Increasing Productivity With The Right Hardware
Recently i upgraded my laptop to increase the productivity and to make it butterSmooth to work on even with the most demanding applications.
so here is what i did:
1) New High Speed Solid State Hard Drive
2) Increased RAM.
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why SSD???
CPUs and GPUs thrive on being fed massive amounts of data in parallel, our hard drives arenโt so appreciative of our multitasking demands. And this is where SSDs truly shine.
SSDโs have high Read/Write speeds, which just makes the FILE I/O operations lightning fast.
It also helps in best utilization of your CPU, as it quenches the CPUโs thirst for data to be processed.
Why RAM??
I used to experience that if you run a grails application and open few instances of IDEA in your 64bit system, it used to go on swap, hence a couple of Gigs of extra RAM will not harm .. ๐
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Hardware Aquired:
1) OCZ Vertex 2 40GB SSD โ Rs.5000/-
2) 4GB DDR-3 Kingston Laptop RAM: Rs.1300/-
3) 2.5โณ External SATA Casing: Rs.200/-
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Installation:
its Petty simple, Just 2 steps procedure.
1) Remove the old Ram and HDD
2) Install the new Ones.. ๐
And the Extracted 500GB HDD from my Laptop is converted into an External USB 500GB HDD using the 2.5โณ HDD Casing. Hurrayโฆ ๐
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The Exact Steps are as follows:
1) Open the Laptop Back Cover
2) Remove HDD mounting screws
3) Remove OLD HDD
4) install the new SSD
5) Remove one existing 2GB RAM if no empty RAM slot present
6) Install new 4GB Ram
7) Close the Lid
8) All Done.. install requires OS/Softwares to your new SSD
Here are the illustrations:
- The SSD Packing
- SSD Unboxed/Content
- The SSD Top View
- The SSD Bottom View
- Take Out the Battery before start
- Back RAM/HDD Cover Opened
- Unscrew HDD Mount
- Remove Old HDD
- Installed New SSD
- Remove Old Ram to free a Slot
- RAM Removed
- RAM Placed in Empty Socket
- Put the Lid Back.. ๐
- 2.5โณ SATA Casing
- Contents of SATA Casing Pack
- Open The Casing Remove SATA-USB Bridge
- Put HDD and Bridge in Metal Casing
- close the Casing and Screw It.
- A Leather pouch for the HDD
- The Old Removed HDD is now Ready as an External HDD ๐
- The SSD Sticker On The Laptop. ๐
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P.S: My Laptop runs Like its been blessed with the alien technology.. ๐
Regards
Kushal Likhi