Today I will be showing you how to install a solid state drive in your laptop, alongside the existing hard drive.
The primary reason for doing this is so you can run Windows from a small (and relatively cheap) solid state drive (mine is 60GB) while still storing all you music/games etc on a bigger hard drive (I have a 500GB Hitachi).
First of all, I purchased a solid state drive. I bought this one as it has relatively good read/write speeds and has TRIM support.
Secondly, I went here and bought an optical bay hard drive caddy. This will replace your existing CD/DVD or Blu-Ray drive.
While waiting to receive my SSD and optical drive caddy, I made a disk image backup of my existing 500GB hard drive (I’d recommend you do this in case you need to revert back to the existing hard drive in the future).
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| The SSD, drive caddy and the laptop |
