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