Sata drive to SSD

[Lesd2017]

Hi Guys,

I have a Macbook and it has an SSD hard drive in it and it kicks my Star Wars Special Edition Notebook - 15-an001na (ENERGY STAR) butt in speed in booting up and all round really.

I watched a bloke on you tube upgrade his star wars pavillion to have an SSD drive and I wondered if my model would take one and was there a max size of SSD drive it would take?

Regards

Les

[banhien · Accepted solution]

@Lesd2017

The following link shows specs of your machine

   https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c04980429

It only has 1 TB 5400 rpm SATA. If you wish to use SSD, you can use the following steps (I do it at least 4 times each year)

(a) Buy a standard 2.5" 1 TB SSD from Crucial, Samsung, SanDisk ...,

(b) Buy a 2.5" USB-SATA enclosure and put SSD inside,

(c) Connect USB enclosure to laptop and clone existing HDD to it,

(d) Remove SSD and swap with HDD,

Now you can put old HDD to the enclosure and use it as an external HDD.

Note: SSD vendor may give you a clone software otherwise you can use one of the following free software

    https://blogs.systweak.com/2017/05/10-best-disk-cloning-software-for-windows/

Regards.

[Lesd2017]

Thank you for helping, is there a maximum size in MB of SSD I can put in instead of the sata drive i have?

Regards

Les

[banhien]

@Lesd2017

I know there are 2TB SSD's around but I still recomend the ones I know: 1TB.

Regards.