Can i upgrade from hdd to ssd in my 7 years old laptop?

[Anmol25]

My laptop is Hp pavilion sleek book 15 b002ee with intel core i5 1st generation processor. It has 4gb of RAM and 500gb HDD. The hard disk takes too much time to boot up and although takes further time to do small things too. Can i upgrade from hdd to sdd? Or i could upgrade ram so that the processing speed would be increased? Does it really helps the laptop to process faster by using sdd? 

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Yes, replacing the SATA mechanical hard drive with a 2.5'"SATA SSD will help performance considerably.

I recommend you replace the drive with a Western Digital Blue SA510 2.5" 500 GB SSD:

Amazon.com: Western Digital 500GB WD Blue SA510 SATA Internal Solid State Drive SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/...

Or this Sandisk Ultra model:

Amazon.com: SanDisk Ultra 3D NAND 500GB Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5 Inch /7 mm, Up to 560 MB...

Below is the link to the service manual, where you can find the hard drive removal and replacement procedure:

c03733729 (hp.com) 

[Anmol25]

Does it worth it for my laptop? Does it increase the overall performance? If yes then Thanks a lot.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Yes, if you like your notebook and have $45 or so USD to buy a 2.5" SATA SSD with, it is worth it.

I changed all of the hard drives out in my notebooks that had mechanical hard drives.

Even ones older than yours that only had SATA II drive controllers, the SSD's made a very good improvement.

You may also want to install another 4 GB memory chip and bump up the memory to 8 GB.

Crucial 4GB DDR3L-1600 SODIMM | CT51264BF160B | Crucial.com