[Blogging Intensifies]

Technology, Projects, Linux, Coding, Internet of Things, Music, Books, Life...

  • About

A Second Hard Drive in My Aspire E 15

April 19, 2019

Recently I purchased an SSD for my wife’s Thinkpad. It wasn’t a big one, 256 gig, but her laptop is a little slow all around and the bottleneck seems to be mostly in the drive, which I am pretty sure is still old school spinning platters.

Unfortunately, the drive in her laptop is 320 Gb, so I couldn’t straight clone the drives. I could have done some partition size adjustments and made it work but she was already fussing and worrying I was going to lose some of her files so I decided I’d just wait and get a larger one later.

I’d already planned to pick up a second one of these drives to add to my Laptop. The main drive is one of those funky newer styles that’s basically a circuit board, but it has an empty bay for a laptop drive. I stuck the new SSD in and went about using it. Nothing hard here at all.

To my surprise, the drive vanished a week or so later. Thankfully I didn’t stick it in my wife’s laptop, it was apparently bad. Or was it?

Turns out that because the drive is a little on the small size, even for a 2.5″ drive, and there isn’t any mechanism inside the laptop to secure the drive itself, it ended up coming lose and losing it’s connection.

It’s probably not the cleanest fix, but I stripped off a half a sheet of paper and accordion folded it and slipped it in between the drive and the Laptop chassis. This applies pressure to the drive, holding it in place.

I haven’t had any trouble with the drive since. Still it’s kind of a crummy design.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)

Related

Posted in: Devices, Hardware Tagged: Acer Aspire E15, Laptop
Twitter LinkedIn email
Instagram Instagram Instagram
GitHub
JoshMiller.net
Lameazoid.com

Categories

  • ▼Devices (24)
    • Android (4)
    • PCs (6)
    • Synology NAS (3)
    • Windows Phone (4)
  • ►Lifestyle (18)
    • Books (4)
    • Language (1)
    • Music (10)
    • Organizing (1)
  • ►Maker (66)
    • Arduino (8)
    • CHIP (5)
    • ►Coding (26)
      • Advent of Code 2020 (12)
    • Hardware (1)
    • Home Security (2)
    • My DIY Projects (3)
    • Non-Tech (2)
    • Raspberry Pi (9)
    • The Basement (6)
    • The Cloud (3)
  • ►Opinion/Editorial (12)
    • Copyright and You (3)
    • Privacy (3)
    • Social Media (4)
  • ►OS (4)
    • Linux & Open Source (2)
    • Windows (2)
  • Site News (2)
  • ►Technology (6)
    • Security (1)
  • ▼What I Use (10)
    • Hardware (3)
    • Photography (2)
    • Software (5)

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 610 other subscribers

Hosted on…


Help support hosting with our referral link!

Copyright © 2021 [Blogging Intensifies].

Me WordPress Theme by themehall.com

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.