- Apr 10, 2013
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Hi everyone,
This forum has always been extremely helpful to me and therefore I continue to ask for help when needed; despite the fact it makes me look n00bish I know I can always get professional-level help from the braintrusts here.
Anyway I have a new laptop, an Acer Aspire V5-552PG-X469 that is less than 3 weeks old. I am going to take the steps to upgrade it to it's maximum potential which I have been told is adding a Solid State Drive and maximizing the ram to 12GB.
In case of the ram, it's simple. It has 8GB factory RAM but apparently 4GB are soldered to the board or something like that, and it has one bay with a 4GB dimm. I can replace it with an 8GB chip to make 12GB total. Simple enough.
I also plan on adding a Samsung 840 PRO 256GB SSD... but I am very unsure of the process. I am told by someone else they looked it up and the drive is compatible... but I am worried I will need an "installation kit" and "adapter cord" ... when you look at BestBuy (which is NOT where I am buying from) they say you need to buy their kit. do I in fact need more?
Also if anyone could help me with the actual entire process. My plAN IS to remove the 1TB WD HDD from inside, put in the 256GB SSD, use the 1TB WD HDD as an external drive for storage, and put my Windows and stuff like that on the SSD. I was reading that cloning a drive is the easiest but I can't do that because the SSD drive needs to be bigger than the drive-to-be-cloned. So I am worried about how I'll get my data onto the SSD
Ok thanks much as always!
This forum has always been extremely helpful to me and therefore I continue to ask for help when needed; despite the fact it makes me look n00bish I know I can always get professional-level help from the braintrusts here.
Anyway I have a new laptop, an Acer Aspire V5-552PG-X469 that is less than 3 weeks old. I am going to take the steps to upgrade it to it's maximum potential which I have been told is adding a Solid State Drive and maximizing the ram to 12GB.
In case of the ram, it's simple. It has 8GB factory RAM but apparently 4GB are soldered to the board or something like that, and it has one bay with a 4GB dimm. I can replace it with an 8GB chip to make 12GB total. Simple enough.
I also plan on adding a Samsung 840 PRO 256GB SSD... but I am very unsure of the process. I am told by someone else they looked it up and the drive is compatible... but I am worried I will need an "installation kit" and "adapter cord" ... when you look at BestBuy (which is NOT where I am buying from) they say you need to buy their kit. do I in fact need more?
Also if anyone could help me with the actual entire process. My plAN IS to remove the 1TB WD HDD from inside, put in the 256GB SSD, use the 1TB WD HDD as an external drive for storage, and put my Windows and stuff like that on the SSD. I was reading that cloning a drive is the easiest but I can't do that because the SSD drive needs to be bigger than the drive-to-be-cloned. So I am worried about how I'll get my data onto the SSD
Ok thanks much as always!
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