Omen 17T has been slow since I got it in 2019

[jfguerrap]

I have an Omen 15T with a 1 TB 7200 rpm SATA. I bought it because I needed high power for my work (I am not a gamer). Since then I have replaced it wit a different laptop because I could never get it to perform.

From the star **bleep** has been EXCRUCIATINGLY SLOW in EVERY part of its operation. From boot up, to starting  the apps, to the apps themselves being slow (including File Explorer), to the browsers being slow (and no, it has NOTHING to do with my home connection which is 1Gb and all my other devices work great).

I don't really use i other than to listen to Spotify, as a home storage device with an external drive, and Office 365 apps such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Over the years I have tried reinstalling windows (at least twice), uninstalling all gaming apps, reformatting the hard drive, troubleshooting the same, and most recently upgrading to Windows 11.

Recently I got a hard rive error and had to go recover it through a Microsoft key I didn't know I had. When it booted up again it asked to repair the hard drive. I told it to go ahead but it was unable to do so. It gave me the potion to continue the reboot and got me back to Windows.

I got to thinking if the problem all along has been the hard drive (I have no idea but PLEASE DO NOT ASK ME TO DO A CHKDSK OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT BECAUSE I HAVE ALREADY DONE SO).

I am willing to try one last thing as that is to replace the hard drive with an SSD drive. And I don't need a 1Tb drive anymore given how I use that device.

Any thoughts on a) what could have been slowing this device down and b) whether or not an SSD drive would help?

Thanks!

[banhien]

@jfguerrap 

I have an HP Omen 15-dc0xxx machine, namely HP Omen 15-dc0071TX which is a sister/brother of your machine. My machine has dual storage (256GB M.2 SSD and 1TB 7200RPM SATA HDD). Same as you I am not a gamer, I bought this machine and normally use once a week to edit my grand children photos and videos using Adobe products. My machine has 32GB of RAM, that helps a lot.

Now back to your machine, you have few options but my think the best options now

1. Add 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD to it then move Windows to new SSD,

2. How much RAM it has now, it supports 32GB of RAM,

3. You can replace 1TB 7200RPM using 1TB or 2TB SATA 3 SSD.

You can do 1 then 2 then 3 or do all in one go

Regards.

[jfguerrap]

Thanks a lot first for your prompt reply and second for your suggestions. My machine has 16GB so I may go ahead and upgrade to 32GB and also switch out the SATA HDD for an SSD. Thanks again!