04-13-2022, 03:03 PM
While everything seemed to work just fine with my circa 2008 Toshiba Satellite L300, things started to get a little annoying when I put in a (cheap) Kingston 240GB SSD. The original 320GB HDD was a ticking time bomb with over 300 bad blocks so I knew it was only a matter of time before it went kaboom in a cloud of dust. However, it never failed to boot, nor gave me any indication of failure.
Boot times with the SSD are a bit better and apps seem a little faster but coincidentally, with the the new SSD came an issue with power management not working properly with fans not coming on when they should and a non responsive system coming out of suspend, requiring a reboot.
The interesting thing is that everything functioned correctly with the original HDD. So as long as I don't enable "suspend" the old girl functions reasonably well (at least so far) with the new SSD.
Boot times with the SSD are a bit better and apps seem a little faster but coincidentally, with the the new SSD came an issue with power management not working properly with fans not coming on when they should and a non responsive system coming out of suspend, requiring a reboot.
The interesting thing is that everything functioned correctly with the original HDD. So as long as I don't enable "suspend" the old girl functions reasonably well (at least so far) with the new SSD.