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Regardless of why you decide to replace the hard drive, you need to understand that replacing a hard drive is not the same as installing other PC parts - everything is much more complicated here. The hard disk contains operating system, many important files and programs.
And if personal data can be easily transferred from one hard drive to another, then with the OS and service files everything is more complicated.
Therefore, before replacing HDD necessary Windows tools postpone important information from the old device to the new one. This is done through the "Backup and Restore" section in the Control Panel. You need the item "Create a system image". 
You select the disk where you save the image and archive it, and when you install a new disk, you restore the system. 
How to replace a hard drive
Before changing the hard drive, of course, you need to buy a new one. You need to check that the interface of the new disk matches your computer. Best to change old disk to a new one with the same controller interface, size and power connector. 
If you cannot choose a drive similar to the previous one, you need to carefully compare the characteristics and choose a device that will fit in all respects to the place of the old drive.
The hard drive can be SATA or PATA controller interface. SATA comes in three flavors, so you need to determine which interface is right for you. In addition, a hard drive can come in a variety of physical sizes. 
Before replacing the hard drive, you need to ground yourself so as not to damage the computer components. This problem is solved with an antistatic wrist strap, or you need to constantly touch the PC case. 
Further, the replacement of the hard drive is carried out in this way:
- The computer case unscrews
- The hard drive is disconnected from all cables
- The disk itself is in the case - you need to unscrew the fasteners and remove the old disk from the case.
- We put a new one in place of the old disk, fix it with bolts and reconnect all the cables.
An SSD is a solid state drive. Such a component has more high speed work than HDD, but the price is much higher and the capacity is lower.
While HDDs can now have capacities of up to a terabyte, solid-state drives will not be able to reach that level anytime soon. In addition, an SSD can be rewritten no more than 10,000 times, compared to 1,000,000 times for an HDD.
You can put an SSD drive in a PC in different ways:
As you can see, there are many nuances to consider before replacing the HDD. Much also depends on the model of the drive that you decide to install instead of the old drive. In addition, you have to carefully choose the size of the disk and the place for it, so that in the future there will be no problems.
Hello admin. I read your article on replacing a laptop hard drive with a solid state SSD drive and I want to ask you.
I have ASUS laptop K50C and before that it is braked ( Celeron processor 220 1200 MHz and 2 GB DDR2 800 MHz memory), which is just tin. What do you think, in my case, the laptop will make the replacement of the HDD to the SSD faster? I increased the 2 GB RAM to 4 GB and nothing has changed, the brakes have not disappeared. I do not play games, I work in office applications and use the internet.
I would like from you not just words that yes, everything will work faster, but also the results of some tests. And another question, if after replacing I install the remaining HDD from the laptop instead of the floppy drive (using the SlimDVD adapter) , then will it be defined in the BIOS and can an operating system be installed on it?
Hello everybody! I read this letter while at work and thought about where to get such a model, we have not sold it for a long time, and not for disassembly, and then the idea crept into my head to disassemble my partner's working laptop, just ASUS K50C, because he my new laptop was dismantled ten times and experimented there, so we will dismantle his device today for the sake of a scientific experiment, I think he will not mind
The ASUS K50C laptop reviewed today is budget model and was created not for games, but for everyday work in office applications and the Internet.
How will it behave on an ordinary budget laptop, is there any point in such a replacement? Will our laptop become faster after installing an SSD in it, we will find out about this at the end of the article!
Before replacing the HDD with the SSD, let's test the hard drive for everyone famous program CrystalDiskMark, this small utility will measure the speed of reading and writing data to a hard disk. After installing an SSD solid-state drive on the laptop, we will also conduct tests and compare them with those obtained earlier from a simple HDD.
CrystalDiskMark official website
http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html
CrystalDiskMark is downloaded in an archive, unzip it into a folder and run executable.
