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by nfriedly 488 days ago
I still do this for friends and family: put in an SSD and maybe add a bit of RAM.

Either, clone the OS or else do a fresh install. The old drive goes into a USB enclosure if it's a laptop.

It feels like a brand new computer, going from minutes to seconds to do anything.

(Going from a Raspberry Pi 4 on a MicroSD to a pi5 with an nvme drive is a similar night and day difference. The pi5 feels like a snappy modern computer. Previous pis always felt slow.)