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The hard drive on my laptop crashed, it has a loud ticking coming from the drive. Is my laptop capable of running a SSD drive?

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The hard drive on my laptop crashed, it has a loud ticking coming from the drive. Is my laptop capable of running a SSD drive?


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Yes, basically you can replace existing HDD with any standard 2.5" SSD's from reliable vendors on market today. It has 1 TB 5400 rpm SATA now, your can replace HDD using 2.5" 1TB or 2TB with 7mm thickness from Samsung, Crucial, Sandisk ... For example

 

        https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/hp-15-ay009dx/CT11521647   (1TB)

        https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/hp-15-ay009dx/CT11362195   (2TB)

 

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@mcnaught82 wrote:

The hard drive on my laptop crashed, it has a loud ticking coming from the drive. Is my laptop capable of running a SSD drive?


@mcnaught82 

 

Yes, basically you can replace existing HDD with any standard 2.5" SSD's from reliable vendors on market today. It has 1 TB 5400 rpm SATA now, your can replace HDD using 2.5" 1TB or 2TB with 7mm thickness from Samsung, Crucial, Sandisk ... For example

 

        https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/hp-15-ay009dx/CT11521647   (1TB)

        https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/hp-15-ay009dx/CT11362195   (2TB)

 

Regards.

BH
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