With a new Samsung SSD, this old Dell Laptop will soon be much faster than it has ever been.
The steps on this post are done with Windows 10, which you should upgrade to soon, since the free upgrade offer ends July 29. Previous versions of Windows don't support SSDs very well. The computer needs to be running Windows 7, 8 or 10. In this post, I'll walk you through how to replace a Windows computer's internal hard drive with an SSD while keeping the software, data and settings exactly the same.
You can find out more about the differences between traditional hard drives and SSDs here.) (A standard SSD looks like a traditional 2.5-inch laptop hard drive, but it's much faster. The good news is that swapping out the drives is quite easy to do and not too expensive either, thanks to the fact that SSDs are now much more affordable than they were a few years ago. Do you know that replacing that hard drive with a solid-state drive (SSD) will make the machine run much faster? It's true, a 5-year-old computer with an SSD boots much faster than even a brand new rig running on a regular hard drive. This is also the case of most older computers. If your new Windows 10 computer takes a long time to boot up, that's likely because it runs on a regular hard drive. Editors' note: This post was originally published on March 13, 2012, and is periodically updated.
