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Question

HDD Upgrade to SSD

Apr 28, 2017 6:38AM PDT

I would like to upgrade my Asus Q552UB laptop HDD (HGST 5400 rpm 1Tb.Sata 6 Gb/s) to a SSD! what would be a good choice to speed it up? thanks SMS.

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Re: HDD to SSD
Apr 28, 2017 7:54AM PDT

There's not that much performance difference between SSD's, but it's easy to check reviews.

However, a 1TB SSD is expensive. If 256 or 512 GB would be feasible given your use of the laptop, I'd do that.

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Always a nice upgrade.
Apr 28, 2017 8:18AM PDT