Yesterday I decided to haul out and do a Windows 21H2 update on an old Lenovo T530 that I haven't used in years now.
The laptop has a 160 GB 5400 rpm HDD installed. Took like forever just to boot up. When I did the Windows 21H2 update, from the time I clicked on setup.exe, it was almost 3 1/2 hours until the system was updated. In contrast, on several systems with SSDs, the update took 40-50 minutes. For sure the CPU is slower than current systems' CPUs, but during the update, the drive activity light was on practically all the time.0
If this laptop wasn't a second-string backup system, I would need to install an SSD.
The laptop has a 160 GB 5400 rpm HDD installed. Took like forever just to boot up. When I did the Windows 21H2 update, from the time I clicked on setup.exe, it was almost 3 1/2 hours until the system was updated. In contrast, on several systems with SSDs, the update took 40-50 minutes. For sure the CPU is slower than current systems' CPUs, but during the update, the drive activity light was on practically all the time.0
If this laptop wasn't a second-string backup system, I would need to install an SSD.