Expand Computer Storage to Get Better Performance

 It is usual that all computers at some point will experience slower speeds as programs, temporary files, software updates, internet downloads take so much space in the hard drive as well occupying the memory space. These main culprits always leave the biggest impact on the speed and performance of computers.  

Despite of freeing up the disk space your hard drive starts to act slowly after a few months and doesn’t really speed up the computers. But fortunately, there are few cost-effective and easy ways to upgrade your computers (laptop/desktop) to make them run faster. In such cases buying a hard disk online always helps for your computer.

 

Here are seven steps that can improve the computers speed and their overall performance.

Step 1: Add A Hard Drive To A Pc

 

Adding another hard drive inside the computer seems to be very simple. It can be your reserved perk. Usually, the desktop PCs come with extra 3.5-inch drive bays, you just have to mount the hard drive to the bay and connect it to the motherboard. But keep in mind some hard drives available in the market are not compatible with some of the systems so make sure the compatibility of secondary hard drives.

 

The computer performs faster and runs smoothly after installing a second hard drive. It improves the loading speeds, which may free up other system resources thus improving the overall speed.

Step 2: Add A Hard Drive To A Laptop

Not all the laptops come with extra drive bays and your only option is to swap the older hard drive with the new upgraded one. The prices of hard drives for laptops are much higher than the desktops one despite of their smaller size i.e. 2.5 inches bearing the same capacity as of desktop hard drives. Very few laptops with two internal hard drive bays exist but they are not very portable. Anyhow, a dedicated panel is given in some laptops on their bottom side to access the hard drives but its better to seek the professional hand to avoid the disassembly of the laptop.

External Hard Drive for Laptop

Step 3: Add A SSD

Adding a solid-state drive (SSD) can take most of the pressure off the processor and your computer performance boost up. If you tend to run a number of applications at one time or use heavy software like photo and video editing software, then this drive making these programs to run smoother and load faster.

 

SSDs can be used on both desktops and laptops.  When there is no option of using an internal SSD, you can purchase an external flash drive that connects to your system with a USB 3.0. It can give the extra push to the performance and very much effective for apps that need more memory space to run properly.

Step 4: Data Transfer

You can perform the data transfer by simply using a copying data method. Most of the hard drives and SSD comes with data transfer cable and software is provided to transfer from one drive to another in case you are replacing the older one with the upgraded one instead of mounting the additional drive. The other option is firstly to use your external drive for reinstalling windows and applications which also enables you to get rid of unwanted apps and files and let you save the space in a new drive.

Expand Storage with Hard Drive

Step 5: Choose An External Drive

If you are looking to increase the PC’s storage and not concerned about the portability than the USB Hard Drive adapter can be a better option. These come with a robust case and can be connected via USB. Different sizes are available for desktops and portable ones 3.5 and 2.5 inch respectively. USB 3.0 found to be much faster than USB 2.0 in terms of transferring files but you have to be sure which one is compatible with your system.

STEP 6: Use a NAS Drive

NAS drives can be used for the storage that can be connected to the home network. It allows the users to retrieve and store data from the centralized location. All the computers connected to the network can use the NAS drive and some NAS drives have features to access the handheld gadgets like smartphones and tablets.

 

NAS drives have the capacity of storing up to dozens of terabytes hence they are very convenient to install. 

Step 7: Cloud storage

Cloud Storage has brought the breakthrough in the traditional methods of storing files and accessing through the internet. It gives remote access to your files from anywhere to any device. Many big companies are offering free cloud storage facilities of up to 1000GB.