Its pricing is still high in comparison to mechanical storage, despite significant price drops of the former in recent years. That’s obviously the biggest drawback of switching to SSD tech. Basically, this was a storage upgrade of the L520, although capacity actually decreased more than 5 times.
For this test, we’ve used an old Lenovo ThinkPad L520 (2012 model) laptop with an Intel Pentium processor and 4GB of RAM. We’ve put the Kingston V300 with 60GB capacity, which sells for about $60 at the time of this writing, against a Seagate Momentus 320GB hard drive at 5,400rpm. Even the budget Kingston SSDNow V300 Series SSD we used in our test will make significant difference, not only in benchmarks but also in the real life use. There’s no doubt that any SSD you can find on the market today as a traditional hard drive replacement will save you lots of precious time when copying files, loading games, or waiting the system to boot up. If you haven’t upgraded your laptop’s hard drive to a solid state drive yet, this quick comparison between the two will show you what you’re missing performance-wise, but also downfalls (actually a single downfall) of the newer generation of storage.