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).

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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.

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.

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

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

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.

From the boot chime to desktop is about 25 seconds tops. I did upgrade from 4gb to 8gb earlier this year so with the SSD I finally have a Mac that runs respectably well for my needs anyway.

The first is a SATA SSD, which comes in a 2.5-inch form factor and connects to your motherboard with the same cables and ports as a SATA HDD. The second (and newer) is the M.2 SSD.

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.