Not having had enough abuse from my new HP Pavilion dm1-4310ez, I decided to swap the original disk for an SSD. Then the real fun started with EFI booting.

This HP laptop had one, so I simply just removed it from the hard drive and attached it to the SSD. Go ahead and also install that metal casing on your SSD and secure with those four screws.

Note: Installing an SSD in your laptop is straightforward, but does run a slight risk of damaging components. Only proceed with the utmost care and read all instructions before doing so. How to ...

The Setup There are 3 things you’ll need to accomplish this. An SSD of sufficient size (at least the size of the used space on your existing drive) An external hard drive enclosure or dock ...

The 1TB HP EX950 scores the highest in the test for all flash-based SSD we've ever tested. The increase is just two points more than the previous generation and ADATA SX8200 Pro.

This HP laptop comes with both a 256GB SSD and a 1TB hard drive. I'm going to load it with a variety of Linux distributions and see how it works.

We test a new HP S750 SSD series, the rather properly volume sized 1024 GB (1 TB), model which we will review. The S750 series offers a compete range of good performing storage products, yet price ...

Our Verdict The 2TB HP EX950 has everything we could ask for from a consumer NVMe SSD. The drive delivers class leading performance and costs less than other 2TB models shipping today.