[SOLVED] Upgrade SCSI HDD to a SATA SSD on Dell Inspiron 15 3542 ?

[cjkfox]

I have an old (2014) Inspiron 3542 laptop. Purchased as a prebuilt I have upgraded this to Win 10, but it runs very slowly

The HDD is a 1TB Seagate ST1000LM024 SCSI
I would like to replace this with a SATA SSD to improve speed.
Laptop has 8GB of 1600 DDR3L RAM

Processor is i5-4210U @ 1.7 GHz
I found the specifications at Dell, and this shows a SATA 6Gbps for hard drive.

Can I replace the SCSI drive with a SATA SSD ?
Would replacing the RAM help?
note: I tend to run computers and electronics until they die. I would prefer to fix instead of replacing the laptop.

 

[rgd1101]

1TB Seagate ST1000LM024 is a sata hdd
but yes, you can change it to a ssd

laptop max 8gb ram
https://dl.dell.com/manuals/all-pro...iron-15-3542-laptop_reference guide_en-us.pdf

 

[fzabkar]

I'm running a Win 10 OS on a 15-year-old 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo motherboard. I mostly use it for Internet browsing and email. After replacing the 160GB HDD with a 1TB SSD, the difference was remarkable.