I have an old 2008 TOSHIBA Satellite.  The condition is still mint, apart from the touchpad not working. I'll just get a USB mouse to fix that.

The PC has been retired since 2014 due to being painfully slow. I want to try and revive it in the new year. My current PC is starting to give problems.

I more or less just want the PC to act as a decent PC for typing, browsing the NET and watching videos, streaming.

I plan to install a SSD. Will this be sufficient or will I also have to upgrade RAM?

Please give me suggestions if there is anything else I should do.

Btw, the PC runs Windows 7. I have a Toshiba Satellite L300 I bought in February 2008. It still WORKS servicably for basic tasks.

The biggest upgrade in performance was simply wiping the preinstalled copy of Vista and installing a fresh retail copy of Vista.

A fresh OS install is a good first step for evaluating if a system's performance issues are a result of it's hardware or because of it's software configuration.

SSD can provide a good boost most of the time. And really replacing the HDD at all is probably a good idea if it has never been replaced before. Mine is running OK with a "hand-me-down" HDD from a new system that RECEIVED an SSD upgrade.


Thanks, will an ordinary SSD work or will I have to buy a special type of SSD? Ordinary will do just fine. But remember that it will not work on full speed due to older sata port in your toshiba. If you have just 1gb of ram, i doubt that you will see a "real" boost in performance, even with a ssd drive. Well, I don't know your specs of toshiba ANYWAY