Thank you so much. Even if it looks like an ad for samsung 840 Pro. But in all honesty i am going to try this. God Bless. Keep making more videos where users are actually benefiting in reality.
I am actually still using a decade old laptop and i was just wondering if i could upgrade that with your suggested method. It's a Toshiba Satellite M645-S4110. Any suggestion/help would be of great help. I am not that tech savy either hence my confusion/question.
Dell D630 with Linux Mint and a HP EliteBook 8440p and doubt i'll upgrade them again, both have 256gb ssds and 8gb ram so not much else to change in them (maybe the wireless card but thats about it)
To the new techie's, an old trick to make sure your do not double thread the tiny screws is to 1 put the screw in the screw hole 2 using the hex screw driver slow rotate the screw driver Backwards like you are removing the screw 3 you should feel a slight snap from the screw and this means you have dropped the screw to the thread in the hole. 4 now you may drive the screw Forward and it should turn easily and screw in
Nicely Done. SSD's offer the following benefits for laptops over hdd's - runs cooler - uses less power which lets the battery last longer per charge , better shock resistance , are silent in operation , are lighter , has better reliability. Besides changing to an ssd - If you can adding more ram and faster ram to the maximum that the laptop can support. All of these upgrades will let you keep tha laptop even longer. I made both of the above cahnges to an older laptop that my mom had and it made the laptop run better then when it was new.
That sounds great. Also I don't like Windows 10 11 I'd like to stick to Windows 7. Is there anywhere you could recommend going where the bill to do all these upgrades for me
@@uhhuh8224 hold windows and press pause break and it will show if it has the same processor saying the same thing as he showed at the start and if it is then it is the same laptop
My dad has (what appears to be) the same laptop, except his has 8Gb of RAM and an i5, and recently told him to upgrade the hard drive since it was so slow. It's night and day. It was unusable, but now it's actually a nice computer to use.
I followed your video step by step and it worked flawlessly! I was a little nervous swapping my hard drive but with your clear instructions it was smooth as silk! Thank you!
Great video. Covered everything from removal of hardware, transfer software to even what to do with the old hard disk. That's what I love about your video. Good planning, good flow, very useful. Thanks a lot the video. 👏 It would be great if you could make a video of short stroking for hard disks too. I know it is way outdated.
Just done! Worked like a charm! Instead of minutes, starting up takes only seconds! By upgrading memory to 8GB and SSD, this laptop has never been this fast not even when brand new. Toshiba Satellite C670 from 2011. Great for the environment and my pocket :) Thanks a lot!
The Tech chap, 3years later this video is still relevant. Followed your steps and I swapped my HDD for SSD. Thank you for all you do. Why migrating my files, I was so happy that it worked and I wish I could get a snapshot or short video to share with you. It worked pretty well like I just turned off the PC and turned it back on again. 💯💯💯💯
You did a wonderful job on this tutorial explaining how to bring life back to an old laptop. In 2011, I swapped out my old 250gb hard drive for a 500gb hybrid ssd. Just that upgrade made a real difference. Before that, I had upgraded my motherboard, computer processor chipset, and ram. Now! I’m upgrading from my old hybrid ssd to a 1TB ssd in order to make my old HP DV4 laptop even faster, more current and more responsive too. I’m really not much of a fan of these new laptops which are very flimsy while one is only able to make an upgrade, or two. Again, thank you for a wonderful tutorial!
I believe you should really consider upgrading your laptop. Any moment now a componenet or a wire may just simply fail and you'll lose everything. If you're going to continue upgrading then there will be no use since it will be held back by the old CPU or the low amount of RAM.
@@Covid-bv4hp TY! I actually have 8gb of Ram on mine and I have it backed up on my older external 500GB Hybrid SSD. Also, I have no problem repairing and soldering electronic components either. I really don’t use my laptop to play games so that’s really not a problem. I have a Galaga 88 countercade which I upgraded. Many of these new laptops might have the speed, but they are limited by their lack of storage capacity.
