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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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 to speed up your laptop and lengthen its battery life? Swap the hard disk drive out for a speedy solid-state drive.

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.

One potential upgrade to give the older models a speed boost is to switch out the mechanical hard drive for an SSD, a task that isn't as hard to do as people may think.

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.

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