Can this be installed as a 2nd hard drive to increase speed of laptop? null

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Valsar · Accepted Answer

First of all most laptops do not hold more than one hard drive. Second it would only speed up what was running from that SSD. So if your operating system was running on the old HDD and you were just using the second (SSD) for storage or small programs you would not see much speed increase at all. My suggestion is to reinstall / image Windows onto the new SSD and use it as the primary. Use an external hard drive for storage or if you can install 2 hard drives in your laptop then use the HDD for storage. Regards, Valsar.

Answered by Valsar 9 years ago

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CompuGeek · Answer

Depends on the laptop. If it can support 2 drives then yes, but you would want to make sure that the SSD (Solid State Device) is the main boot drive of the system and the 2nd HDD (Hard Disk Drive) is where data can be stored. If your laptop cant support 2 drives then I would recommend getting an SSD that can support all your data and fully switching over to the SSD, as it would give you a great boost in performance.

Answered by CompuGeek 9 years ago

steve · Answer

Most laptops only have room for 1 hard drive. So if you plan on putting an SSD drive in your laptop, you will most likely have to backup your files and install windows on new drive. On a desktop pc you can add multiple hard drives but you want windows to be on the ssd.

Answered by steve 9 years ago

James · Answer

It would be best used as a primary drive so you can boot the OS off of it. Then you will notice a huge speed difference.

fubarsport · Answer

NO - Unless the operating system is being installed onto that drive.
I replaced my 5 year old hard drive 500GB went with 1TB hard drive and its running better now then when it was brand new.

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