Sled for ssd drive. Sled for SSD drive. What is needed for installation

Every user would like to install a modern SSD drive on their PC for better productivity and higher system speed. Installing an SSD on your computer is incredibly easy, and the process itself is usually not accompanied by any difficulties.

By the way, there was a similar article earlier, but in it we only needed to remove a small cover on the back of the case, which does not create any difficulties.

But installing an SSD in a laptop instead of a DVD drive is much more difficult, because first you need to carefully disassemble it. And many users already have difficulties at this stage. So let's look at the whole process in more detail.

What is required for installation?

First, you should familiarize yourself with the characteristics of your laptop to understand what components you need to purchase. As practice shows, most modern models with a CD drive can easily be equipped with an additional hard drive. Therefore, there should be no problems.

Before you start, you should make sure that you have everything you need for full-fledged work.

You will need:

Special attention should be paid to the last point, so let's look at it in more detail.

How to choose an adapter?

The drive size comes in two types and differs in thickness - 9.5mm and 12.7mm. Before purchasing an adapter, carefully measure the thickness of your drive and only then buy the appropriate adapter. Otherwise, the SSD drive adapter simply will not fit into the laptop in place of the DVD drive.

You should also pay attention to the interface through which the drive is connected. If the interface is SATA, then using an adapter with an adapter to mSATA, you can easily install an SSD instead of a disk drive. But if your DVD drive is connected via IDE, and this is an outdated technology, then to connect the SSD you will need an adapter from IDE to SATA.

As mentioned above, the adapters differ only in thickness, while their shape and width are the same. The adapter usually comes with a disposable screwdriver, screws for securing the hard drive, and a plastic cover. The latter is needed for installation on the adapter to cover the free space that appears after removing the drive.

Disassembling a laptop

After we have prepared everything necessary for replacement and purchased a suitable adapter for the SSD, we can begin opening the laptop and then replacing the drive.

You can do this as follows:

After the battery is disconnected, you need to remove the installed hard drive.

For this:

Under the cover there is a hard drive and memory modules. We need to remove the hard drive, since a solid-state drive will be installed in its place.

If you ask why we install the SSD here, and not instead of the drive, then there is a simple explanation for this.

When the speed of the bus to which the hard drive is connected is faster (in this case, the hard drive is connected via SATA 3, while the drive has SATA 2), then the SSD is installed in place of the HDD.

To properly remove the drive, you must carefully follow the following instructions:

We put both drives aside; we will return to them later.

Removing the Top Cover

Now we need to remove the top cover of the laptop by unscrewing all the fixing screws. You should take into account the fact that they come in different sizes and you definitely need to remember where they were unscrewed from.

After all the screws are unscrewed, the matter remains with the pick. Now you need to separate the bottom and top of the laptop. You need to be extremely careful when opening it, as most models have unreliable latches that can easily break. Check again that all screws have been removed, otherwise there is a risk of damaging the device case.

To remove the cover, you need to insert the pick into the slot that is located between the top and bottom covers, and slowly turn it to release the latches located inside the case. You should start from the front of the laptop, where the indicator lights are located. It is necessary to walk the mediator around the perimeter of the entire body.

After you separate the top cover from the bottom, do not lift it up suddenly. Both parts are connected by cables, and you can damage them.

When working with some devices, you do not have to disconnect the cables, since sometimes you can replace the DVD drive without removing the top part of the device, which can significantly save your time.

DVD drive

Now unscrew the DVD drive. We will need a short screwdriver to remove the screw that secures the drive to the case. Once it is unscrewed, you can remove the drive without any problems.

Then remove the plastic cover from the DVD drive. To do this, you need to open it. To do this you will need a paperclip or a needle. Find a small hole on the front panel of the device and insert a paper clip into it. After lightly pressing, the drive carriage will move out of the housing, and you will have full access to its lower part and can easily separate the plug from the carriage.

Once the plug is removed, it will need to be placed on the adapter.

After this, we install the adapter in place of the drive we previously removed and tighten the fastening screw.

All that remains is to turn the laptop over and install the SSD drive in place of the old HDD. Close the cover removed at the beginning of disassembly and tighten the remaining bolts around the perimeter of the device, insert the battery.

The laptop is now assembled and ready to use. We installed two hard drives: we put the old HDD in an adapter and connected it instead of a disk drive, and a new solid-state drive was mounted in its place.

Software settings

The next step will be setting up Bios, namely enabling AHCI mode. This mode allows you to increase the speed of the drive, mainly due to the advantages of NCQ technology. It also opens up other possibilities, such as hot swapping.

Now you know how to install an SSD in a laptop instead of an old DVD drive, and you can do it yourself without any problems, following our instructions exactly.

By the way, you can completely transfer the system without losing its functionality using special programs, for example, Acronis Universal Restore, Macrium Reflect and others. They have wide functionality and will help you in this situation.

Hello admin! ? I bought a solid state drive SSD Kingston SSDNow V300, came home and opened a beautiful box, and in it only the SSD itself, no screws, no adapter bracket from 2.5 to 3.5 inch form factor to install the SSD in the hard drive bay my system unit! I called the store where I bought the solid-state drive, they said that in fact this bracket needs to be purchased separately, I had to go again, I don’t know why they didn’t tell me right away.

I secured the SSD in this bracket similar to a simple sled, but the first time it was wrong, I couldn’t connect the power cable and data cable to the SSD. The SSD solid-state drive must be secured in the sled in such a way that the power and interface connectors protrude slightly from the bracket, only then can the power cable and SATA data cable be connected to them.

In the end, I still won and installed the SSD into the system unit correctly. But after a couple of days I found out that it was possible to simply secure the SSD to the side of the system unit using ordinary vinyl clamps. In short, I thought everything was simple, but it turned out to be difficult.