CrystalDiskMark writes and reads information on the hard disk in blocks (1024Kb, 512Kb, 4Kb);
Select drive C :, push the button All and it happens:
Seq: Sequential read / write test (block size = 1024Kb);
512K: Random write / read test (block size = 512Kb);
4K: Random write / read test (block size = 4Kb);
Friends, let's remember the test results, but I especially advise you to remember the speed of random writing in 4 KB blocks, which is hushed up by all manufacturers of hard drives (then we will compare it with SSD). In real work, the hard disk, for the most part, writes data in small blocks and inIn our case, the write speed is terribly low 0.385 (this is typical for most conventional HDDs).
ASUS K50C disassembly
It is very easy to disassemble the ASUS K50C laptop.
Turn off the laptop and unplug it, turn it over. Remove the battery compartment cover.
Carefully squeeze the two latches and take out the battery (this must be done).
We unscrew the first screw securing the cover.
We unscrew the four screws located on the back of the laptop, two at a time; left and right
We do not remove back cover laptop, but move it.
We unscrew the screw securing the drive and take it out. Also, unscrew the four screws securing the hard drive and carefully pull the silicone tab to the right, remove the hard drive.
Unscrew the four screws and remove the sled from the HDD.
Laptop HDD and SSD have the same 2.5-inch form factor, which means the sled can be easily installed on the solid-state drive.
What to do with a laptop hard drive?
There are two options.
For a laptop HDD, you can buy a nice one and use it as a portable USB hard drive.
In short, there are many options, choose any.
In this article I suggest install laptop HDD in the adapter SlimDVD instead of a floppy drive, the installation process itself is described in detail in the article, the link to which I gave a little higher, here I will only note that you need to fix the HDD in the adapter SlimDVD as expected,
then transfer a special mount from the drive to it
We install a solid-state drive and an adapter from an HDD into the laptop.
We fix everything with screws.
Replace and secure the laptop cover with five screws. We put the battery and close it with a lid.
We turn on the laptop and go to the BIOS in the Boot tab, here we need the option Hard disk drives (defining the dominance of hard drives).
searching results
We enter it and see that both of our drives are identified: a regular Seagate HDD connected via a SlimDVD adapter and a solid-state drive SSD Kingston, we can make any of them a priority for loading a laptop and we can install an operating system on any of them. Usually, an operating system is installed on an SSD, and a regular HDD is used to store files.
Installing an operating room on a Kingston SSD Windows system 7 and run the drive test in the CrystalDiskMark program.
Result
Test of sequential write / read information blocks 1024- 512KB on SSD is twice as fast as on HDD, and blocks of 4Kb 20-30 times.
V In real conditions of hard disk operation, writing / reading of small blocks will occur much more often than large ones, so the solid-state drive will work faster than a regular HDD.
Output:
Friends, I do not urge anyone to urgently change the hard drive of a laptop to a solid-state drive, and the article is given to you first of all for your acquaintance.
If you are a computer enthusiast, here's what to recommend; install an SSD-drive on your laptop and install Windows 7, 8.1 on it, work like this for several days, and then put a regular HDD back into your laptop and you will immediately feel the difference in speed.
SSD drive- non-volatile secure solid-state device for permanent data storage, built on the basis of flash modules. Consists of a memory controller, DRAM volatile memory chips, and NAND flash nonvolatile memory chips.
Positive and negative sides
The advantages of using solid-state storage media are undeniable: there are improved performance indicators, and increased shock resistance, and vibration resistance, and low power consumption. Such devices do not contain moving mechanical parts, so they do not get warm, they are not afraid of shocks and even falls. They are suitable for use in harsh operating conditions in which the HDD would simply not be able to work.But today, the massive use of SSD is hampered by the high price and relatively small memory capacity. Capacity HDD disks has already reached more than a terabyte, and such volumes are still unimaginable for solid state drives. An equally significant drawback is limited number of rewrites(no more than 10,000 times). Winchesters, on the other hand, are successfully overwritten up to 1,000,000 times.
What to look for when choosing an SSD?
