“Switching out hard drive with SSD I want to switch out the hard drive on this laptop with an SSD. Can someone give an example of an SSD which is compatible with this? Something Best Buy sells or any other store. Also, if instructions are available for the switching out, that would be great.”
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Any modern solid state drive will work fine with this product. Only restriction is that it has to be 7mm thick, which is a standard in today's SSD, but just look for the thickness nonetheless in the SSD specifications. Youtube instructions for removal, its very simple, remove all screwed on the bottom and un-clip the bottom cover around all 4 edges, you will see the HDD immediately remove 2 screws attached to the drive cage and additional 4 screws on each side to remove the HDD entirely. Installation is reverse steps.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I replaced the slow 5000RPM drive that came with it with a Samsung - 850 EVO 500GB SSD drive I bought from Best Buy on sale for less than $200. The physical swap was easy. Instructions are available on YouTube. I had access to a drive cloning device so once it was duplicated I swapped it and it booted right up IN 14 SECONDS!!!!! If you don't have a disk duplicator you can use a 32GB or larger flash drive and the Microsoft Create USB Recovery utility and the backup utility to rebuild/restore your laptop after the drive replacement.
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