Watched this video recently and decided to carry out the same type of upgrade but for my desktop instead. My C: drive was a WD 2tb and there was still a lot of spare sectors available. With this in mind I bought a Samsung 1TB 860 QVO. I used the Samsung migration software to carry out the cloning process, which took five and a half hours, only to fail at 99% complete. Total waste of half a day. The thing there is enough space on the new drive, its just the Samsung software didn't like transfering data from a larger drive to a more efficient smaller SSD. It was quite by chance doing some online research that I came across AOMEI backupper free software which can clone just the sectors used on the source or target drive to a smaller drive. I can't believe how easy the process was, and it only took two and a half hours. If there are any viewers out there in the same situation I would highly recommend AOMEI backupper free software. I am very disappointed with a company as big as Samsung who's software cannot as far as I'm aware carry out the same process as AOMEI.
I have this Christmas laptop that I got from santa and it’s painfully slow I’m sure it is a budget laptop but I’m gonna make the most of it. It has 4ram and a 1t hard drive 5400rpms , I looked up what the max it can handle and bought a 8g ram and 250g ssd . I’m not planning on doing anything crazy with it just the usual stuff RU-vid videos shopping online I’m invested $60 total ($20 on the ram and $40 on the ssd) still waiting for everything to come in the mail but hopefully it goes smoothly when I install it all. Good video man I’m glad to see the before and after loading times that is a big improvement
Before upgrade your hard drive, create a USB recover drive. It takes less than 5 minutes to reload and install Windows 10. Windows 10 requires 4 G RAM min, but it is better to install at less 8 G RAM or more.
I'm using an Alienware M11X, 2nd Gen i5. Have just installed a new battery, and about to switch to SSD, and upgrade the RAM. 10 years old and still running strong lol
One thing I really amazed that how disc cloning is this much easy! I'm typical old dinasour who manages his own duties from skratch, which is formatting, installing, copying etc. I just said, wow! I'm an old dinasour now haha thanks for the saving a lot of time, tears and struggle for me! This means you should keep yourself always updated, noted.
Pro tip: If you're going to get the external hard disk enclosure anyways, you don't need the SATA to USB cable. =) (That was my case. I put the new SSD in the enclosure first to clone the hard disk. Then I swapped the hard drives after.)
@The-Basketball-Historian: What external hard-disk-enclosure did you use? [Can you please tell the brand-name, model-name, and model-number of it? So that it's easier to track-down [which one you used] and buy one.]
@zohi 'enclosure' = $23, SATA cable = $7. Unless you need to have use of external ssd/hhd constantly then you must buy the enclosure. I am just cloning the ssd to replace the hhd. For my purpose i do not need to spend more. I did not have to mess around with setting or bios after cloned the ssd. the PC start right up as it was before but 10 times faster. Thanks.
I cannot tell you how happy i am right now. This may be 4 years old but it was my last shot before buying a new laptop. All in all this has cost me £78 to boost my laptop beyond belief. Excellent video and advice. Most straight forward video I have found on this subject, anywhere on RU-vid. Thank you Btw my laptop is an ASUS N56V and is probably 13 years or older now.
Well done-- concise. and to-the-point. Good tips about transfer from the existing drive, and the need for a USB-SATA adapter/cable. Those with an older SATA2 system bus will not see the dramatic improvement you enjoyed with a SATA3 bus, but the project is still worth doing. BTW-- consider upgrading the RAM, as well. Even a small increase can benefit over-all performance.
Great video I just cloned my drive to an SSD 870 Evo, I used Macrium free version and it worked like a charm, some nice speed increases in startup and overall loading of programs. Cheers
Great tips. I specialise in giving new life to old laptops. First, fit as much RAM as it will take - often more than the manufacturer says. Then search the Intel Ark and buy a top spec New Old Stock CPU from China. Around £25 for what cost £450 new. Then fit a SSD and watch it fly. And you can also replace the DVD drive with a HDD caddy for extra storage using the old hard drive.
I just got my ssd...popped it into my laptop ...and it was literally 10x faster....no seriously no joke...this is the single best upgrade u can give a pc
Thanks for this, recently just purchased everything I need to self-upgrade my Laptop. At a total cost of £125 I have got a 500GB WD Blue SSD, 8GB Ram, SATA Cable, New Laptop Battery & the precision screwdriver set which im sure will come in handy for future odd jobs. Thank you for this video its great. Will update in the future and let you know how I got on.
I apologize for being a pain but which SATA cable did you guys buy I see different numbers like 2.5 and 3.5 and just don't know which one I should be buying.
Thanks a lot, my man... I guess this is what I will do with my current laptop (512 GB mechanical, 4 GB of RAM, and i3 7th gen). I'm buying an SSD and after that I'll put 4 more GB of RAM. Love your content, dude. Blessings from Mexico.
