There are few ways to make a laptop faster that are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD).

There are few ways to make a laptop faster that are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD).

So to that end I would like to replace the (I am guessing) 5400 RPM HDD with a SSD and watch it speed up considerably. I don't know where to start with this.

It boots & works fine, but the basic computer is so slow to begin with that it's hard to detect much of a speedup with the SSD.

Regardless of which technology the computer uses, however, the hard drive is fortunately one of the easiest devices to replace in a PC.

Got an old laptop kicking about that is now just too darn slow to be useful? Well, breathe new life into it by following T3's laptop HDD to SSD installation guide.

For example, booting up a computer with an SSD can take less than 10 seconds, while the same process on an HDD might take over a minute.

Has your notebook's storage slowed down to a crawl? Is it making a racket? Perhaps its time you upgraded to an SSD.