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    Replacement of HDD with SSD

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Curious_India, Oct 27, 2014.

  1. Curious_India

    Curious_India Newbie

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    I want to buy a light weight laptop but don't want to pay a high price. I have shortlisted HP 13-102tu which is priced at INR 38,000 (in India) and weighs 1.7 KG. It has 1 TB HDD. If I buy an aftermarket 128GB SSD and replace the internal HDD with this, I will reduce the weight by 400 gms and my laptop will become 1.3 KG only. I can use the 1 TB HDD as an external storage device. Do you think it is possible? Has anyone done something similar? (Other specs of this model suit me)
     
    Curious_India, Oct 27, 2014
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  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    You might be using the weight of a 3.5" (desktop) hard drive. 2.5" hard drives as used in notebooks typically weigh 100 to 120 grams.

    Your likely weight saving by changing the HDD to an SSD is likely to be around 50 grams.

    The best justification for installing an SSD is to improve the responsiveness of the computer in everyday usage and there is no technical reason I can think of why you cannot change the storage device.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Oct 27, 2014
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    cj1094 Notebook Enthusiast

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    You are right. Solid states drives are more compact. They don't have the moving parts like HDDs.
     
    cj1094, Oct 31, 2014
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  4. Seanwhat

    Seanwhat Notebook Evangelist

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    Not a chance you're seeing those kinda of weight drops, you must have confused your information somewhere along the lines. The speed increase using an ssd though is far beyond supreme, look forward to that instead.
     
    Seanwhat, Oct 31, 2014
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    flamy Notebook Consultant

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    Heelo bhai, like others have mentioned, the weight loss might be negligible, but you will get speed and battery life advantages. And, yes it should be pretty straightforward.
     
    flamy, Nov 13, 2014
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