We may earn commissions when you buy from links on our site. Why you can trust us. How to Replace Your Hard Drive with an SSD to Make your Laptop Faster by Josh Kirschner on January 20, 2023 ...

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.

How to Add a Solid-State Disk (SSD) to a Desktop Computer. Running a solid state drive on your desktop computer has several advantages over using a traditional hard drive.

Want more speed? More storage? A lighter laptop? Consider swapping out your laptop's hard-disk drive with a solid-state drive.

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

And it turns out that there’s just enough room inside the Acer Aspire One case to cram a 1.8″ disc in there. Acer does sell a hard drive version of the Aspire One.

Some people prefer to keep their old hard drives and replace the optical drive with an SSD. Other people want to keep the optical drive and swap the hard drive for an SSD.

The HP Omen 15 is already a powerful gaming laptop, but if you need more oomph here's how to change out the M.2 SSD, RAM, and HDD.