Thats what i also did as a student, took my i5 4th gen, put a 500ssd and +4gb ram and its like a new thing. The processor aint that good though and lcd for photoshop and illustrator work, but if u dont have to do hard work in it, you dont need any better laptop :)
@@gzarari I'm an actuary... so, most of the stuff I do doesn't require crazy power (Stats, Data Bases, Medium Level Programming, Financial Simulations - R Studio, Python, SQL, Julia, Mathlab, etc)... and the good thing is that I have a 1080p touch display, so I'm good to go with Netflix for entertaiment. I do want to start as a content creator (music), and I love videogames, but always wanted to do it on a PC or Gaming Laptop (tired of consoles) but those are no my priorities for now. Thanks a lot for your words. Blessings :)
This is insane thank you so much tech chap, you just saved me thousand dollar, I was just about to throw my laptop as it was painfully slow it would not work only but after installing Samsung SSD and following your steps that laptop is a beast. It works flawlessly to perform everyday tasks it is an i3 laptop. Thank you so much bro.
Hey, i have a really slow laptop with a hard disk, i want to get a samsung ssd evo 870, can you tell me if its worth it? Im not that person that can buy laptops every year
@@Marko-pn3yp yes bro it is worth it, just make sure to follow the correct steps, ssd is a beast, my laptop is quite fast, but previously I was on Hard drive thats why I feel much greater speed
@@fozanshaque6094 thanks really much! And also, i will bring my laptop to a tech shop because there are a lot of steps that im not able to do at home, appreciate it bro👍
wow i'm going to upgrade my laptop with a ssd tomorrow and this video is all i needed really it answered all my questions thanks a lot The Tech Chap :)
A year and some months ago, I swapped my old laptop's hard drive for an ssd, and the difference was insane. Before, I would never turn the device off since it would take so long to boot up (I'm pretty sure that's the main reason why the HD ended up failing). The device is from 2011 according to the oldest files (it was handed down to me), and even though I got a new laptop last summer, the computer still worked great the last time I used it (I gave it to my mom).
@SL1CK First do the ssd then the ram but you cannot do anything more unless you try searching on google if you can install a new cpu in to the model that you have (i dont know if you have an external gpu or gpu in the cpu together) maybe you can install a new gpu but i am not sure if your model has that you can upgrade it And of course it Will be expensive af 😂
keep in mind that you should figure out what SATA version your laptop runs on, its good to note that if it used SATA 2 connections it's best to get a lower spec SSD as getting a SATA 3 SSD and applying on a SATA 2 port would mean that the SSD cant run to its full potential.
Worked followed the video only problem was formatting new drive first had to format on another computer first as came up with I/o error on the laptop that I was upgrading. So formated the disk on other laptop via USB then everything worked. Upgraded the hp2570p easily after that it runs better than ever. The Samsung software worked brilliant just under an hour to transfer data.
I upgraded my Acer 2011 laptop with a Kingston 240Gb SATA SSD to replace the 500GB hard disk. For about $30 it was good money spent. Can't see getting a larger more expensive drive for my old backup computer. It boots up remarkably fast even with Windows 10! I upgraded my relatively new Dell laptop with a 500G NVMe m.2 chip. Minutes turned to seconds! It was painful to use the 2T HD before the upgrade! It's now a pleasure to use. I used free Macrium for my Dell but did a clean install on my Acer.
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Gteat question Im on the hunt for that answer now, I see many videos of people saying "now plug in your windows 10 flashdrive and thats all" like WTF!? Explain that very important step again? Hope you found out.
Ayo thx for this man. I didn't want to shell out the extra money for the SSD when I bought my Alienware laptop. I now regret that as the HDD has already become much slower within a span of 2 years. I ordered a Samsung SSD off Amazon and will be changing it out as soon as it arrives.
hey bro if we install HHD and SSD together and select SSD for first priority for boot device Q,1 ) it will only boot fast or it will also increase whole laptop performance without any lag?
@Fizzickz First, I had my main PC Tower upgraded with an SSD with 110GB (too small). My laptop was 6-months ago as my spouse complained about how slow it was starting up back then (it was very slow). The SSD 1TB upgrade fixed that and I have no issues with zoom etc (I am not a gamer). I am thinking of upgrading my PC Tower to a bigger 1TB SSD as I use this every day. I got the SSD's at Best Buy (not sure the brand). Go big NOT small in the SSD.
