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Will my Asus K55VM SX086D support an SSD?

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October 6, 2014 1:14:08 AM

Hi. I have the following laptop: http://www.asus.com/in/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/K55VM/speci...

Been using it for 2 years, and I feel the hard drive lag/slowdown quite a lot since past few months. Whenever something is being copied/installed, the rest of the programs will struggle to work. CPU/GPU Usage are not a problem.

My question: If I buy an SSD, will my laptop support it? For instance, I could be getting the following SSD: http://www.flipkart.com/samsung-840-pro-series-256-gb-s...

I'm not sure if my laptop will support the 2.5" SSD. If it helps, I checked the Device Manager and saw that my current HDD is the following: ST1000lm024.

Also, once I remove the old HDD, can I use it as an external HDD (considering its 1 TB size)?

Thanks for reading and any help will be appreciated.

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a b G Storage
October 6, 2014 1:29:07 AM

Hey HearseRider. You should have no problem with an SSD. There are even hard drive HDD/SSD caddy adapters so that you could get a 2nd HDD or SSD.

Hope that helps.
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October 6, 2014 1:32:37 AM

Boogieman_WD said:
Hey HearseRider. You should have no problem with an SSD. There are even hard drive HDD/SSD caddy adapters so that you could get a 2nd HDD or SSD.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD


Thanks for the response Boogieman, could you explain that 'caddy adapters' part a bit? I'm not that well versed technically.
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a b G Storage
October 6, 2014 1:37:51 AM

No problem. The caddy adapters are used when you want to have another HDD or SSD, because most laptops come with only one slot for an HDD. You remove your CD/DVD drive and replace it with a caddy adapter, which has a slot and connection for another HDD/SSD. And this way you have two drives instead of one.
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October 6, 2014 2:45:40 AM

Alright, thanks a lot for your help, Boogieman_WD. Will buy that SSD very soon and hope it works well with my laptop.
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