- Oct 15, 2017
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I had recently bought a cheap 400$ laptop (I live in India) to be used at work. It is a 7th gen core i3 with 4GB of RAM and a painfully slow 1TB of 5400 RPM HDD (DELL vostro 3468). The idea was that I'll be able to upgrade the HDD to an SSD and install an additional 4GB RAM and I'll get myself a decent laptop. I already have a spare SSD in my desktop that I could put in the laptop.
The problem
I popped open the laptop and I came to realise that the seagate SATA HDD has the SATA adaptor soldered onto it! It's connected to the mother board via a flexible flat cable. I tried pulling the SATA thing from the HDD and it did not budge and I did not want to put too much force on it. Since my SSD does not have the FFC thing I can't connect it. Is there anything I can do? Maybe there's a SATA to FFC adaptor? I remember opening my ASUS laptop 3 years ago and it had a normal SATA connector to the HDD, and I assumed every laptop would be similar.
I did try calling up the dell service centre. They quoted an insane 300$ for a 256GB SSD. So I can't go that route to get an SSD upgrade
I had recently bought a cheap 400$ laptop (I live in India) to be used at work. It is a 7th gen core i3 with 4GB of RAM and a painfully slow 1TB of 5400 RPM HDD (DELL vostro 3468). The idea was that I'll be able to upgrade the HDD to an SSD and install an additional 4GB RAM and I'll get myself a decent laptop. I already have a spare SSD in my desktop that I could put in the laptop.
The problem
I popped open the laptop and I came to realise that the seagate SATA HDD has the SATA adaptor soldered onto it! It's connected to the mother board via a flexible flat cable. I tried pulling the SATA thing from the HDD and it did not budge and I did not want to put too much force on it. Since my SSD does not have the FFC thing I can't connect it. Is there anything I can do? Maybe there's a SATA to FFC adaptor? I remember opening my ASUS laptop 3 years ago and it had a normal SATA connector to the HDD, and I assumed every laptop would be similar.
I did try calling up the dell service centre. They quoted an insane 300$ for a 256GB SSD. So I can't go that route to get an SSD upgrade
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