My mother’s laptop has been running as fast as a turtle on a snail going uphill for a long time now. Everything has been done to it, including formatting it and installing another, less cumbersome OS, but nothing improves. I have an HHD available, I have done some tests and it does work.

Would changing the hard drive do any good?

  • quinkin@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Is the hard drive failing and constantly blocking reads and writes? Maybe, check the SMART data.

    Is the cooler full of hair/fur/dust and clocking the CPU down? Maybe, look at the thermals etc.

    If you don’t diagnose issues you are just guessing and potentially wasting money replacing parts that are fine.