With the standard hard drive, the laptop booted in 54.59 seconds and shut down in 17.94 seconds. With the SSD in place, it took 38.71 seconds to start up and 13 seconds to shut down.

Fortunately, they’re cheap; Newegg, for example, has the Rosewill RCW-616 Laptop 2.5″ to Desktop 3.5″ IDE Hard Drive Adapter Converter for just $4.99 shipped.

Assuming your laptop currently has a standard hard drive, it is almost certainly a 2.5 Inch SATA drive. So, you will be replacing it with an SSD of the same size and interface (internal connections).

Assuming your laptop currently has a standard hard drive, it is almost certainly a 2.5 Inch SATA drive. So, you will be replacing it with an SSD of the same size and interface (internal connections).

Adding another internal hard drive to your desktop computer isn't difficult, but a notebook is a whole other ball of wax.Still, blogger Fewt details how he got the job done and came out the other ...

Step 2: If your laptop has a hard drive, or older 2.5-inch SATA SSD, you should see it locked in place with a few screws and a pair of cables. Remove all of those before gently pulling the drive free.