Storage Solutions Adding SSD to Lenovo G5080 along with primary HDD

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Nolasco

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I've had the Lenovo G5080 for a couple of years and feel its gotten sluggish off late. I'd like to add in an SSD to boot off and have the primary 1TB hard disk for storage. What would be the best way to go about it? Should I replace the optical drive bay with a HDD Caddy and install the SDD in the caddy or replace the HDD with the SSD and then place the HDD in the caddy?

What would be the best way to close the SSD from the HDD? I'm looking at getting a 250GB SSD. Would it make sense to get it from US with the Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales currently on as I have a friend coming from US next week or better to pick up one from Amazon along with warranty? Or are the used ones available on ebay good enough?

This is the particular laptop I currently have.
https://www.flipkart.com/lenovo-g50...nt=click&cmpid=email_order_order_notification
 
vyral_143 said:
1. SSD in place of HDD and HDD in optical drive caddy
2. You can get SSD from USA if you are getting great deal. Right now in India Samsung 850 EVO 250GB is for ₹6750 on onlyssd.com
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1. Whats the best way to clone the internal HDD onto the SSD if replacing the HDD with the SSD? First place the SSD into the optical drive caddy, clone and then switch them? Will I have to change any boot settings?
Any suggestions on a good ODD caddy as there seem to be quite a few different ones available.

2. There doesnt seem to be much difference in pricing for the 850 Evo - US pricing is 90USD which is about 6k. Not really worth saving 700 and losing out on the 5 year warranty. Would the WD Blue, Sandisk Plus or Crucial MX300 make sense at 69USD, 75USD and 82USD respectively? I use the laptop for very basic stuff so do not need the best possible performance. Alternatively, would the used SSDs on ebay as per links below make sense for general use? With coupons they come to around 3-4k.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXDQX3...9239-059d0d315fd5&ie=UTF8&qid=1511783063&sr=3

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F9G43W...9239-059d0d315fd5&ie=UTF8&qid=1511783063&sr=2

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX30...118&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=crucial+mx300&psc=1

Im assuming if I go for any of the above, I'll lose out on warranty. Doubt any SSD manufacturer has intl warranty, do they?

The ones on Ebay I noticed were these. Do any of these make sense with a further 10% discount?

https://www.ebay.in/itm/Samsung-256GB-SSD-Solid-State-Drive-6Gbps-SATA-III-Ultraslim-2-5-Hard-Drive/272881832619?hash=item3f890652ab:g:zaYAAOSw47dZ3JXA

https://www.ebay.in/itm/Intel-180-G...691104?hash=item41ce0ad6e0:g:~QIAAOSw44BYHIl2

https://www.ebay.in/itm/Intel-Pro-1...175815?hash=item23934d5b87:g:YoMAAOSwg8taB7y9

https://www.ebay.in/itm/MICRON-M600...186107?hash=item2391747dfb:g:SogAAOSwe51Z9b2f

https://www.ebay.in/itm/Micron-256G...984364?hash=item2845dfc3ac:g:TsEAAOSw5dlaA9fo
 
Nolasco said:
Whats the best way to clone the internal HDD onto the SSD if replacing the HDD with the SSD? First place the SSD into the optical drive caddy, clone and then switch them? Will I have to change any boot settings?
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You can use EaseUS Todo Backup. I had used it last year during replacing HDD with SSD in my laptop - on first day of laptop :D. If you have casing for HDD, use it to connect to USB port and that software can clone selected partitions from your existing SSD. If not, caddy way is okay too. For boot, just verify in BIOS if first priority is to SSD after you install it. Also note that your existing HDD might have boot paritions, you need to take care of them. In my case, I only have 250GB SSD in laptop and 1TB HDD which came with it is in casing.

I would suggest to stick to Samsung 850 EVO. It's most popular SSD around. I would suggest against used SSD as they would be based on older controllers which may have some known issues and fixed in next iterations. IIRC, Sandisk provides international warranty. WD provides regional warranty on HDD where you could RMA it once in a year. Neither sure about current status nor about its validity on SSD. Also US prices which you have mentioned, factor in taxes which vary from state to state. E.g. California has 10% tax.
 
Oh, in that case it doesnt make sense to get it from the US. Adding in the taxes, the pricing is almost the same and without being sure about the warranty either.
Will wait for some sale on Amazon / Flipkart and pick up the Evo or similar here itself.

If anyone has any info on the used drives, please let me know.
 
I picked up the 250Gb 850 Evo today on the flipkart sale for the equivalent of 5.8k (10% Festive pass offer, 10% hdfc cards, and 10x reward points on HDFC Regalia).

Now I was wondering if I could clone the data off the laptop hard drive by connecting both the laptop hdd and the ssd to my desktop? I think 250gb should be sufficient for me on the laptop so can avoid getting the optical drive bay or usb hdd enclosure if this is possible and can then use the hard disk as additional storage in the desktop.
 
Nolasco said:
I picked up the 250Gb 850 Evo today on the flipkart sale for the equivalent of 5.8k (10% Festive pass offer, 10% hdfc cards, and 10x reward points on HDFC Regalia).

Now I was wondering if I could clone the data off the laptop hard drive by connecting both the laptop hdd and the ssd to my desktop? I think 250gb should be sufficient for me on the laptop so can avoid getting the optical drive bay or usb hdd enclosure if this is possible and can then use the hard disk as additional storage in the desktop.
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Use Samsung Wizard that you can get with the SSD. Also ensure that you dont get AM series SSD.
 
Thanks Vivek! I've ordered an optical bay caddy so will clone it on the laptop itself. Now suppose I want to dualboot both Win 10 and Ubuntu, how do I go about doing it?
First clone the hard disk to the ssd, then resize the ssd and make an additional partition for Ubuntu and install it onto that partition? Or do I format the ssd first into two partitions, clone the hdd to first partition and then ubuntu onto the second?
 
Nolasco said:
Thanks Vivek! I've ordered an optical bay caddy so will clone it on the laptop itself. Now suppose I want to dualboot both Win 10 and Ubuntu, how do I go about doing it?
First clone the hard disk to the ssd, then resize the ssd and make an additional partition for Ubuntu and install it onto that partition? Or do I format the ssd first into two partitions, clone the hdd to first partition and then ubuntu onto the second?
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First clone W10, and ensure that is working. With that done, its a simple job of doing dual partition with the help of the many internet guides.
 
@Nolasco - Did the upgrade work for you? Tried upgrading the same one my cousin has and the drive in the caddy is missing most of the time. Could never get it to boot. Tried 2 caddys and both had the same issue.
 
Yes mine works perfectly. Ordered the storite caddy on amazon and while it's quite a tight fit it works well and the hard disk is detected every time. I put the ssd in place of the primary hard disk though so it boots off the ssd and the hdd is in the caddy as additional storage.
 
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