now everyone can benefit from the speed and reliability of an SSD but not
everyone is comfortable opening up their pc to perform upgrades so
we challenged ourselves to create an SSD
upgrade guide that is so easy to follow along with that even a zombie could do
it but how do you test such a concept well
we could only think of one way we had some great luck though
and we were able to dig up the perfect assistant i'd love for you guys to
welcome my great great great great great great great uncle jim to our SSD upgrade
guide however he's a little bit on the old
side so you'll have to be patient he's still working on the first steps
of the guide
come on that was funny man oh hold on can someone give us a hand
here jim's falling now that we've got jim somewhat stabilized over here it's
time to begin so like all pc upgrades or repairs it starts with gathering all the
tools you need at a safe clean workstation so first up
a multi-bit screwdriver second up is a
grounding strap no no it's okay not that kind of ground
we're not gonna put you back in there jim so here i'm just gonna put this on
your wrist there we go that keeps your hardware
safe from static electricity now if you'll just what the heck where's my
phillips head hold on i'll be right back
hey look at that i found it all right so now that we have the appropriate
screwdriver bit we can go ahead and remove the screws from the side panel
here you go you'll need that and take the side panels off once we're inside
the case we can find the existing hard drive which is handy because it'll show
you where the drives mount in your case and give you a point of reference for
where the new drive is going to go you can also follow the connectors back to
find out where they come from use four small screws they're going to
be included with your case here you're going to need this too to mount the SSD
onto a drive sled or however the mounting system works in your pc plug
your SATA data and power connectors in then you can close up the side panels
and boot the pc just like normal go ahead and press that power button jim
thank you very much once you're at the Windows desktop you
can go ahead and run the acronis cloning software that's included with your adata
sp920ssd and basically it's a waiting game i
would recommend here can you grab that again i would recommend before you start
clearing any extra files off of your hard drive so that while you're waiting
for them to transfer you don't get bored to
i'm deaf
oh come on that wasn't that bad give it a rest
in peace
you know jim you are doing absolutely fantastic you waited for the drive to
clone and you didn't eat any brains at all
great job all right so now that the cloning process is done you're going to
want to enter the UEFI BIOS and reconfigure your SSD as your first boot
device because otherwise you could boot up your computer you
could boot up your computer and you wouldn't even be able to tell the
difference between those two drives because the data on them the os and
everything the programs are exactly the same i mean you'd be able to tell the
difference because one is of course much much faster now
once you've done that and booted up into Windows you can decide what to do with
that old hard drive you could give it to a friend in need for example
you don't have too many friends do you or you could use it as a storage drive
so you can put your favorite music on it like monster match
your favorite shows like walking dead and your favorite movie is like shawn of
the dead the zombies even kind of win in that one don't they yeah
yeah okay well um
yeah okay you know what i think that's it i think
we're pretty much done it's booted up you got your SSD in there you rocked it
man great job
so there you have it folks ah a successful experiment i guess we learned
a few things number one a zombie can indeed install an SSD with the right
guidance number two aforementioned zombie can become enraged and turn
violent and number three is contrary to what we thought before starting this uh
process here you are not allowed to dig up the corpses even of your very close
relatives so we will bear that in mind for next time uh in
the meantime guys like this video if you disliked it or liked it if you liked it
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to know how simple it is to install an SSD but in the meantime guys we gotta go
so peace out don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips and uh
our thanks to adata for providing their sp 920 SSD for this guide it's fast
affordable and apparently tastes like brains
you