#272 - Q&A: Notebook SSD Upgrade/Installation

[kledder2]

2:14 I like this equation :).

[MindSeeR666]

I wish I had an SSD like this to replace my 500GB HDD :p.. I built my PC just for gaming and my laptop for college work and socializing :p

[Destroysall]

What about drivers and whatnot? Do you still have to install those? Also, how does Windows install work? Do you have to install a brand new copy of Windows or can you just call them for a new liscense?

[12344richard]

hello i'm wanting to upgrade my laptop cpu my model is hp 6910p whats the fastiest cpu i can upgrade to thanks

[AnimeEpic]

hey i have a question. does ssd, compatible for every notebook? i mean modern types i have sony vaio vpceb3m1e. im planning to convert its drive to ssd. great vid btw.

[okandeb]

@AnimeEpic yeah i am wondering this.I think there is one importing thing... INCHES! inches must be the same.

[Snowwie88]

Watching at 2:20 it seems the SSD is not fitting your notebook, since the panel is somewhat bulging. Or you didn't screw it back correctly.

[daro2096]

That drive costs between £260 to £300. When are SSD's going to have a more reasonable price?

[AndyThePlayer99]

wats the name of the program you use to test the cpu?

[vassilischr]

That drive costs 833,35 € !!! I could buy a new notebook with that money...

[MultiDiggs]

he sounds like the news man...

[jayza22]

carefully replace it back in?...U just shuved the hardrive in roflmao >_<

[guicapone2]

what's the point of the big smart card bay??? i thought we could simple install it there without removing the bigger drive from the back

[2at8er]

Wow that SSD totally pwned the older HDD. But that SSD is hell expensive.

[cisco760ca]

lol thats ssd is worth more than the laptop itself.

[bvjorge]

This was perfect for me because i hace a hp pavillion dv9000

[daand12]

Is the wd 3200bevt à sata II i Will get this drive this week . I have also this drive As external but i works in my Sata I laptop

[Perazzi11]

i want to get that but that drive is $799 shit i will build a comp for that

[barricaspt]

lol thats basically my notebook excluding the battery and the model number

[HybridPineapple]

Does sata 2 work with sata laptops?

[USAFFountain]

speeds dont work with SATA I, but the cable is backwards compatible.

[cjgan80]

@HybridPineapple Their practically the same connection 

[hoohuser77]

windows 7!!! i saw it! i love windows 7. it kills vista anyday.

[PCMichiana]

Best part of the video is the comparisons of the HDD to SSDs - also he was completely thorough on the installation.

[koenie12345]

HELLOAGAINIMRODNEYREYNALDS

[RocoV08]

win

[lolwut3213]

hm.. i thought it was spelled with an o.

[Lvaneede]

I want that SSD, but they are too expensive

[b00353]

wow those SSD's are very fast indeed I must get one for my next build in 2010

[legendray2008]

I can use 2 HDD's with 7200 RPM and 1TB

worth of space in Raid0

& still get a really good performance and storage .

But most importantly save some cash baby .

[pirtea]

not the same performance baby but good enough :D

[bastec666]

Grounding NEVER affects computer making. I've built countless PC's on carpet without grounding myself and never had a short in any of my products. Granted, some would rather be safe then sorry, but to me, there is no such thing as static.

[Niosus]

it's just in case. Static electricity can destroy your CPU. The little lightning is enough to trash a complete PC. (worst case)

[bigfellaandy]

lol, no such thing as static? are you for real?

Personally, i don't ground myself, but i always would advise people to ground theirself, even if theys a small chance of getting static built up in your body and damaging a componant, they is stilll a chance of it happening, so better to ground yourself, simply by touching a metal part of your computer case if you have moved.

[bastec666]

""but to me, there is no such thing as static. ""

please read next time.

[RaiScapeCannel]

My sis has that notebook, with windows 7 aswel ... shame theres no SSD too tho :P

[bicostp]

It's also a good idea at that point to buy an external USB enclosure for your laptop's stock hard drive (assuming the drive still works). It will simplify the process of transferring all your files to the new SSD, and it will leave you with a perfectly good external drive for extra storage or backups.

[KillerFirefly7]

£450 in the UK.

I guess i won't be getting one for a while : (

[ModeloIbarra]

Rodney, you should just mail me that SSD instead of installing it in that notebook.

[BangBoyxD]

He uses it, you can see it in the background of some of his videos and obviously it was his so he was just showing you how to do it.

[nightcrawler2099]

What program were you using to monitor your harddrive?

[Jiraya12345]

I believe that's HDTune

Another good one for hard drives (especially SSDs) is the ATTO benchmark (google it)

[SonsOfHateSphere]

Thanks for the video, Rodney. You're best!

[Kyleidge]

-1.0% CPU usage?!?!

[ikcti]

I want a SSD :)

[dcyli]

Sub-FREAKIN'-scribed!

[Morecake2]

Nice Vid. Is it possible to re-write an image of the old drive to the SSD, without needing any tweaks?

[jyrma]

You could try CloneZilla.

Also you can do it manually. You should clone your partition table with Gparted/fdisk to your new drive and then clone your partitions + mbr. Assuming that your old HDD's capacity <= the capacity of your SSD.

If you resized your C: partition, Windows might not boot. Then boot your PC with Windows CD and execute fixmbr. Works with XP and Vista.

[Morecake2]

I was going to use Acronis but thanks for the information. The fixmbr command looks very useful. Thanks!

[chungman212]

I love how he says hard drive :)

[psycopyro001]

I really liked the how to videos, please continue making them.

[Locke35]

Forget the un-boxing vids. I enjoyed this how-to video! How about some more, eh Rodney?

[enemy71]

wow thats plenty like 145mb/s more

[jmoyet]

wow! i need a major upgrade on my desktop.. im getting around 30MB-40MB/s on my hdd's..

