My HP Pavilion Elite m9515f hard drive is about to die; so, I took it to Fry’s and asked them to upgrade it, if possible, to a 1T SSD. Due to a contract dispute, they we’re completely out of ...

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.

By adding a solid-state drive to a budget laptop, either as a hard-drive replacement or companion, you can realize noticeable gains and get additional life from your portable PC.

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.

Not all laptops make it easy to replace your SSD, but for those where you can, it can be done in just a few minutes. Here's how to install an SSD in your laptop.

With the standard hard drive, the laptop booted in 54.59 seconds and shut down in 17.94 seconds. With the SSD in place, it took 38.71 seconds to start up and 13 seconds to shut down.

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.

Just a few years back only high-end PCs and laptops offered fast SSD-based storage solutions. As the price of the SSDs trickled down, more laptops and computers started replacing HDDs with SSDs or ...

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).