Drive upgrade for my E1 - 510 Acer Laptop and Does anyone know of a step instruction

LesW

Hi,

I have an old Acer Aspire E1-510 that I want to give to my Grandson for his schoolwork.

The reason it’s not used is it’s painfully slow but friends more knowledgable than I say that replacing the Hard Drive will significantly improve the performance.

I am thinking I will replace the original 500G HDD with a SSD drive.

My questions to the learned forum are as follows:

1 - Good idea?

2 - Considering the Model and current Spec could members recommend a drive that is compatible ?

3 - Does anyone know of a step instruction or video that takes you through the process ?

I have some IT knowledge as I used to repair desktops but that was 20 yrs ago so things have moved on.

Spec of Laptop

Model: Aspire E1-510

Processor : Intel Celeron N2820 2.39 GHz 1Mb L2 cache

HDD : 500 GB

Memory : 4 GB DDR3 L Memory

OS : Windows 10

All suggestions gratefully received

Les W

[Edited the thread to add issue detail]

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/698864/drive-upgrade-for-my-e1-510-acer-laptop-and-does-anyone-know-of-a-step-instruction

Yes, the 2.5: Sata-3 Samsung 870 EVO V_NAND would be ideal, the 1TB drive is for sale on Amazon for $80.
https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Inch-Internal-MZ-77E1T0B-AM/dp/B08QBJ2YMG?th=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckeepnx0cc4

LesW

Hi Puraw, thanks for the input , much appreciated

LesW

This kind of a follow up question. As mentioned earlier it’s been some years since I dabbled with computers and thinks may have changed.

The question is my new SSD will obviously be blank. What’s the best way to take an image of my existing drive and copy it to the new desk. In truth the main thing would be the operations system (Win 11). I think I have install discs for others stuff.