Capacity... Operating system with installed applications already takes about 35 GB. In conditions limited budget A 64 GB drive may be enough if you have an external hard drive and do not have resource-intensive programs installed, for example, for video and photomontage.Interface... V modern laptops to connect an optical drive and hard drives usually the SATA interface is used. Bandwidth SATA is 150 MB / s, SATA II 300 MB / s, SATA III 600 MB / s. In a laptop, the read speed of an average HDD is about 70 MB / s, and an SSD is 500 MB / s. Consequently, a solid-state drive bundled with SATA only doubles in speed, and seven times with SATA III. Thus, the maximum data exchange rate will be limited by the type of SATA interface. Does it make sense to install an expensive SSD and be limited to the old interface?
Form factor... As a rule, laptops have 2.5-inch HDDs, less often 1.8-inches. For tablets and ultrabooks, there are specially designed slim drives such as the 3.6mm M5M from Plextor.
Installation
The drive can be installed in a laptop in three ways:1. In a separate compartment... There are laptops that provide space for multiple hard drives. This is the simplest and the best option: The SSD storage on which the operating system and programs are installed provides fast start and quiet operation, and the HDD disk is used exclusively for data storage.
2. Instead of a standard hard drive... The high cost does not allow installing large solid state drives. Here, the laptop owner needs to decide what is more important for him - to save a large amount of data storage or to get a high speed of work.
3. Instead of an optical drive... Many users, to save additional disk space, install an SSD instead of a standard hard drive, and a hard disk instead of a practically unused CD / DVD-RW optical drive. It should be noted that this option is valid for installing a solid state drive with SATA interface... Otherwise, the low-speed port will negate all the advantages of the SSD. Also, the cooling is worse in the optical drive bay. This fact is irrelevant for SSDs, but it can be critical for HDDs.
To install a hard drive or SSD in a bay DVD drive will require a special OptiBay adapter... OptiBay container thickness for MacBook is 9.4 mm, for others - 12.5 mm. Today, metal and plastic containers are produced. Metal models are heavier, but vibration-resistant and are recommended for HDD drives. As for OptiBay, you can look at Espada products, which are versatile products that fit most laptops.
After installing the solid-state drive, you need to reconfigure the parameters of the onboard SATA controller in the BIOS - select AHCI mode ... The fact is that the SSD controller will be able to receive the command TRIM only in this mode. TRIM is natively supported on Microsoft Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, MacOS and Linux. For the rest, you will have to use third-party utilities.
What to do with CD / DVD-RW?
The removed optical drive using a special container can be easily convert to external drive... While conventional external containers are designed to accommodate only a DVD drive or hard drive, the multifunctional external containers provide additional features... They allow you to simultaneously install optical disc and one more HDD, have several USB ports and a built-in card reader.Who to entrust the installation
Unlike personal computers, upgrading laptops is a more complicated process. This is due to the fact that the component parts are placed in the housing more densely and compactly, which complicates the modernization process. Certain laptop models require complete disassembly just to remove the hard drive. Easier and safer install the SSD in an authorized service center ... The cost of the work is 500 - 1000 rubles.If your new computer Since Windows 10 takes a long time to boot, it is most likely because it runs on a regular hard drive. This also applies to most older computers. Did you know that replacing the hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD) will make your machine run much faster? It's true that a five-year-old computer with an SSD is much faster than even a brand new one running on a regular hard drive. The good news is that replacement drives are fairly easy to make, and not too expensive, thanks to the fact that SSDs are now much more affordable than they were just a few years ago.
(A standard SSD looks like a traditional 2.5-inch laptop hard drive, but it's much faster.)
In this article, I will show you how to replace the internal hard drive of a Windows computer with a solid state drive while keeping the software, data, and settings unchanged. Windows control 7, 8 or 10. In the previous Windows versions SSDs are not well supported. The steps in this article are done on Windows 10, which you can install, by the way, as a free update until July 29, 2016, MacBook owners can familiarize themselves with.
General direction. The replacement process basically involves cloning the contents of an existing hard drive onto an SSD, and then directly replacing the hard drive from the computer to an SSD. This is a similar process for desktop and laptop computers, although it is much easier to work with a desktop computer due to its large size.
