What Kind of SSD Does This Old Laptop Support?

Current SSD supports about 6GB/s, so is the upgrade will even make a difference if it supports speed up to 150BM/s?

To get that kind of speed (that is what I have here on my 2016 laptop) you need an NVMe drive.

Unlikely that will work on your old laptop. You need the most basic SATA SSD drive and that may work if you can find drivers for your machine.

Think twice about putting money into a decade old machine.

You can put there such drive: https://www.amazon.com/Intel-SATA-2-5-Inch-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B0058UVTDY/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1543709321&sr=1-2&keywords=160GB
You can put there for sure 250GB SSD as well. It will give you some speed upgrade but not that very impressive one.

Thanks dbrunton; that's what I was looking for, but couldn't find.

John, I was incorrect; looks like it supports SATA II.

noxcho, thanks for recommendation. I will continue to look around.

Thanks all for the quick replies!!

Yes, but such an old laptop won't deliver high speeds from an SSD. That is I was suggesting.

150MB/Second = SATA I @ 1.5Gbps.

Unless there's an old 5400RPM spindle in there, or even a 7200 RPM spindle it's not really worth it to put a newer SATA SSD in the laptop.

If it is indeed a SATA I then there is the risk that a newer SATA SSD won't like being in there.

The SATA spec is backwards compatible, so if the port only supports a slower speed, that is no issue. Any SATA drive that physically fits should be compatible.

https://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8142/~/difference-between-sata-i%2C-sata-ii-and-sata-iii

The only reason to use SSD in such a laptop would be the carying around of a laptop. With rotational disks that would ruin the bearings after a while.  With an SSD this is no issue.  This is one of the 2 reason why i always swapped drives on a laptop, The other was to keep OS & data carrying over from old laptop- to new... (yep SSD is old than laptop).

IMHO the reason to put SSD in an old computer is to make it perform much better, and to extend the useful life by years. For most uses, an old computer with an SSD will provide a better user experience than a more modern computer with a HDD.

Hi All.

Want to let you know that the 'Old Laptop' with a new SSD is so much faster on the boot-up and loading of Office applications. For example, with the HHD hard drive it look about 5 secs to load excel and now it takes less than 2 secs. Thank you again for your inputs!