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.

Tech Computers & PCs Laptops How to replace a slow laptop HDD with a far faster and bigger SSD Got an old laptop kicking about that is now just too darn slow to be useful? Well, breathe new life ...

When I say old, I mean OLD. I have a 15" 867MHz Titanium. In it's day it was a hot dog, but now it's been relegated to checking and writing e-mail and basic web browsing, like checking the weather ...

I ripped out the old hard drive and replaced it with an SSD (solid state drive). This absolutely changed everything. My computer is now blazing fast with a solid-state drive and 16GB of RAM.

Drive-ectomy, DIY-style If you're simply swapping out your boot hard drive for an SSD, then the process is the same as replacing your factory-supplied hard drive with a new hard drive.

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HDDs used to be the standard for gaming 5-6 years ago, and one of the reasons was that their counterpart — SSDs — were available at highly steep prices.