Depending on how much data you have on your main hard drive, this project will take anywhere from 20 minutes to several hours. You will not need to be actively involved most of this time.
A. Preparation.
There are several things to consider for this to work.First, you obviously need an SSD. While not all SSDs are created the same, all SSDs are much faster than any conventional hard drive, so the differences between the two are not significant to someone replacing a conventional hard drive. However, with the drive, try to buy the largest drive for the least money.
One important thing to keep in mind is make sure you buy an SSD with a higher capacity than the total amount of data you currently have on the hard drive you are replacing. This means, for example, that if the capacity of your computer's main hard drive is 1TB, but you used about 200GB of that, then you just need an SSD with a capacity of about 240GB. You can buy more capacious SSD or the same as your existing hard drive, if you can afford it.
The second thing you need is cloning software. There are quite a few of them, and most of them work well (some SSDs come with this type software), but my favorite is free version Macrium Reflect. This software allows you to clone an existing disk to a new one, even without restarting your computer. It also supports all types of hard disk formats.
The third thing you need is a USB-to-SATA adapter. These adapters can be found online for about $ 15 or so. If you have an external hard drive (whether portable or desktop), you can use its adapter part to work. Note that for a desktop computer, as an option, you can skip the search for such an adapter and set the SSD as a secondary internal drive for the cloning process, which is much faster than using a USB connection.
Finally, you need a small screwdriver. Choose the one that matches the screws on your computer. Typically a standard small cross will work.
Additional preparation.
This step is only necessary if you want to use an old used SSD (the one that was formatted before) to replace the existing hard drive on your computer. If you bought a new SSD, you can skip this step and go directly to the cloning process.There are two types of disc formats. This is the Master Boot Record (MBR) which is used on Windows 7 and above early versions as well as the GUID Partition Table (GPT) that was adopted on Windows 8 and above later versions... (Note that Windows 8 and Windows 10 work with MBR too.) If you want to use a used SSD for your computer, you must first convert it to the same disk format as your existing hard drive for the process cloning. If not, the system may not boot as a result.
It is quite easy to find out what is using the existing hard disk of the computer GPT or MBR. Here's how to do it.
1. Start the command line. (Right click on the "Start" button and select "Command Prompt" or search in the menu "All Programs> System Tools").
diskpart then press Enter. (Answer yes to the control question accounts if prompted.)
3. In the team diskpart prompt enter list disk, then press Enter.
You will see a list of disks installed on the system. If a disk is listed with an asterisk (*) in the GPT column, then it is using GPT. Otherwise, it is an MBR drive.
And here's how to make sure your SSD is of the same format type:
1. Start the command line.
2. In the window command line enter diskmgmt then press Enter. This will open the Disk Management window.
3. In the disk management window, find the SSD, which will be shown as disk 1 (or disk 2, etc. depending on the number of disks you have on the machine). Right click on the SSD then select Convert to GPT (if the current disk uses MBR), or Convert to MBR (if the current one uses GPT.) Just make sure it is the same type of disk format as your existing hard disk ...
B. Cloning a disk.
Now that you have everything you need, let's begin this process. Insert the SSD into a USB port on your computer using a USB to SATA cable.(Note that the steps below are on Macrium Reflect. With other versions or other cloning software, the steps will be slightly different, so follow the instructions in the software, but it should be easy enough to understand. The idea is that you are cloning existing hard drive on SSD, keeping all settings.)
1. Download and install Macrium Refelct Free (see link above).
2. After the installation is complete, double click on the Reflect icon on your computer desktop.
3. Under the existing computer icon, click on "Clone this disk ..." This will open the clone window.
4. In the clone window, click "Select a disk to clone to ..." then select the SSD that is connected to the computer via the USB port.
Additional note: Here you can check to make sure both disks are the same type of disk format (GPT or MBR). Also, if your existing hard drive has many small partitions, and you are using an SSD of the same or smaller capacity, you may encounter an error saying that not all partitions can fit on the SSD. In this case, you can disable the sections on the right side of the main section, which always contains (C :) in its name. This is the section that contains the operating system.
