Want to make a really big difference in the speed of your laptop? Most likely your laptop has a hard drive that has disks inside, which is now older technology. The data is stored on those individual disks which are heavy and susceptible to shock and being dropped, etc. These individual disks have moving parts which inevitably break and also performance is not as good as your RAM memory or other “drive” where your data could be stored.
So the newest hard drives, called solid state drives, are made without disks and instead use memory chips instead. This is much lighter, much faster, and more resilient to damage. The main advantage is the speed, often as much as 300% faster than your typical HDD.
Traditional Hard Drive (left) vs Solid State Drive (right)
If you are looking for a boost to your laptop, change your hard drive to a solid state drive and you will see a big difference right away. Here are the steps to make that happen:
- Remove your old hard drive from your laptop
- Get a 128 GB or 256 GB solid state drive
- Use a program like Acronis or Symantec to copy the “image” or snapshot of your machine from the old hard drive to the new hard drive
- Put the solid state drive with the old laptop image into your computer
- Boot up your machine and the computer will be EXACTLY the same software wise, but much much faster.
