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Firestarter wrote:I find that being barefoot and wearing a simple cotton t-shirt helps.
linda wrote:
Voldenuit wrote:Glad to help. It's a damn sight simpler than what I had to go through to install a 128 GB mSATA SSD in my wife's X230T!
My Johnson wrote:Wait. Are most SSD's 9mm? I will be doing a swap soon on a new pseudo ultrabook when I get paid. If it doesn't fit I can remove it from the case and install it?
Flying Fox wrote:My Johnson wrote:Wait. Are most SSD's 9mm? I will be doing a swap soon on a new pseudo ultrabook when I get paid. If it doesn't fit I can remove it from the case and install it?
The Samsung's are 7mm. You should watch that 3rd link then. But remember, once you remove the casing, you void the warranty. If you have not bought an SSD yet, this will be one attribute to look out for.
Flying Fox wrote:My Johnson wrote:Wait. Are most SSD's 9mm? I will be doing a swap soon on a new pseudo ultrabook when I get paid. If it doesn't fit I can remove it from the case and install it?
The Samsung's are 7mm. You should watch that 3rd link then. But remember, once you remove the casing, you void the warranty. If you have not bought an SSD yet, this will be one attribute to look out for.
Firestarter wrote:Flying Fox wrote:My Johnson wrote:Wait. Are most SSD's 9mm? I will be doing a swap soon on a new pseudo ultrabook when I get paid. If it doesn't fit I can remove it from the case and install it?
The Samsung's are 7mm. You should watch that 3rd link then. But remember, once you remove the casing, you void the warranty. If you have not bought an SSD yet, this will be one attribute to look out for.
Are you sure? IIRC, when you remove part of the casing to replace user serviceable parts, this should not void the warranty. I know that the inside of my Asus laptop has little stickers that say 'warranty void if removed', on things like the GPU/CPU cooler. But, replacing the RAM or HDD should be no problem at all and would not be grounds to void the warranty.
Flying Fox wrote:I was referring to the removal of the casing of the 9mm SSD to extract the PCB to reduce the thickness so it can fit into the ultrabook.
linda wrote:And if I mess up, does anyone live near South Jersey, US?
Voldenuit wrote:linda wrote:
Glad to help. It's a damn sight simpler than what I had to go through to install a 128 GB mSATA SSD in my wife's X230T!
linda wrote:Wow, I am so glad I asked. Lots of great tips and the videos will help. I don't think I'll be having a glass of wine while I do this, that's for sure. Like the one guy on the video said, it's like surgery. I'll let you all know how it goes... And if I mess up, does anyone live near South Jersey, US?
JohnC wrote:I mighy have missed that, but... You're replacing your original HDD with an SSD and will be restoring your OS onto SSD using backup image you made from HDD? If yes - you should probably do a fresh OS install instead, so Win7 can properly detect SSD and do a proper partition alignment as well as other things like enabling TRIM and disabling defragmentation, etc.
Forge wrote:JohnC wrote:I mighy have missed that, but... You're replacing your original HDD with an SSD and will be restoring your OS onto SSD using backup image you made from HDD? If yes - you should probably do a fresh OS install instead, so Win7 can properly detect SSD and do a proper partition alignment as well as other things like enabling TRIM and disabling defragmentation, etc.
Echoed for emphasis. I've done exactly this, moved my Windows 7 install from the stock 7mm 320GB in my X220 to a Samsung 830 256GB, and ended up reformatting and installing clean a few weeks later.
Also, when you copy your partitions or reinstall, leave the last 5GB or so unpartitioned. It helps the garbage collection/TRIM keep the drive fast.