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    put SSD in Y460

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by hamuk, May 13, 2012.

  1. hamuk

    hamuk Newbie

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    my Y460 specs i5-430M, RAM 2 gb, ATI5650 1gb, HDD hitachi 500gb.. would you share a guide for me how to put a SSD in my notebook. thanks :)
     
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    It's really easy to swap out a hard drive in these. Just loosen the 4 screws on the biggest panel on the bottom of the laptop, take off the cover, and take the screw the is holding the hard drive in place off. Then just gently slide the hard drive out. Don't pull upwards when you take the hard drive out as you can damage the connectors.

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    The upper right panel with the four screws is where the hard drive is.
     
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  3. Syberia

    Syberia Notebook Deity

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    I would recommend upgrading to either 4 or 8gb of RAM along with that SSD. Its ridiculously cheap right now, and 4gb is generally the bare minimum you should be using with Win7 for decent performance.

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    hamuk Newbie

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    @350 and syberia: thanks for your help and suggestion :)
    what kind of SSD type for Y460, is it a hard drive ssd or msata ssd?
    and please tell me a brand that suitable for Y460
    thank you very much :)
     
    hamuk, May 15, 2012
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  5. Syberia

    Syberia Notebook Deity

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    It has an mSATA slot if you want to keep your HDD, you could also replace the HDD with a 2.5" SSD. Any brand is fine, just try to stay away from anything Sandforce (OCZ, the new SanDisk drives, Patriot Pyro, etc.) as they're not known for reliability. Intel and Samsung are probably the best bets.
     
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    hamuk Newbie

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    waw maybe from now on i want to keep my money to buy those ssd :D

    but i'm confuse where's a place to put msata ssd in Y460?
    i wanna keep my hdd cause lenovo says that they can make an hybrid drive (msata ssd+ hdd)...
     
    hamuk, May 15, 2012
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