I have a i3 2nd gen laptop which was taking about 30 seconds to boot ( after I freshly installed windows) and now when I have upgraded to an SSD my laptop boots in around 10 second.... So I suggest everyone to get an SSD no matter what size just transfer your windows partition to it and you will be blown away by the response and booting time of your system .... And you will never think of relying on a HDD to handle window patition After 1 month of experience with SSD: Transfer speed even from my hdd to hdd was about 20MBps but now after SSD data transfer speed from my SSD to HDD is minimum 70MBps (because thats the limit of my hard drive otherwise SSD can transfer data within itself at a rate of 500+ MBps)
Im using a Dell inspiron 15, 3000 series (with ddr3 XD) Absolutely great! thank you so much this is gonna give my graduation gift a new lease on life! Thank you man!
Just upgraded my Mom’s Lenovo AMD G50-45 Laptop for her. Upgraded the 4GB RAM to 16GB (maxed out now 😁 with G.Skill Ripjaws CL11 8x2 sticks of Ram), along with the 1TB hybrid HDD (didn’t know was a hybrid, which pretty cool considering when laptop was released, imo) to a 1TB crucial ssd (why not Samsung....simple. I picked up this SSD new for $74.89 & couldn’t pass that deal up😉). Gotta say, even going from a hybrid hdd to a ssd, I’m still able to dramatically see a difference. The “complete boot” from off to everything loaded etc...before upgrade was 1:08, & with new ssd.....the complete boot for all apps, daemons, etc...loaded is; an impressive 22 seconds. Wish I would have done this ages ago 🤦🏼♂️. The RAM is nice too, especially using Chrome😏. So for a grand total of $148.72, the laptop has new life... The main reason this needed done, the HDD was making grinding, high pitched noises; w/ bsod, black screen, & frozen/locked screen, & we all know what this means (nothing good!). So instead of buying new laptop, the laptop works great, better actually, & has some new pep & will last for another 6 yrs I’m hoping, lol (for work mainly & the occasional RU-vid vid, movie watching, etc... Not a gaming machine so should be just fine for what they use it for, fyi). Cheers✌🏼
I got a ThinkPad e585 18 months ago. I replaced the stock HDD with a 1 TB 860 EVO because it was cheaper to do do myself than custom order my e585 with an SSD. The e585 "replaced" a Thinkpad e530. That had a 7 year old HDD. It was time, so I installed an SSD and wiped Windows 7 in favor of Linux Mint. The e530 is so much snappier and a great back up machine.
I have a dead model (like a specially made laptop) Asus K556U. It has a i7 dual core, 8GB ram, nvidias 930m i guess? The HDD was seagate and it broke in the first 300 days so we replaced it for free. Now its a HGST but its slow as crap. I am thinking of buying some cheap WD or Sandisk SSDs really.
Hey there, GREAT video - thanks for sharing. Quick question that I hope you can help with....Just bought a 2021 Acer Nitro 5 AN517-54-77KG Gaming Laptop (Intel Core i7-11800H, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Ti, 17.3" FHD 144Hz IPS Display, 16GB DDR4, 1TB NVMe SSD, Killer Wi-Fi 6) and have the ability to expand either to a 2.5 SSD or HDD. Which would you recommend is better for overall performance and streaming? I'm torn between adding another SSD, HDD or upgrading the NVMe SSD and adding another SSD/HDD.....so confused to which. Please help???
I upgraded my HP Envy 15 main 1T mechanical drive with a SP 1T SSD and changed my DVD drive with a hard drive caddy for my 1T mechanical drive as a storage drive. Fantastic, Windows 10 boot time is less than 9 seconds. SSD drive got to be a 3D NAND drive for fast and long life data storage.
Been considering this for awhile. I have an older i3 machine that was originally bought as a Win8 machine that I took to 10 back when that was first released as a free upgrade. It works fine for the light work I ask of it, but at 6 years old now, I know that drive is going to belly up on me some day. Thanks for the vid
Hi, when buying the SSD to replace the HDD, can i buy any SSD as long as it has enough space or is there any specifics to look for? And thanks for the great video! :D
hello to ni laptop that had 12 GB of RAM and 1 Tb of HDD, I updated it to 32 GB of RAM SSD samsung 960 PRO M.2 2 Tb and samsung EVO SATA3 4 Tb SSD and the truth flies, very good your channel
