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 Hardware tends to break from time to time ;-) . This most often happens shortly after installation (< 1 month) or after the end of the average lifespan (e.g. > 5 years).
-=== hdd / ssd ===
+=== HDD / SSD ===
 Please remember that every hard drive/SSD will fail at some point and be prepared. Sometimes the data can still be read (then it's time for a final backup). But you can't rely on that.
 === Power supply ===
-You can simply replace a broken power supply with a new one. If you were very unlucky, the old power supply may have damaged other things like your motherboard or hard drives when it died. But that rarely happens.
+You can simply replace a broken power supply with a new one. If you have been very unlucky, the old power supply may have damaged other things like your motherboard or hard drives when it died. But that rarely happens.
 === Motherboard ===
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 In the simplest case it is enough to go to the UEFI boot selection. Your UEFI will then search for a suitable UEFI partition. And ideally finds the boot entry for the grub of manjaro.
+=== Upgrade ===
+Sometimes you want to improve your computer without replacing it entirely. If you do this carefully, Manjaro doesn't even need to be reinstalled.
+==== CPU ====
+Nothing to do.
+==== RAM ====
+Nothing to do.
+==== GPU ====
+Especially when changing vendor, please ask in manjaro forum for help with the right steps.
+==== HDD / SSD ====
+You can use Gparted to create a GPT and partitions on the SSD. You can then use btrfs to [[Btrfs#Extend_a_volume|add a partition]] to your existing volume.
+If you want to keep your “old” HDD/SSD and have enough space, you can even easily [[Btrfs#Btrfs_RAID|set up a RAID10]] .
 == Software ==