But that’s not all, you will laugh, but I had to go to the computer store for the third time to buy a SATA III interface cable (up to 6 Gbps) and only then did I install an SSD drive in my system unit and transfer my Windows 7.

It would be nice to have a small instruction with pictures on your website so that users don’t ride like I did.

That's right, friends, in some cases, solid-state drives are sold without a special adapter bracket from a 2.5- to 3.5-inch form factor, then you need to buy it separately. All this must first be clarified with the seller before purchasing an SSD. If your SSD does not come with an adapter, you need to buy it separately, it costs around 150 rubles and they will sell it to you in a special bag, which will also have special screws for attaching the SSD to the bracket itself, and attaching the bracket with the SSD to the basket for hard drives of the system unit.

And in some cases, solid-state drives are sold with a special adapter bracket, for example Kingston HyperX 3K 120 GB, and HyperX 3K costs a little more, for example, the same SSDNow V300.

On many new computer cases, manufacturers have recently specifically provided space for mounting a 2.5 SSD solid-state drive. That is, no adapter is needed - a bracket from 2.5 to 3.5-inch form factor, for example, in one of the new Zalman cases there is such a cozy place on the back of the case for a solid-state drive.

So, after purchasing an SSD drive, we get this nice box.

On the box we see information about the read and write speed characteristics of our SSD and the highest speed SATA III interface (up to 6 Gb/s). A worthy manufacturer of the SandForce solid-state drive controller is also indicated.

We open the box, inside there is another box made of foamed polyethylene, it contains the drive itself

We take the SSD out of the box. The Kingston HyperX 3K SSD has a metal case with dark plastic inserts. The SSD bears the HyperX inscription indicating that it belongs to the flagship line.

And on the reverse side there is a bracket for installing an SSD in the 3.5-inch form factor of the hard drive cage of the system unit.

There are two sets of screws, the first for attaching the SSD to the 2.5 by 3.5 bracket, the second set of screws for fixing the bracket itself along with the SSD in the hard drive cage of the system unit. The screws are different sizes, do not mix anything up.

So, friends, you and I have almost everything to install our solid-state drive in the system unit, we only lack the SATA III interface cable (up to 6 Gbps), but I didn’t have to purchase that separately, since it was in the box from mine bought a year ago.

So, we attach our SSD to the 2.5 by 3.5 bracket with four screws

On a switched off computer We insert our bracket or a simple slide with our SSD solid-state drive into the hard drive cage of our system unit and secure it with four screws, two screws on each side. Please note that the basket already contains a simple SATA hard drive with the operating system, which I will transfer later to the SSD.

We remove another side cover of the system unit and secure the bracket with the SSD on the other side.

Connect the high-speed SSD SATA III solid-state drive (up to 6 Gbit/s) to the motherboard correctly, to the SATA III connector (up to 6 Gbit/s), otherwise it will not reveal all its capabilities (read our article)

And of course, the AHCI mode for hard drives must be enabled in the BIOS.

Well, we installed our SSD. If the SSD is new, then .

Friends, you can install the operating system on the SSD again, or you can. In other words, whatever you want, all the information you are interested in is on the site.

On the Internet you can find the opinion that you always need to install Windows on a solid-state drive again, but you cannot transfer a ready-made and stable operating system from a regular HDD to an SSD, since when Windows is installed on the HDD, accordingly, all its services are started for the HDD to work . But if you transfer such a system to an SSD, then many services will not only not help you work faster, but in addition will contribute to the rapid wear of the new SSD (for example, defragmentation).

I think this is not entirely correct, because the notorious defragmentation can be disabled, and I don’t want to spend several days on a clean installation of a system with hundreds of programs. And why then do SSD manufacturers themselves release utilities for transferring an operating system from HDD to SSD, are they illiterate?

I personally have transferred finished Windows to an SSD many times, for example, on my work computer I transferred Windows 8 (I have it as a traveler) from an HDD to an SSD (60 GB capacity) two years ago, then I transferred the same Windows to another drive SSD (capacity 120GB) everything works so fast for me that I don’t need it faster.

In the future, when, of course, we will install the new operating system on the solid-state drive again.

Hello!
In my next review I want to talk about something that is quite necessary for all owners of SSD drives - like a sled for a case in a bay for standard hard drives (3.5').
Good quality. I recommend for purchase. For details, please see cat.

I’ll start my story by saying that I recently became the owner of a solid-state drive, but due to its very small size, it was not possible to attach it anywhere in the case. I’ll just give you a photo of what it looked like before buying the sled.

In offline stores, this item is still quite rare, and if it is available somewhere, the price is 2-3 times higher than online. In particular, in Citylink, such a thing costs 200 rubles. And it’s not even a matter of saving; it’s not that great here. Firstly, it “didn’t burn” and it was possible to wait at least a month, at least two. And secondly, I wanted to order it out of curiosity, describe it in muska, and perhaps someone will be interested and also buy the subject for themselves, not being able to purchase it nearby.

So what do we have? The sled fully corresponds to the description. Good quality black metal body. I saw a red plastic sled for a dollar, but their quality even in the photo seemed dubious.

The set includes 8 mounting screws - 4 for attaching the drive to the slide and 4 for attaching the slide itself to the system unit.

Here is the disc itself, for the sake of which the purchase was started.

The SSD fit into the slide without any problems. All the holes aligned and the screws tightened.

Since my computer case has screwless fastenings, I put guides on the slide. Again, everything fit perfectly - all the fastening pins fell into place.

Well, the final touch is to insert it into the system unit.

As a result, the SSD drive is no longer hanging on cables, but is neatly installed in the bay for 3.5" drives.

P.S. I apologize for the not very high quality photos. I don’t have a camera, I take pictures with my smartphone camera.