Repair/upgrade HP 15-da0073ms or Replace?

[Codysmom2]

My 2 TB 5400rpm SATA hard drive is failing.  Can it be replaced with a 1TB ssd?  I would also like to upgrade the memory fron 8GB to 16.  Is this worth doing on a 5+ year old laptop?  It is a model 15-da0073ms.

Thank you!

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

if the notebook is in excellent condition, it would probably be worth upgrading it.

Your notebook has a M.2 slot that supports an even faster type M.2 NVMe SSD, so you may want to consider installing one of those instead of a 2.5" SATA SSD.

You can upgrade the memory and it would be worth installing another 8 GB memory chip in the empty slot to have 16 GB of memory running in dual channel mode, instead of 8 GB running in single channel mode.

Depending on what size M.2 SSD you want, it shouldn't cost much to make your notebook run much better than new.

Below is the link to the service manual.

HP 15 Laptop PC Maintenance and Service Guide

[Codysmom2]

Thank you so much for your suggestions!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.