Will a purchase of this external SSD work with my laptop?

[thailen]

2TB/1TB/500GB External Hard Drive Disk Portable Storage Devices 2.5'' Inch USB3.0 SATA HDD Storage High Speed

I have an HP Model 15-BS234WM, Windows 10 64-bit 500 GB HD

 

[mwroobel]

You didn’t link a specific drive, but if your laptop has a USB3 port then that drive/enclosure should work. Without more specific information on the device I can’t give a guarantee.

 

[thailen]

You didn’t link a specific drive, but if your laptop has a USB3 port then that drive/enclosure should work. Without more specific information on the device I can’t give a guarantee.

Here are the specs for my laptop. I'm pretty, cerain there isn't a USB3 port: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05987729

 

[Maxx]

You have 2 USB 3.1 ports, this is sufficient for any external drive.

 

[noxqzs]

I would purchase a larger internal SSD and swap it with the 5400rpm spinner that is currently in there. With Samsung clone software its easy to do and takes at most an hour or two, depending on how full your drive is. That will give you a noticeable boost all around.