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There are very few things more irritating than a slow machine when you are trying to put in productive work. The good news is that most laptops can easily be sped up with a little upgrade.
By increasing your RAM and upgrading to a solid state drive (SSD), you can turn your slow laptop into a fast machine that is a pleasure to work on again.
Ideally you should have 16GB of RAM and a Solid State Drive as your primary drive, if you need cheaper storage space for files consider adding an additional drive (if you do not have a slot but have a CD/DVD Drive that you do not use, you can replace it with a Hard Drive Caddy enabling you to add an additional drive). If you do not have a second drive bay, nor a CD/DVD drive, you would need to consider either a bigger SDD that can fit your files too, or using an external drive for storage or files you don’t work on frequently.
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RAM
Your operating system and programs use RAM simply to run, before you start doing anything.
Just starting up your computer can use anything up to 4GB of your RAM before you even start working, your internet browser can easily use another few GB’s, so if you are operating on anything less than 6GB, you probably don’t have much RAM for the programs you are working in and your machine will constantly be trying to write RAM cache to your Hard Drive, and then read it back from there.
This process alone slows down the machine, and it is even slowed down more if you are not using a fast hard drive or a solid state drive.
Some RAM options available in our store:
![32GB Crucial 3200MHz DDR4 Dual Rank SODIMM Notebook Memory](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CT32G4SFD832A_wr_01a-300x300.jpg)
32GB Crucial 3200MHz DDR4 Dual Rank SODIMM Notebook Memory
![32GB Micron 3200Mhz DDR4 RDIMM](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MTA36ASF4G72PZ-3G2R1R_wr_01-300x300.jpg)
32GB Micron 3200Mhz DDR4 RDIMM
![Kimtigo 16GB DDR4 2666Mhz Notebook Memory](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/KMKSAG8782666_wr_01-300x300.jpg)
Kimtigo 16GB DDR4 2666Mhz Notebook Memory
![Kimtigo 8GB DDR4 2666Mhz Notebook Memory](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/KMKS8G8682666_wr_01a-300x300.jpg)
Kimtigo 8GB DDR4 2666Mhz Notebook Memory
![Patriot Signature Line 4GB 1600MHz DDR3 Single Rank Desktop Memory](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/PSD34G160021-300x300.jpg)
Patriot Signature Line 4GB 1600MHz DDR3 Single Rank Desktop Memory
![16GB KIT(2X8GB) Geil Orion RGB 3200MHz DDR4 Desktop Gaming Memory – Grey](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GOSG416GB3200C16BDC_wr_01a-300x300.jpg)
![16GB KIT(2X8GB) Geil Orion RGB 3200MHz DDR4 Desktop Gaming Memory – Grey](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GOSG416GB3200C16BDC_wr_02a-300x300.jpg)
16GB KIT(2X8GB) Geil Orion RGB 3200MHz DDR4 Desktop Gaming Memory – Grey
![32B KIT(2X16GB) Geil Polaris RGB OC 6000MHz DDR5 Desktop Gaming Memory](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GOSG532GB6000C38BDC_wr_01a-300x300.jpg)
![32B KIT(2X16GB) Geil Polaris RGB OC 6000MHz DDR5 Desktop Gaming Memory](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GOSG532GB6000C38BDC_wr_02a-300x300.jpg)
32B KIT(2X16GB) Geil Polaris RGB OC 6000MHz DDR5 Desktop Gaming Memory
![16GB Kimtigo DDR4 3200Mhz Desktop Memory](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/KMKUAGF683200_wr_01a-300x300.jpg)
16GB Kimtigo DDR4 3200Mhz Desktop Memory
![8GB Patriot Signature Line 1600MHz DDR3 Single Rank Desktop Memory](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/PSD38G16002_wr_01b-300x300.jpg)
8GB Patriot Signature Line 1600MHz DDR3 Single Rank Desktop Memory
Storage Disk Drive
Your drive plays a big part in the performance of your computer as it has to read and write data from and to it constantly when you are working on the machine.
