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<blockquote data-quote="Aries" data-source="post: 3244101" data-attributes="member: 44328"><p>They are usually MUCH faster, you need to compare (or have someone) look at the transfer speeds. Faster costs a little more, but pretty much any SSD will be faster than a mechanical drive.</p><p></p><p>You have to know what kind of drive you have, at 5 years old it's most likely a SATA drive, and you should be able to find a comparable SATA SSD without any trouble. A lot of times they come with software to clone your old drive to the new one, but it can be tricky. It would probably be more reliable to do a clean install, but a clone is at least theoretically possible. You'd probably have to connect both drives to the computer at the same time, which isn't especially difficult but can be kind of intimidating for a casual computer user.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aries, post: 3244101, member: 44328"] They are usually MUCH faster, you need to compare (or have someone) look at the transfer speeds. Faster costs a little more, but pretty much any SSD will be faster than a mechanical drive. You have to know what kind of drive you have, at 5 years old it's most likely a SATA drive, and you should be able to find a comparable SATA SSD without any trouble. A lot of times they come with software to clone your old drive to the new one, but it can be tricky. It would probably be more reliable to do a clean install, but a clone is at least theoretically possible. You'd probably have to connect both drives to the computer at the same time, which isn't especially difficult but can be kind of intimidating for a casual computer user. [/QUOTE]
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