[dogdevil94life]

good guide

[UnN4m3DD]

Wow dude that SSD is sick!

[dmglouis]

Is there a way to transfer the existing drive's contents to the new one? Would copy and paste be enough to transfer the entire OS to the new drive?

Also, what if there are partitions on the current drive? Is there a way to duplicate everything, partitions, boot loaders, and all, so it works on the new drive?

[ipullstuffapart]

not that i know of but there are ways, it is very difficult to copy your whole OS as in windows there is a lot of hidden files and folders i would say plug both your old one and the ssd into your pc install windows onto it and then copy your documents over to it, then install it in the laptop and turn it on this should work ive done it before with no problem

[thornygravy]

Fantastic in depth Q&A, Rodney does it again!

[xoANONiMUSox]

windows 7 can boot up in 11 seconds with quad-core i7 and an SSD drive

thats called speed

[ipullstuffapart]

hmmm

windows 7 boot time on mine

4 256gb crucil ssd's (the 1's here) in raid0

i7 extreme

4.2 seconds

[psycopyro001]

cause you can soo measure the boot up time down to .2 of a second accurately by looking at the screen.

[jjamendoza]

No Joke? Can I see videos of it booting up that fast? I cannot imagine how fast that is.

[shadoskill]

whoo thats the laptop i have lol

[highcastoroil]

holy crap, that looks like a big boost compared to the old one....omg faster loading of programs/games and faster defragmenting woot :p

[llNEMESIS]

just a quick question,

how do you install the OS? most laptops, if not all have a partition on the HDD that came with it and u can have a clean install basically with that partition. it has all the programs, including the OS, that came with it when u bought it.

thanx.

[bluebutdude1]

How much does this drive cost?

[laxstar21]

man if it wasn't like a $600 upgrade, I'd be all over this.

[hahaha10001]

HOLY SHIT!

so will mirrors edge install faster with an SSD?

[TonkatrainHONKHONK]

If you are doing it from a download or a DVD no. If you have the installation files on the computer yes. However loading and stuttering in game will be far better with an SSD.

[GsKillz818]

Wow, I was shocked to the the performance boost. Great video.

[Santiagosony]

wow, thats speed!!!!

[cusinndzl]

Nice video.

[DominusDominatus]

SSD HDD's are an improvement over mechanical HDD's in use today - however - SSD Drives are not good for long term storage i.e many many years as they are based on NAND Flash. This tech only has a certain number of write and delete cycles and along the way there is a higher risk of data corruption and loss due to the breakdown of the "memory cells or grids". It comes down to a trade off - the SSD drives are better for professional/work related laptop users due to lower pwer consumption and speed.

[madjimms]

Mechanical HDD's fail usually after 5+ years but some will last longer.. I would say they are BETTER for long term storage..... As long as you don't read/write 24/7 they should (& will) last for about 5 years or longer if used lightly.

[DominusDominatus]

You're right. It also depends on the quality and manufacturer. Lower end drives will fail at a dramatically higher rate than those of higher end manufacturers. I personally would never store data that I value on an SSD HDD, I would use an SSD HDD as a working platform and backup staright away to an HDD. It is better to have HDD's set up in RAID so that if one drive fail, you will have the data secure on another drive.

[pokerface3699]

you just say, "SSD" not "SSD HDD" because a HDD is different

[DominusDominatus]

Sorry, force of habit. I stand corrected.

[madjimms]

As long as you keep track of how often you put heavy loads on your SSD than storing important data shouldn't concern you. Just my opinion, but you seem almost biased on the subject....

A HDD can go bad without using it, same with a SSD......

No long term data is available yet, but I am 90% sure that SSD's will become dominant within the next 5 years & totally phase out mechanical drives that can be easily erased with neodymium magnets... or solar flares(in the rare event)

[AirForce194]

Its just called an SSD, a HDD is Hard Disk Drive.

[gasdacia]

You can't really call them "SSD HDDs" as they don't have an actual "hard disk" in them :P

[Un1234l]

Google up AnandTech's review on Intel's X25-M. Dated, but after reading that you will see the pros of SSDs outweigh the cons.

[poopguypenis2]

They're just too expensive ATM.

[tomato098]

Wow the viedeo quality shocked me lol amazing for youtube

[legendray2008]

OMG just OMG !!

[KingBennon]

Wow I didn't think the SSD was going to be that big of a increase.

Nice reviews GameMan

[piez07]

bro..what that SSD coz you?

[hodenriss]

what? speak common please.

[ChunkyMilkification]

woooooh 256 gig ssd=big money lolz

[JustinR19]

Rodney is THE MAN!

[jdwn67]

"Solid state drives are senstive electrical devices"

Wahh you drop these things and they don't die how is that senstive?

[nathanlevrier]

its means to static

[standalonefighter]

he means if you touch a contact on the hard drive, static electricity can kill it.

[otterboxiphone]

pee on it and it will die

[5assedmonkey]

Sensetive as in you shouldn't drop it on purpose.

[Totenhosen17]

sensitive as in static electricity. SSDs dont mind being dropped, but dont do it on purpose. :P

[steamzk8ta]

nice

[scottycatman]

"Put the SSD in carefully" looks like you just slam it right in there haha.

[ChedWick05]

18ms to 0.2ms is insane. Once I'm outa college and can afford to upgrade my PC again I'm definitely going with a solid state hard drive.

[MageThief]

Nice one

[iOWNu1111]

block those fuckeeeers!

[bitchslapper12]

Who gives a fuck about what number your comment are!

[killenkallasjohan]

I was thinking the same thing, silly really :P

[steamzk8ta]

people in here are dicks (it happened* to me 2)

[jakegwilliam]

Great tut