Hi All,

I've got an HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop that's 4 to 6 years old, at a guess. The RAM is max'ed out and the only other thing I can think of to improve it's speed is to add an SSD drive.

I've run "lshw" and below what I think is relevent:

*-pci:6
description: Host bridge
product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 103
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.3
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=k8temp
resources: irq:0
*-scsi
physical id: e
logical name: scsi2
capabilities: emulated
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: WDC WD3200BEVT-6
vendor: Western Digital
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 11.0
serial: WD-WXE208C53183
size: 298GiB (320GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=00001841
*-volume:0
description: Linux filesystem partition
vendor: Linux
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
logical name: /boot
version: 1.0
serial: 31120682-3ca3-4a81-91d9-d0122311238a
size: 243MiB
capacity: 243MiB
capabilities: primary bootable extended_attributes ext2 initialized
configuration: filesystem=ext2 modified=2014-02-15 08:24:50 mount.fstype=ext2 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl state=mounted
*-volume:1
description: Extended partition
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sda2
size: 297GiB
capacity: 297GiB
capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
*-logicalvolume
description: Linux filesystem partition
physical id: 5
logical name: /dev/sda5
capacity: 297GiB

Does this mean that it's an IDE connection and SCSI is being emulated and if so would an SSD speed my system up much?

Bad things I see.

#1 laptop
Reason is they are not designed to be fast. Almost can't make them fast.

#2 ATA Disk
I assume it has no easy way to connect a fast ssd. Might not be set at full ata speeds but at best what is it?? 133 or so maybe. I'd think more like 66 on a laptop. Could be forced in some boot option maybe.


As I recall, IBM and ZIP (zipdrive parallel) released a scsi driver model to open public. That was later found to be a very neat way to speed up how Linux uses storage. As you may notice almost every hard drive/usb and even cd/dvd has some scsi way of connection. It is only a virtual connection and not a real scsi connection. It still relies on the hardware and limit of speeds.


Well, here you go too.

width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz

I think you'd be wasting money on an ssd. They aren't cheap for an ata and won't fit usually any adapter cards.

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