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to learn more now I often get asked by people uh how much storage should I get

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for my computer whether it's an SSD or whether it's a hard drive and the answer

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invariably is I don't know how am I supposed to know how much storage you

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need I can't however what I can tell you

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is that for me personally 120 or 128

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gigs which is the SSD size that you'll find in a lot of uh more entry-level

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machines these days is really not enough for me I find that 256 or 240 gig class

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drives are The Sweet Spot in terms of a

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price to capacity ratio and if you can go higher and you can still fit that in

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your budget then great Now Intel sent over this xps2 Ultra Book which I kind

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of fired up and I was like oh it's got Core i5 okay cool it's got you know nice

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IPS 19 20 by 8 1080 or whatever it is

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that 1080p thing screen um oh it's got a

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120 gig SSD so the first thing I did was I was like oh crap can I take it apart

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and the answer is yes um it doesn't take a 2 and 1 12 inch SSD it takes an MSA

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SSD so this is I think the first time we've really talked about MSA online as

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Tech tips what it is is it's a smaller SATA standard so it's still just as fast

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as a regular SATA drive in most cases it still uses the SATA inter interface so

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it's not like a PCI Express based one or anything like that but what it is is

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it's super small so all the flash chips are integrated onto a tiny little PCB

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and the controller on there and these this little custom connector here that

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doesn't have any housings around it is just a SATA interface with no housings

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around it and moved around a little bit so what we're going to do is we're going to walk you through the steps of

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upgrading the SSD in your notebook it's really important to find out from the

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manufacturer what type of drive your model accepts whether it's a 9mm 2 and

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1/2 in drive a 7 mm 2 1/2 in drive a 5

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mil 2 and 1/2 in drive or even an MSA or even a proprietary standard like for

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example Apple's recent notebooks are often using soldered ssds that are right

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on the motherboard so you can't replace them at all and then work from that

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knowledge so without further Ado here's my MSA SSD upgrade on the D xps2

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relaying two shot one take two so the first step is really more of a before

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you begin type thing so here's that uh

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here's that drive that I was talking about before because we're using MSA

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it's a little bit inconvenient for data migration because we can't just use one

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of these handy dandy USB TOA interface cables to just clone the drive before we

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even do the transfer um so what we'll have to do is we'll have to actually

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back up everything that's on here the good news is because it's a factory load

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out um there's not that much data on there so you can actually back up to an

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external hard drive or even a large USB key if you happen to have one then you

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can manually transfer everything back over to the new MSA Drive once you are

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done so you just got to figure out a workflow for yourself if you're not using MSA though it is quite a bit

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easier we're using Paragon software for the backup and the restore step two is

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to make sure you have a nice safe anti-static workstation in our case

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we're using a modm main board from Mod right and we're using the

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iFixit screwdriver kit with a Torx five

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bit on the end of the screwdriver to get this baby open so step one is to locate

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all of the screws and after removing them put them

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in a safe place such as a small plastic

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container like the one that happens to be included with your drive haha look

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how that worked

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out once you've removed all the screws

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carefully lift up the bottom cover never Force anything remember guys that there

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are ports around the outside edges that might stick through the chassis so you

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don't want to put unnecessary strain on those now that we've got her opened up

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we can take a moment to just admire the uh the workmanship that goes into a

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modern Ultrabook so you can see like more than half of the Interior is taken

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up by the massive battery which is actually it looks like you could

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probably swap it out if you really needed to which is kind of cool um I

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also like that Dell made it relatively easy to remove this shell so they did

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put crappy torque screws in it but they didn't make it like you know clipped in

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or anything like that so you can actually remove it and put it back on without it looking like garbage after uh

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you can see the cooling fan for the CPU right here this uses onboard Graphics uh

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this is the main motherboard right here where you've got your RAM soldered on um

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so it's four gigs of RAM in this machine by default uh the fourth gen one comes

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with 8 gigs by default and then there's actually a little daughter board over here that has some IO so they were able

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to to get this over here uh right here is your wireless which you can see is

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plugged into the antennas which go up here and then probably around the

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outside of something um you want you want you want those to be nice and big

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and then uh here is our M SATA drive

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that we're going to be replacing so all we got to do is peel up this little

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cover right here all right and we see

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that it is held in by one simple screw now you can see once you remove the

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screw that the M SATA drive actually

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lifts itself this is okay this is a function of the slot here that it's

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supposed to do that which makes it very very easy to carefully so you can see

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whatever's in here right now is an oem part number from Samsung so you can uh

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see the Samsung flash modules on there

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as well as uh I'm not too worried about the warranty on this thing so let's just

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go ahead and find out what kind of controller it's using probably Samsung

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Samsung is the world's number one SSD manufacturer not just for their own

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drives but also for other drives so there's a Samsung dram chip right there

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and then a Samsung presumably yep Samsung controller right there so this

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is a Samsung SS s so now that we have both ssds you can see that they actually

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use very similar configurations cuz there's only so much space on an M PCB

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and you have to put four flash chips so here we can flip over the ad dat one

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there you go so you're going to have to fit four flash chips your controller as

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well as your cache so there's only so many options in terms of layout so

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installation is simple we've install it the same way that we took it out so you

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actually go in at an angle Fold It Down flat

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find that Phillips head screw which is different from all the others remember

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anytime you're disassembling a notebook unless screws are like markedly

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different from each other and you're not going very far into it you're going to

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want to keep all the different types of screws labeled and separate from each

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other then we're going to lay this back on top of

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it and that is it the physical aspect of

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the upgrade is done so as long as our data migration worked we're good to go

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now that we're done we can admire the sexy interior which unfortunately isn't

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as sexy as the insides of Apple's notebooks they do such a good job like

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opening up a Macbook you're just like oh yeah they they put some thought into

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that um I mean this ain't bad either but anyway we're going to go ahead put the

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cover back on screw everything back into place with our torque screwdriver again

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and that's that's that's kind of

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it so there you go guys I hope this was informative I've actually done notebook

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storage upgrades before but I've never done one with an M SATA drive so there

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there you go it's pretty much the same procedure but slightly more different

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