Slow Laptop/Freshly Restored

2.5" SATA HDD and SSD drives are interchangeable.

Post a link to your current HDD model specs.

There's really not to confirm if it's a 2.5" SATA HDD. I personally recommend Samsung SSDs.


Post the link to your laptop specs too.

There's nothing to think about here then - 2.5" SATA HDD can be replaced by a 2.5" SATA SSD.

I've done this before numerous times, so posting from experience.

Arily said:

What size would you suggest?

What size do you have now and how much is empty? I personally wouldn't buy anything smaller than 500 GB minimum. Depending on the price difference, go bigger if possible.

If 1 TB served you well before, that's a good choice to keep you set for a while.

If you decide to upgrade to a SSD, buy a USB enclosure to put your HDD into so you can use to for additional storage like making backups:
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Have you ever had to reinstall Windows because something went wrong? With a backup image, you can be up and running in minutes.