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When idle the drive utilization is <5%. The drive is only at 100% usage shortly after booting and when doing upgrades, scanning for viruses, etc. Unfortunately, this seems like every time I need to use the computer since I only boot it up a few times a week at most. My goal is to have the...

I have a 5-6 year old Dell Inspiron 14R (N4110) that I use for light tasks. Task manager often shows my disk at 100% and performance grinds to a halt. Is it worth updating to a SDD? My specs are as follows: Intel HM67 chipset Intel Core i3 2310M 2.1Ghz 4GB RAM DDR3 (2x2) 500 GB HDD @5400RPM...