You will not get the full benefit of the new hardware until you get rid of that crap hard drive. And JFYI Acer does not make hard drives. They may put a label on it, but it's made by someone else. Download Sandra and it will tell you everything you want to know about your computer. It will benchmark it and run it through it's paces. It will also tell you who makes the HDD http://www.techspot.com/downloads/160-sisoftware-sandra-lite.html