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phairestofthemall

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Hey all,

I have an Acer Aspire 7552G-5430 laptop with nothing in the secondary HDD slot, and I'm considering putting an SSD in there. However, the drive bracket for this laptop costs like $50 (?!) and that sucks, so I was wondering if it would hurt to install the SSD without it's housing, which would probably make it light enough to not need a support bracket. I know that opening the SSD housing would void it's warranty, but I'm asking aside from that, operation-wise, is there any reason to not do that? Alternate solution suggestions also welcome- thanks!
 
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I would advise against it, you're taking off shielding and a basic layer of protection. Theoretically, there shouldn't be any problems since you're not working with moving parts. That said, your drive would be much more exposed and more likely to fail due to a short.
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I would advise against it, you're taking off shielding and a basic layer of protection. Theoretically, there shouldn't be any problems since you're not working with moving parts. That said, your drive would be much more exposed and more likely to fail due to a short.
 
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Just leave it in the housing and attach it with an improvised method -- some wire works, I've even used duct tape on a few with no harm done. I would not remove it from the housing though, as you would be more likely to short its circuits against something.
 
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The mounting bracket you may need to shop more for, maybe on Ebay or Amazon, and not directly OEM from Acer (most expensive model). The custom way the mounting is made is what your paying for. Yes $50 is reasonable for it BTW, though I prefer at around half that, it is common. That said, the bracket helps keep your drive from moving at all.. so even a simple knee bump into the desk can cause the drive to 'unseat' and then eventually corrupt the data on it, if not worse cause a short connection and fry the drive.

Further tip, SSD should be your OS and large file install area, YES you will have to install a clean copy of Windows (check every Add SSD Tip and tricks and it is the same answer that I had run into for myself too) then turn off Virtual Memory, map Temp / Log files to the HDD, and so on to maximize the lifespan of the SSD (they have shorter read/write lifespans then HDD). The whole point the SSD does is remove the 'lag' caused by Windows looking up a font, loading a icon, understanding your moving the mouse, etc. which trickles into Games and Applications usage (loading 4 Paintshop images with multiple layers for example).
 
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