I want to replace the Mq04ABF100 drive with a Ssd Drive in a 15-GW0023 od laptop is this doable

[Caplij]

I want to take the Toshiba drive out and replace it with an SSD drive.  What should I look for in the SSD drive?  The laptop runs really slow now.  I also will be upgrading to 16 GB memory. 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You have two options:

1. You can replace the 2.5" mechanical hard drive with a 2.5" SSD.

I recommend this one:

Amazon.com: Western Digital 1TB WD Blue SA510 SATA Internal Solid State Drive SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s,...

2. Since your notebook has a M.2 slot that supports the much faster performing NVMe SSD's, you can install one of those instead.

Should be 3x - 5x faster than the above WD Blue SATA SSD.

Something like this:

Amazon.com: Crucial P310 1TB SSD, PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 2280, Up to 7,100MB/s, for Laptop, Desktop (PC)...

Since your notebook's M.2 slot is only PCIe Gen 3.0, the Gen 4.0 SSD will not run at its maximum advertised read/write speeds from the Gen 3 slot.

You can either remove the 2.5" drive, or retain it for storage only, which means that you have to remove Windows from the drive or the notebook will always want to boot from the 2.5" drive first and not the NVMe SSD.

[Caplij]

Thank you Paul,  i have ordered the NVMe SSD drive today.   Now to go make a backup copy of my current drive.....

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.