Dell Inspiron 15 3000

Nardge

EveryWhere wrote: »

Do you remember this from post #41?

Anyway in order to upgrade for free to Windows 10 Pro, we needed to have the original Windows 7 Pro installation to hand. But you have already changed the drive.

So the choice now is to buy a cheap licence via eBay or temporarily install Windows 7 again in so that you can upgrade to 10 Pro for free.

I'm off island hopping...

Good afternoon,

Yes I was aware of what you'd said, but hadn't mentally correctly mapped out the steps to be taken.

With your help, we have a way forward now.

FAO Everyone

The SSD has made a CONSIDERABLE and STELLAR improvement to a laptop which under different circumstances I might well have had the ignorance to take for recycling, and what a waste of money that would have been! My HP 650 now works as though it were brand new! I plan to give all the above same treatment to a Dell Studio 1555, and I hope to be suitably positioned to repost here to inform you of it's success!

What a pleasant and supportive group of people you MSE 'Techies' are!

With Kind Regards

Nardge

Happy Saturday Morning all

I will soon be replacing the Hard drive of the above Dell Studio 1555 (circa 2009) to SSD too.

Random internet comments regarding this OP have included:

"Any standard 2.5" 9.5 mm or slimmer SATA notebook hard drive, hybrid drive or solid state drive will work - just about all SSDs and many hard drives are now 7 mm in height. These will work as well but require a shim to fit the larger bay in the system you have."

"Any standard 2.5" 7 mm SATA SSD will work - you will need a spacer (the system is designed for a 9.5 mm hard drive) to mount the drive; some kits from Samsung and Crucial include these."

It seems therefore that I will need an adaptor of sorts? If someone could confirm/refute,
and provide a link to the specific item I'll need to purchase to achieve the necessary I will be most grateful!

With Kind Regards

stragglebod

Nardge wrote: »

Happy Saturday Morning all

I will soon be replacing the Hard drive of the above Dell Studio 1555 (circa 2009) to SSD too.

Random internet comments regarding this OP have included:

"Any standard 2.5" 9.5 mm or slimmer SATA notebook hard drive, hybrid drive or solid state drive will work - just about all SSDs and many hard drives are now 7 mm in height. These will work as well but require a shim to fit the larger bay in the system you have."

"Any standard 2.5" 7 mm SATA SSD will work - you will need a spacer (the system is designed for a 9.5 mm hard drive) to mount the drive; some kits from Samsung and Crucial include these."

It seems therefore that I will need an adaptor of sorts? If someone could confirm/refute,
and provide a link to the specific item I'll need to purchase to achieve the necessary I will be most grateful!

With Kind Regards

Depending on which way round the SSD sits you may not need an adapter at all. If you do the drive you buy might actually come with one anyway, otherwise this is what you want:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/7mm-to-9-5mm-adapter-spacer-for-2-5solid-state-drive-SSD-SATA-HDD-hard-drive-P-O/392281938149?hash=item5b55d358e5


Or you can make your own just by taping a couple of mm of card to the SSD or the bottom of the mount.

neilmcl

Nardge wrote: »

Happy Saturday Morning all

I will soon be replacing the Hard drive of the above Dell Studio 1555 (circa 2009) to SSD too.

Random internet comments regarding this OP have included:

"Any standard 2.5" 9.5 mm or slimmer SATA notebook hard drive, hybrid drive or solid state drive will work - just about all SSDs and many hard drives are now 7 mm in height. These will work as well but require a shim to fit the larger bay in the system you have."

"Any standard 2.5" 7 mm SATA SSD will work - you will need a spacer (the system is designed for a 9.5 mm hard drive) to mount the drive; some kits from Samsung and Crucial include these."

It seems therefore that I will need an adaptor of sorts? If someone could confirm/refute,
and provide a link to the specific item I'll need to purchase to achieve the necessary I will be most grateful!

With Kind Regards

I updated an old Inspiron 15-3531 with a SSD and didn't require any adapter.

EveryWhere

Nardge wrote: »

Happy Saturday Morning all

I will soon be replacing the Hard drive of the above Dell Studio 1555 (circa 2009) to SSD too.

Random internet comments regarding this OP have included:

"Any standard 2.5" 9.5 mm or slimmer SATA notebook hard drive, hybrid drive or solid state drive will work - just about all SSDs and many hard drives are now 7 mm in height. These will work as well but require a shim to fit the larger bay in the system you have."

"Any standard 2.5" 7 mm SATA SSD will work - you will need a spacer (the system is designed for a 9.5 mm hard drive) to mount the drive; some kits from Samsung and Crucial include these."

It seems therefore that I will need an adaptor of sorts? If someone could confirm/refute,
and provide a link to the specific item I'll need to purchase to achieve the necessary I will be most grateful!

With Kind Regards

You won't need one. Likely the HDD will be in some sort of cage, so any spacer would be superfluous. Also, remember that an SSD has no moving parts, so even if it could move it wouldn't make a difference.

In the unlikely even of any movement, you would find something to fill the gap within the household. Piece of cardboard box for example.

toshi

Nardge wrote: »

Happy Saturday Morning all

I will soon be replacing the Hard drive of the above Dell Studio 1555 (circa 2009) to SSD too.

Random internet comments regarding this OP have included:

"Any standard 2.5" 9.5 mm or slimmer SATA notebook hard drive, hybrid drive or solid state drive will work - just about all SSDs and many hard drives are now 7 mm in height. These will work as well but require a shim to fit the larger bay in the system you have."

"Any standard 2.5" 7 mm SATA SSD will work - you will need a spacer (the system is designed for a 9.5 mm hard drive) to mount the drive; some kits from Samsung and Crucial include these."

It seems therefore that I will need an adaptor of sorts? If someone could confirm/refute,
and provide a link to the specific item I'll need to purchase to achieve the necessary I will be most grateful!

With Kind Regards

If you buy a Crucial SSD, which includes a spacer as well, anyway. I also recommend MX500 with 5 years warranty.

I did install an SSD to a bit older Dell Inspiron 6400 notebook, This was a slot-in (?) type SSD installation, and yes, I actually needed a spacer. Initially the SSD wasn't recognised. As I did not have a spacer, so I just reused a piece of cardboard as a spacer in the end lol.
Happy happy SSD computing :beer: