screen does HDMI at 1920 X 1080 to external monitor. I was thinking of W11 on that machine but with only USB2 to load and install the whole kybosh --forget it although as a VM I might mess around with it.

I only consign stuff to the tip if I really have to. So much good serviceable equipment is chucked out needlessly.

cheers
jimbo

Jimbo - a lot of these old computers could be repurposed for low income schoolchildren or used to teach kids in lesser developed countries.

bfunke said:

Jimbo - a lot of these old computers could be repurposed for low income schoolchildren or used to teach kids in lesser developed countries.

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Good idea. I've rehabbed some machines instead of getting them put in the landfill, had some Notebooks amassed I was able to get Win10 on so sent 4 to Honduras with a missionary.

I've always felt the same way about repurposing. Wouldn't it be great if the forum established some sort of repurposing program that could benefit under developed countries. With the reputation this forum has built, I'll bet even the sponsors would pitch in to help out with shipping costs to get old laptops to organizations across the world to distribute to people that can use them.
It's not just under developed countries who can use them either. I have access to a lot of older games and have rebuilt and donated several locally to shut-ins. They don't have internet but they pass a lot of time playing the games. I even donated future time to keep them running as long as I can.

Handled correctly, such an endeavor could change lives.