Got an old laptop kicking about that is now just too darn slow to be useful? Well, breathe new life into it by following T3's laptop HDD to SSD installation guide.

There are few ways to make a laptop faster that are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD).

And it turns out that there’s just enough room inside the Acer Aspire One case to cram a 1.8″ disc in there. Acer does sell a hard drive version of the Aspire One.

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So to that end I would like to replace the (I am guessing) 5400 RPM HDD with a SSD and watch it speed up considerably. I don't know where to start with this.

I ripped out the old hard drive and replaced it with an SSD (solid state drive). This absolutely changed everything. My computer is now blazing fast with a solid-state drive and 16GB of RAM.

It boots & works fine, but the basic computer is so slow to begin with that it's hard to detect much of a speedup with the SSD.

Regardless of which technology the computer uses, however, the hard drive is fortunately one of the easiest devices to replace in a PC.