B. Replacing the hard drive with SSD.
This final step involves ejecting your existing hard drive. On most laptops, this is conceived simply by placing the hard drive in a bay on the edge of the computer. You can pull it out after you unscrew a couple of screws on the bottom of the laptop. Sometimes hard drives fit under the battery. With desktop computers, things are easier, where hard drives (3.5-inch versions) are easy to find as soon as the case cover is open. You should refer to the user manual or search the Internet for information on how to remove the hard drive from your computer. Note that for desktops, some SSDs come with a 3.5 ”bay adapter to make them usable in desktop computers. However, if your SSD does not have such an adapter, you can leave the SSD hanging inside the computer case. Since SSDs have no moving parts and the desktop computer is usually motionless, there is little or no harm in leaving the SSD hanging loose inside the case (just make sure it doesn't touch anything).After removing the old hard drive and installing the SSD, make sure you tighten all the screws when installing an SSD... In my experience, if you have a screw or two left, you've done something wrong.
Now that the SSD has been installed, store the old hard drive in a safe place as permanent backup... Or you can also use it with a USB-to-SATA adapter as a drive for the current backup. V desktop computer, you can actually still use the old hard drive as a spare if there is room for it inside the computer case.
Restart your computer several times so that the operating system gets used to new SSD... Don't worry, your computer will boot up noticeably faster now.
When replacing an HDD with an SSD, how much performance improvement can you expect? In this article, we will check on the example of the Plextor M6V 256GB model. Also the article provides detailed instructions how to replace hdd with ssd.
Relatively good read performance, compatibility with notebooks and Ultrabooks (6.8mm thick), PlexTurbo 3 technology, 3 year warranty with unlimited data writing.
Minuses
- poor performance in write tests;
- low performance under prolonged load;
- the price could be a little lower.
Once upon a time replacing hdd with ssd was monstrously expensive, and only a few could afford such computer optimizations. Those times are fortunately gone as media prices fell to such low level that at present they are not something unusual, even less wealthy customers can afford them, in particular, this applies to models with a volume of 120 - 128 GB. The 240 - 256 GB models are also very popular.
Why replace your hard drive with an SSD?
Okay, but why should you replace your HDD with an SSD? Replacing hdd with ssd on a computer comes down to the principle of operation of SSDs, magnetic disks are replaced here by semiconductor drives, which provide much higher efficiency and significantly less data access time. As a result, you can count on greater comfort when using your computer, as well as more fast loading OS and applications (including games).
SSDs, by the way, offer lower power consumption and are shock-resistant, with the added benefit of being smaller and lighter. These features give a definite advantage in mobile devices, where, in addition to efficiency, it is mobility that is important, and as a result, the maximum operating time on the built-in battery. Based on this, roughly speaking, you already know the answer to the question: what better hdd or ssd for laptop?
SSDs aren't for everyone yet ...
Nowadays, the big disadvantage of solid state drives is the price-to-capacity ratio compared to hard drives that use traditional magnetic disk drives (HDDs) - which are larger and cheaper per GB. Also the number of entries and erasures is one which is better than hdd, on ssd it is slightly smaller. But the industry is constantly evolving, so in the future, in a few years, you can expect solid state drives of the same size, or even more capacity than HDD. Prices from year to year are also getting lower and it is predicted even for the equation with HDDs.
At least this is what the theory looks like, so it was decided to test it in practice using the example of the inexpensive 256 GB Plextor M6V model.
Below is how to replace in computer HDD on an SSD, you will also see what an increase in performance speed you can expect, also thanks to the use of the proprietary PlexTurbo 3.0 technology. This information is intended for less experienced readers, not all are great experts, so if you advanced user do not blame me because you probably already know which disk better ssd or hdd.
Test platform
Video how to replace hdd with ssd in pc
Step-by-step instructions on how to replace hdd with ssd in a pc as well as transferring windows from hdd to ssd.
