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I'm upgrading a Dell Vostro 14 laptop.

Replaced the extremely slow 1TB hard drive drive with a Samsung EVO 250GB SATA SSD. Doubled the memory from 8GB to 16GB by adding an additional 8GB memory module in the empty slot, so now it will benefit from dual-channel memory, too.

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e33io 1y ago

should be a great performance boost

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Matthew 1y ago

It was a big boost!

I think Windows 11 on a slow hard drive was nearly unusable. On top of that BitLocker encryption had been turned on, which I think gives another significant performance hit.

Now is much better with the SSD and BitLocker not enabled (on an SSD, it probably wouldn't make as noticeable of a difference).