How to find out if your laptop can take an SSD

Give your old laptop a big performance boost.

Give your old laptop a big performance boost with one simple upgrade: replacing its traditional, spinning-platter hard drive (HDD) with a chip-based solid state drive (SSD). SSDS are becoming more affordable, and they are magnitudes faster than a hard drive in reading and writing data.

There’s just one question: Can your laptop even take an SSD? If you’re not sure, we’ll help you figure it out in this video.