Killer Laptop for $282! HP 14-an013nr - Upgrade the SSD and RAM And You're Good to Go!

Great laptop for not a lot of dough- the built-in 32GB HDD is a bust but this laptop will allow you to install a new SSD to give you more storage. Might as well upgrade the RAM from 4-8GB as well while you are in there.

First things first - make sure you read the documentation and follow the process to create recovery media that you can use to compeltely reinstall the laptop back to factory settings should you need to do that. If you follow what I show you in the video and you don't have this recovery media you will not be able to get the laptop back to the factory OS. HP includes a 'recovery partition' on the built in 32GB drive that contains the Windows 10 installer files, etc... and you need to create media (like a bootable USB key) to recover should you want to do that. Page 68 of the manual tells you how to do that here: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05227925

So, here are the components I purchased for this build:

Laptop ($199 Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01F4ZG68A/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Crucial 16GB RAM set ($80 for 2 DIMM"s - 1 for each computer I bought - if you only have 1 laptop you only need 1 DIMM...don't buy 2): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007B5S52C/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Kingston 120GB SSD ($35 on Amazon - you can pick your size - I only needed 120GB but I've seen others do builds with 240GB drives. I don't know the maximum size that this BIOS will see - it might be in the manual link above) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A1ZTZOG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Drive Caddy Tray ($8 Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0177AF7OO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Heres the software I use to create a bootable USB key from the Windows 10 ISO image file: http://wudt.codeplex.com/

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