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W10 PC + new SSD upgrade (tutorial).

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Postby Infrasonic » February 7th, 2021, 2:39 pm

As it comes up on here so often I thought I'd post a great YT tutorial from Chris @ Explaining Computers on upgrading an old PC with a HDD boot drive to SSD.
It's a two parter but you only really need the second part that does the actual installation / cloning with Macrium Reflect/ BIOS checks et al. Plus a bit towards the end on Diskpart for cleaning up the old HDD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8BaLpd69QI
Upgrading a desktop PC by replacing the hard drive with an SSD. This is the second episode in the series which began in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o-p5...​

Chapters
00:00​ Introduction

00:42​ The Plan
01:54​ The SSD
04:10​ Mounting & Connection
07:38​ Cloning
12:29​ Switch & Boot
16:48​ Keeping the Hard Drive
23:09​ Performance Tests
24:40​ What Next?

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Re: W10 PC + new SSD upgrade (tutorial).

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Postby Breelander » February 7th, 2021, 3:30 pm

Infrasonic wrote:As it comes up on here so often I thought I'd post a great YT tutorial from Chris @ Explaining Computers on upgrading an old PC with a HDD boot drive to SSD.
It's a two parter but you only really need the second part that does the actual installation / cloning with Macrium Reflect/ BIOS checks et al. Plus a bit towards the end on Diskpart for cleaning up the old HDD....


I've seen some of his videos before, all have been excellent and comprehensive - as is this one.

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Re: W10 PC + new SSD upgrade (tutorial).

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Postby Infrasonic » April 22nd, 2021, 1:03 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX_yFWKXkz8

New motherboard, RAM and Pentium Gold CPU fitted in an ten year old desktop PC. This is the fourth episode in the “Old PC Upgrade” series that commenced in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o-p5...​

My video in which I install Windows 10 is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz_Ay...​

The final video in this series will feature a Linux install and tests, and is expected to post on April 25th 2021.
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Re: W10 PC + new SSD upgrade (tutorial).

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Postby GeoffF100 » April 23rd, 2021, 2:10 pm

Infrasonic wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX_yFWKXkz8

New motherboard, RAM and Pentium Gold CPU fitted in an ten year old desktop PC. This is the fourth episode in the “Old PC Upgrade” series that commenced in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o-p5...​

My video in which I install Windows 10 is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz_Ay...​

The final video in this series will feature a Linux install and tests, and is expected to post on April 25th 2021.
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He had to pay a lot for the hardware, which I expect is a result of the heavy demand due to people working at home. The PassMark score for the Pentium Gold was about the same as the quad-core Celeron J4105 in his Mini ITX build:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRJvSux34Hk

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cp ... Hz&id=3159

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Re: W10 PC + new SSD upgrade (tutorial).

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Postby Infrasonic » April 23rd, 2021, 4:56 pm

GeoffF100 wrote:He had to pay a lot for the hardware, which I expect is a result of the heavy demand due to people working at home.


Yeah I ordered an 8GB stick of DDR3 RAM today for £40 - I've had discount alerts going for ages but nothing was coming up.
Crucial and others had no stock at all so I ended up with CCL Online who had plenty (they must have Nostradamus as their buyer or something...).
https://www.cclonline.com/

SSD's aren't too bad at the moment, looking at getting a 1TB Crucial MX500 when they hit sub £80 again.

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Re: W10 PC + new SSD upgrade (tutorial).

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Postby Stompa » April 24th, 2021, 9:18 am

Infrasonic wrote:SSD's aren't too bad at the moment, looking at getting a 1TB Crucial MX500 when they hit sub £80 again.

Just spotted this:

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/crucia ... on-3712365

£67.64

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Re: W10 PC + new SSD upgrade (tutorial).

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Postby Infrasonic » April 24th, 2021, 9:53 am

Stompa wrote:
Infrasonic wrote:SSD's aren't too bad at the moment, looking at getting a 1TB Crucial MX500 when they hit sub £80 again.

Just spotted this:

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/crucia ... on-3712365

£67.64


Ordered, thanks!


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