Recommendations for Upgrading

I purchased a W520 last year around this time.
Have been very happy with it so far. I am at that point now where I am looking for more.
What is the first upgrade I should do?
I have...
- 8GB of ram
-160 GB SSD it came with (thinking about upgrading here)
- i7 2760
-windows 7 pro
I have never cloned hard drives before is it hard?
Thanks

The W520 is a relatively new model. (Certain users would rather hang on to it than upgrading to the latest W530.) That means all the components cannot be considered "out of date." The main bay, in particular, supports SATA 6Gbit/s or, as certain people put it, SATA III.
Your 160GB SSD, which I suppose to be Intel, supports SATA 3Gbit/s. You may want to upgrade to a SSD of higher storage capacity and, most likely, the new SSD supports SATA 6Gbit/s although I doubt the increase in transfer speed will bring any perceptible improvements.
I'd recommend bumping the RAM up to 16GB total. Although your applications might not need all of it, Windows SuperFetch can take full advantage of the available RAM.
Cloning? Use Acronis True Image, for example. Very easy.

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