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HDD to SSD upgrade on Lenovo Laptop

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I have a Lenovo G50–70 laptop which came with a 1TB Toshiba HDD. But unfortunately after 6 years of use the HDD developed a lot of bad sectors. The situation became so bad that the installed operating system Windows10 started to crash. I could not understand the problem first. Tried to repair windows, reinstalled it. But nothing worked. After few days of usage again the OS would crash. Then I noticed in one of the disk checking utilities that there were a lot of bad sectors shown. So I did some search on internet and concluded that there is no way to repair the bad sectors and if the number of bad sectors is growing then ultimately the HDD will die. It was time to invest in a new HDD. But this time I was already thinking of a SSD instead of a mechanical HDD due to great performance benefits which you get from SSD. Additionally SSDs are more reliable. You can move your laptop which the disk is working without any problems. Such an activity in a HDD may result in problem wi