If your computer is slow to start, slow to open programs, and slow at just about everything, there’s a good chance the real culprit is an old spinning hard drive. Replacing it with a solid-state drive is the single most noticeable upgrade a computer can get. Same machine, dramatically faster, like getting a whole new computer without paying for one.
It’s also the escape plan when an aging drive starts to fail. Clicking sounds, vanishing files, crashes out of nowhere: drives give warnings, and the time to move your data is before the last one.
Before I come out, I confirm what your machine takes, SSD or M.2, and what fits your budget. I can usually get what I need from a quick Windows System Information screenshot, and I will walk you through finding it. The odd machine with an unusual drive size that needs an adapter gets sorted up front too.
I order the right drive once it is chosen. Hardware is billed on top of the service, and you\’ll know the number before anything is ordered.
The new drive goes in, and the inside of the machine gets a quick hardware clean while it\’s open.
Everything moves over: your files, your programs, your settings, right where you left them. Very large or very old drives take longer, and you\’ll get an honest time estimate up front.
Clicking sounds, vanishing files, crashes out of nowhere: drives give warnings before they go. A struggling drive is best handled as a take-away so the transfer can run as long as it needs.
Drive Swap is $300 plus the cost of the new drive. If your computer feels slow, this is the upgrade to ask about first.
