A technician is tasked with upgrading the storage device in a laptop to shorten the operating system's load time and improve overall application responsiveness. The current drive is a traditional spinning hard disk with moderate data-access speeds. Which of the following replacement options would BEST meet the user's requirements?
Replace the current drive with a faster 7200 RPM hard disk.
Use a hybrid drive that includes embedded flash memory (SSHD).
Purchase a subscription for additional cloud-based storage capacity.
Installing a solid-state drive (SSD) is the best way to improve boot and application performance. Because SSDs have no moving parts, they deliver dramatically lower latency and much higher sustained read/write speeds than any mechanical drive, including 7200 RPM models or hybrid drives that cache only a small amount of data. Faster-spinning or hybrid disks offer incremental gains, and additional cloud storage has no effect on local system startup or software launch times.
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