Anyone techie, or others who've done it and know it -
I'm considering changing my laptop hard drive to a solid state drive. Assuming I get one that's equal to or higher in size to my current one, and ensuring that it is technically equivalent - what happens once you swap them over? I've seen a video on the Kingston site where they just unscrew a cover, slide one out and put the other in, but there's not much more detail.
Any info and tips? Thanks  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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if your just swapping drives over you have to consider an operating system,and all your files and programs.this can be done by cloning to another hdd,very time consuming. |
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By *ynxMan
over a year ago
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I'm a techie haha work in IT etc depending on the model laptop you got replacing the hard drive is easy can be just take off a cover and pull it out. Worst case it could mean taking apart the whole laptop just to get at the hard drive which happened to me when a friend give me her laptop to fix.
The SD will give your laptop a serious performance boost without a doubt the speed difference is amazing you will definally notice it from boot times to loading
programs. The next issue you have is space how big of an SSD do you need just depends on how many files you got etc.
When switching to an SSD I would recommend reinstalling the OS so you have a fresh clean start now doing this on the sd is fine it's just a matter off pulling off your old data from the old hard drive for me it's easy but time consuming but it's the question do you have the means to pull off the old data with say a hard drive Caddy or would you need to pull the data off first which is the question you got to ask yourself.
If you got any more questions or need help just pm me and I'll be happy to explain anything you need to know |
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By *ynxMan
over a year ago
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Sorry to add onto this I'm also living in Wolves so if you needed I could always come to you and do it for you or if you need to come to me.
Reason my location has changed atm is im back home for a small break |
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Agree with Tynx.
Get all your data off onto another media and install OS from fresh.
Also keep old HDD safe somewhere so can always swap back if need be.
Also if looking at bargain SSD find a performance review some are cheap because they are slow.
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Thanks everyone for your tips and advice - as well as offers to help. I dont have an os disk, but could probably get one from a relative who works in IT. Im thinking of swapping as my laptop is really noisy. The performance boost would be nice too - its just a year old with 6 Gig of ram and win 7 and I think an i3 processor of some speed. So not too out of date or low powered. Being of a sensitive disposition the noise drives me insane sometimes. Im guessing a drive is around £125, and would check for speed, as dont want crap parts used. So still cheaper than a new solid state drive laptop. The point you all make is the time to copy my files onto the new one - if I want them. Im wondering if I really need them - I have some programmes but could probably just reinstall. I could probably just leave the rest on the old one. The operating system is going to be time consuming I think. Years ago I reinstalled Xp and it took me ages. Am I right to think the programmes could just be copied over, rather than getting them installed again? That may save a little time. Ive had a lot of headaches from the noise from it, hence my desire to change it and assuming it is say £500 for a decent basic solid state drive laptop, so just a new drive is fair bit cheaper. Im happy to save a few hundred quid for a few hours of my time. But the only thing roughly costed is the drive to add in, so I may be out? Thanks again |
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In terms of installed software, many bits of software you buy use an activation key, and the best way is to build the operating system, and then download the software again and let it run its installer.
Copying software by hand is difficult, as you will be sure to miss registry entries and other files scattered around the old hard disk.
Installing Windows 7 from scratch should be about an hour, and then another hour or two getting all the updates installed. If you have a good IT friend you might be lucky that they have a MSDN copy of Windows 7 with most of the large patches applied which will save some time.
Sounds like you do not do a lot of video stuff so probably no need for a massive SSB, but a 250GB sized drive should be plenty and something like the SanDisk SDSSDXPS-240G-G25 240GB Extreme PRO SATA III 2.5 Inch Internal SSD which is in the online shops for £125 looks a good deal to reduce noise.
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