How to Add SSD Speed to Your Laptop Without Losing Storage Capacity

A flash RAM based SSD gives your PC fast speed, but it is so expensive by gigabyte. An old style, spinning-platter hard drive gives you a great amount of storage for very few money. But if you want to use both and set them up intelligently, you can enjoy a hard drive's mass storage without losing too much performance.

But it works only if you install two drive in a PC. That's usually an option only in larger laptops. Some laptops even affordable ones, support the standard 2.5 inch hard drive/SSD and you have an another option to support the flash only mSATA or M2 drives. This still leaves the option for your to populate the mSATA and run the hard drive, too. But let's suppose you perhaps have the typical laptops that only has a single drive bay supporting one hard drive. Here are five solution.

Five Ways to Speed Up your Laptop

1. A two-in-one hybrid drive

Devices like western digital's WD black put two drive, one should be SSD and a hard drive into one container with one SATA connector. For example, the black has a 120GB SSD and 1TB HDD. Thus you can have both mass storage and speed together.

But these hybrids hava their problems. They are not easy to install and often need a   special software for setup.You must move windows to one drive and most of your data  to other. That can be little tricky. These drives tend to be 9.5mm thick which means they don't fir in all the lapptops.

2. A cached hybrid drive

LIke the 2-in-1, these both drives mix two techologies in a unique way.

Drive like those in seagate's SSHD line use flash RAM as a cache to increase speed of the hard drive. Because they are seen by the single drive windows and by the PC. You can simply duplicate the old drive to new one.

They come in all thickness. You'll almost certainly find one that fits in your drive.

3. An internal SSD and an external hard drive

This is the easiest as well as cheapest solution, but it's also the slowest. Install SSD into your laptop,then install windows and after that programs, now your user data files. Then put everything in the external hard drive.

4: Network-Attached Storage

You can buy a Network Attached Storage(NAS) device, install one or more hard drives inside it and connect it to your network router. You can acces your files over your network. Most modern NAS system also provide a private cloud, so you can access your data over the internet, as well.

An NAS may be faster than the external hard drive. Once it starts working perfectly. But it will more expensive and more difficult to set up and if if you work remotely to access files.

5: Buy a large SSD

Yes, they are expensive about $300 for 960GB. But this is a fastest, simple and convenient option.