Can you upgrade the hard drive to a larger solid state?
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The Dell Support website (support.dell.com) has service manuals for all its laptops (downloadable for free). You can just download the manual for this one. That will give you step-by-step instructions on how to replace the hard drive. Just buy a replacement drive, any size you want, and install it with the instructions in the manual.
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I don't know the answer, I would suggest Dell should answer that. Or look for a model that has native solid state drive.
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You can but, I don't know if you'll see improved I/O. I'm not sure what the SATA interface is to the drive. If it's an older generation you may not see improved throughput. Chances are you will see improved I/O. Just not sure how much.
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I believe it is possible, check the dell site for possibilities and "sizes" then you could shop around for good price/reliability, then talk w/your computer person for help in installing....
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No. You can unplug the drive and put it anywhere a USB port exists. This could be a USB port connected to a router or a router with USB ports. In Windows, you will still need to see the drive, whether as a local drive (My Computer) or a shared network drive (My Network). However, to upgrade the system updates, you need to be connected to a computer.
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No. You would want to look for a SATA III SSD (Solid State Drive) if you want to upgrade your SL410 to solid state. Be happy, they are cheaper than the mSATA or m.2-SATA!
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I dont know what you mean by upgrade, but it comes with a ssd, sata cable 3.5 expansion a usb enclose and a install cd
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Depends. You can replace the Hdd, with a ssd, or you can add up to two msata drives and leave the Hdd. I replaced the Hdd with a ssd, and added a msata drive.
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yes, put the hard drive in an external enclosure to convert it into an external hard drive
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Yes as long as you don't have more data on your drive than the SSD capacity.
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You should be able to download and use the free software "Seagate DiscWizard" from the Seagate website. I know you can usually clone data from a current hard drive to a new hard drive as long as the new hard drive is larger than the current hard drive.
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It can be downloaded online through the system. Just put in the new hard drive and it'll walk you through the rest.
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your best bet is to use a solid state drive it will be a lot faster than a 10K hard drive & has no moving parts. It will only take a SATA II.
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No. New drives have to be equal to or larger than the largest installed drive.
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If the reason you are making the change from the 1TB drive is to go to solid state, you should have no problem making the change to the 500 GB SSD. I bought the 500 SSD to hold only my operating system and the files that go with the default C drive. All programs and other files go to a different drive or drives. Hope this helps.
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You should be able to as long as you do not exceed the capacity of the drive. Please see my other review as to backup. DO NOT use the Seagate backup utility that comes with the drive as it fails to back up many of the most important informational files in Windows installs. Use a dedicated 3rd party backup software (I use Macrium Reflect) and dump the garbage software provide by Seagate.
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Yes you can. But spend the extra and get SSD drive. It is soooo much faster and does not have a problem with being bounced around.
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Yes there is plenty of space for an additional drive. As long as the Solid State Drive is SATA you should be fine.
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Yes, it can be upgraded. There is a second SSD slot in my NP930. I added a 512GB M.2 SATA SSD.
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Sure, actually that is what I'm doing with my old HDD. You can do it with your SSD.