How to Upgrade Your Laptop’s Hard Drive to an SSD

There’s no better way to speed up and upgrade a acer aspire battery laptop than to replace its mechanical drive with an SSD (Solid State Drive). It’s a no-brainer, but if the thought of reinstalling Windows 10 and all of your programs and then tweaking all of their settings gives you the chills, don’t worry. In an hour or two, you can easily be up and running with a clone of your current system — except now your laptop will have blazing performance.

The process of upgrading your laptop to SSD is fairly simple if you have easy access to your hard drive via a removable panel on the acer laptop batteries bottom of the laptop. If you have an Ultrabook or your laptop doesn’t have that kind of easy upgrade access (e.g., the bottom panel is sealed), it’s a whole different ballgame, and you’ll need to consult your laptop manual for instructions on getting to that drive and finding the right replacement drive. Otherwise, this tutorial will help those of you with the removable panel through preparing your laptop, acer laptop charger cloning your system, and making the big swap.

Find the right SSD form factor and interface. The other thing you’ll want to check before you go out and buy a replacement SSD is your drive’s form factor; you need to make sure the drive will fit in the laptop. Most laptops have 2.5-inch drives, but ultraportable notebooks may use the 1.8-inch disk size. Also, even 2.5-inch drives can have different thicknesses– 7 mm or 9.5 mm–and different interfaces (SATA or IDE, usually in laptops from 2008 or before). Laptops most widely use 2.5-inch SATA drives , laptop battery for sony  but you should check your laptop manual or specifications to make sure you buy the right size SSD with the proper interface. Alternatively, you may be able to find this information by visiting Crucial’s Advisor Tool or looking at your current drive’s label: Open the access panel and look on the drive itself to see if it says 2.5-inch and SATA and sony vaio battery what thickness you need. Generally, 7mm, 2.5-inch SATA SSDs will fit even in the 9.5mm slots and some come with spacers for a tighter fit.