

Conceptually, hard drives work a bit like old-fashioned record players. Historically, most computers have used spinning hard disk drives for permanent data storage. That said, there are some practical challenges you’ll need to consider before you do, so let’s look further into SSD drives. It will completely change your computing experience. Is your computer performing slower than you like, or are you looking for a way to boost performance? If your computer is more than a couple of years old, replacing the hard drive with an solid-state drive (SSD) is one of the most cost-effective changes you can make. SSDs are changing rapidly, however, so we updated this post by Peter Cohen from December of 2016 with the latest information to help you take advantage of SSDs. Adding or upgrading an SSD is, along with adding memory, the most popular DIY computer upgrade.
