ULTIMATE SSD Upgrade Guide - So Easy a Zombie Can Do It!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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941 words · ~4 min read
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now everyone can benefit from the speed and reliability of an SSD but not
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everyone is comfortable opening up their pc to perform upgrades so
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we challenged ourselves to create an SSD
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upgrade guide that is so easy to follow along with that even a zombie could do
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it but how do you test such a concept well
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we could only think of one way we had some great luck though
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and we were able to dig up the perfect assistant i'd love for you guys to
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welcome my great great great great great great great uncle jim to our SSD upgrade
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guide however he's a little bit on the old
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side so you'll have to be patient he's still working on the first steps
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of the guide
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come on that was funny man oh hold on can someone give us a hand
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here jim's falling now that we've got jim somewhat stabilized over here it's
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time to begin so like all pc upgrades or repairs it starts with gathering all the
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tools you need at a safe clean workstation so first up
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a multi-bit screwdriver second up is a
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grounding strap no no it's okay not that kind of ground
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we're not gonna put you back in there jim so here i'm just gonna put this on
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your wrist there we go that keeps your hardware
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safe from static electricity now if you'll just what the heck where's my
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phillips head hold on i'll be right back
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hey look at that i found it all right so now that we have the appropriate
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screwdriver bit we can go ahead and remove the screws from the side panel
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here you go you'll need that and take the side panels off once we're inside
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the case we can find the existing hard drive which is handy because it'll show
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you where the drives mount in your case and give you a point of reference for
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where the new drive is going to go you can also follow the connectors back to
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find out where they come from use four small screws they're going to
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be included with your case here you're going to need this too to mount the SSD
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onto a drive sled or however the mounting system works in your pc plug
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your SATA data and power connectors in then you can close up the side panels
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and boot the pc just like normal go ahead and press that power button jim
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thank you very much once you're at the Windows desktop you
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can go ahead and run the acronis cloning software that's included with your adata
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sp920ssd and basically it's a waiting game i
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would recommend here can you grab that again i would recommend before you start
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clearing any extra files off of your hard drive so that while you're waiting
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for them to transfer you don't get bored to
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i'm deaf
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oh come on that wasn't that bad give it a rest
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in peace
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you know jim you are doing absolutely fantastic you waited for the drive to
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clone and you didn't eat any brains at all
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great job all right so now that the cloning process is done you're going to
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want to enter the UEFI BIOS and reconfigure your SSD as your first boot
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device because otherwise you could boot up your computer you
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could boot up your computer and you wouldn't even be able to tell the
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difference between those two drives because the data on them the os and
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everything the programs are exactly the same i mean you'd be able to tell the
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difference because one is of course much much faster now
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once you've done that and booted up into Windows you can decide what to do with
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that old hard drive you could give it to a friend in need for example
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you don't have too many friends do you or you could use it as a storage drive
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so you can put your favorite music on it like monster match
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your favorite shows like walking dead and your favorite movie is like shawn of
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the dead the zombies even kind of win in that one don't they yeah
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yeah okay well um
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yeah okay you know what i think that's it i think
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we're pretty much done it's booted up you got your SSD in there you rocked it
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man great job
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so there you have it folks ah a successful experiment i guess we learned
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a few things number one a zombie can indeed install an SSD with the right
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guidance number two aforementioned zombie can become enraged and turn
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violent and number three is contrary to what we thought before starting this uh
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process here you are not allowed to dig up the corpses even of your very close
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relatives so we will bear that in mind for next time uh in
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the meantime guys like this video if you disliked it or liked it if you liked it
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dislike it if you disliked it uh give it a share if you think other people need
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to know how simple it is to install an SSD but in the meantime guys we gotta go
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so peace out don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips and uh
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our thanks to adata for providing their sp 920 SSD for this guide it's fast
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affordable and apparently tastes like brains
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you