okay so today if you give me eight minutes and 13 seconds i'm going to walk
you through how to pull out those hard disk drives with the spinning platters
and replace them with solid-state drives this is an old xbs dell 8700
seven years old and some of my hard drives here are starting to make noises
so i'm going to swap them out with solid state drives and this
is very easy to do i'm going to clone the drives
i'm also going to show you the cloning system that i use super cheap
super easy don't forget to unplug your computer
don't forget to discharge all static this is the cloner
copier duplicator that i'm using it's a sabrent usb
3 stand alone these are the bays this is a two bay you can put the source
disk and the a side and the receiving the new disk in the b
side the connections are identical this thing is so
easy to use we're gonna do it right here this is what i'm replacing it with the
new ultra 3d ssds by sandisk and these are two
terabyte systems important to know also back up
your operating system on a thumb drive use your utilities
copy that have that on standby everything bad
could happen now you could connect this to your computer we're not doing it
we're doing it disconnected from the computer as a standalone duplicator
all you have to do is connect the power adapter to the back of the dock
connect the power adapter to a power outlet uses 110
and then insert your source hard drive to the hard disk
bay a this thing holds the 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch hard disk drives
or an ssd i like to put rubber bands on the cords
when i take them off because i want to make sure to use the same plugs when i
put the new drive in they use the exact same plugs
easy to do i also put down a white sheet of paper there so that when i take these
screws out if they fall down they don't go down
through my rack system and i don't lose them
easy to keep stuff all in order there so this
first two terabyte drive that i'm pulling out
is screwed to the side panel there so we just take that out
also you need to have screws for your new solid state drives
there they are leave them on the sheet of paper they will not be reused because
they don't fit the solid state drive always unplug
ground yourself prevent static don't play games here this is the old drive
this thing was making noise clicking noises and worrying sounds that made me
think it was about to die on me so this is a very good time to clone it
when you clone a disk every single piece of data that's on it will go to
your brand new drive also don't forget that your new solid
state drive or whatever it is that you're putting that on
has to have an equal or greater capacity than the source drive
a little yellow sticky on there that says remove that first
here's a close-up of my stuff with the rubber bands holding it together these
are the specs on that sandisk this is supposed to be a super fast
system don't touch these once you pull that sticker off it's
going to go into your target hard drive into the b side
and remember again the capacity has to be equal to or larger
than the source disk you're going to get an exact clone this thing is going to
behave exactly like the disk that you pulled
out the only difference is going to be at solid state no moving parts no noises
and it's going to save energy also so step by step again going by the
instructions press the power switch to on there you go
that's a good sound you should hear that drive winding up that way
see blue lights on both sides that means it's registering
both of those drives you should get a blue light on
a and b also a green light on top shows that the power is going to the
drives then hold down the offline clone button
because that's what we're doing and release
when you see a blue led illuminate and the status led
indicator so i'm going to push and hold this down there's only one button on the
front
there's the blue light now while that blue light is
on we're gonna have to click really fast the offline clone button
if you do it after the blue light is on you won't get anything
so get the blue light up there then hit it again you hear it wind up
listen to how noisy that disc is that bothers me
i don't want to lose all my data and i back everything up but we're talking
about a seven year old computer system here
now as it goes through the progress it has uh each blue light will come on they
flash a little bit they go solid that means that
percentage is done what's really important there is all the
way to the right we want to see how long this is going to take
this has a little over a terabyte of data on it so this should take a long
time there it is it's cloning
a clone as i mentioned before is an exact duplicate four
hours later and it's done now i don't know if it finished at 3
hours and 45 minutes i was out doing other things but i did notice that this
subrent unit is missing the third led light so
thank goodness the fourth one worked turn everything off do not pull these
drives while that thing is on or has power to it
and the ssd is what's going into the computer
and for those of you again who need to know this is a dell xps 8700
running windows 10 and it's a 64-bit system
now i'm just going to lay it in here i don't want to put the screws in yet
because i want to do a test stop turn this thing on see what's going on
make sure everything's running and good before you go to the trouble yep there
the screen came up everything ran good i didn't want to
show you my home screen there and we did this twice so i
replaced two two terabyte barracuda ck units and i
have two solid state sandisk drives in their
place and now they're screwed in because they worked
this thing is running totally silent now also close-up of the screws
you need the smaller screws for your ssds then you had for the hard disk
drives no moving parts also while it was out
i took it outside and blew out all the dust because let me tell you there was a
lot of build up in there and uh the heat sink there with a fan on
it all that stuff blow the dust out while you have the
opportunity to clean it up be very careful again ground it especially when
you're blowing air across it you could create static
and i put a zip tie in here to control some of the cables
that's pretty much it start to finish super easy look how clean everything is
now i'm going to get a lot of years out of this
seven-year-old dell it's going to run like new that's when it was made 2013.
and i hope you enjoy this thanks for watching get yourself a new computer
by replacing those hard disk drives with ssds