Drives have different speeds with 5200rpm and 7200rpm being your common Hard Disk Drive (HDD) speeds.
Solid State Drives (SSD) are not physical spinning disks but flash memory (like flash drives) and this makes them read and write much faster. They also have different speeds, but are all much faster than Hard Disk Drives.
As you drive fills up the performance is affected too, it is recommended that you don’t go over 90% full on a HDD and 75% full on a SSD. If you are running out of space, it is a good idea to either upgrade to a bigger drive, or look at external drives for data storage.
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Some SSD's available in our store:
![250GB Crucial MX500 2.5″ SATA 3D NAND SSD](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CT250MX500SSD1-2-300x300.jpg)
![250GB Crucial MX500 2.5″ SATA 3D NAND SSD](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CT250MX500SSD1-1-300x300.jpg)
250GB Crucial MX500 2.5″ SATA 3D NAND SSD
![240GB Crucial BX500 2.5″ SATA SSD](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CT240BX500SSD1_wr_01a-300x300.jpg)
![240GB Crucial BX500 2.5″ SATA SSD](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CT240BX500SSD1_wr_02-300x300.jpg)
240GB Crucial BX500 2.5″ SATA SSD
![1TB Crucial BX500 2.5″ SATA SSD](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CT1000BX500SSD1_wr_01a-300x300.jpg)
![1TB Crucial BX500 2.5″ SATA SSD](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CT1000BX500SSD1_wr_02-300x300.jpg)
1TB Crucial BX500 2.5″ SATA SSD
![500GB Crucial P3 M.2 NVMe 3D NAND SSD](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CT500P3SSD8_wr_01-300x300.jpg)
![500GB Crucial P3 M.2 NVMe 3D NAND SSD](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CT500P3SSD8_wr_02-300x300.jpg)
500GB Crucial P3 M.2 NVMe 3D NAND SSD
![1TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVMe 3D NAND SSD](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CT1000P3SSD8_wr_01-300x300.jpg)
![1TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVMe 3D NAND SSD](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CT1000P3SSD8_wr_02-300x300.jpg)
1TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVMe 3D NAND SSD
![500GB SPATIUM M371 NVMe M.2](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/M371M2NVME500GB_wr_01-300x300.jpg)
![500GB SPATIUM M371 NVMe M.2](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/M371M2NVME500GB_wr_02-300x300.jpg)
500GB SPATIUM M371 NVMe M.2
![1TB SPATIUM M460 M.2 NVME Gen 4](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/M460M2NVME1TB_wr_01a-300x300.jpg)
![1TB SPATIUM M460 M.2 NVME Gen 4](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/M460M2NVME1TB_wr_02a-300x300.jpg)
1TB SPATIUM M460 M.2 NVME Gen 4
![256GB Patriot P300 M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/P300P256GM28_wr_01-300x300.jpg)
![256GB Patriot P300 M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/P300P256GM28_wr_02-300x300.jpg)
256GB Patriot P300 M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
![Kimtigo 2.5″ SATA III SSD 128GB](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/K128S3A25KTA320_wr_01a-300x300.jpg)
![Kimtigo 2.5″ SATA III SSD 128GB](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/K128S3A25KTA320_wr_02a-300x300.jpg)
Kimtigo 2.5″ SATA III SSD 128GB
![Crucial T500 1TB M.2 NVMe Gen4 NAND SSD](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CT1000T500SSD8_wr_01-300x300.jpg)
![Crucial T500 1TB M.2 NVMe Gen4 NAND SSD](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CT1000T500SSD8_wr_02-300x300.jpg)
Crucial T500 1TB M.2 NVMe Gen4 NAND SSD
Drive caddy available in our store:
![Enclosure Dvd 12.7Mm To Ssd Caddy](https://www.huge.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BRA43-300x300.jpg)
Enclosure Dvd 12.7Mm To Ssd Caddy
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