It’s not mandatory, but foregoing the bezel will look ugly and will make it a little more work when you want to pull the SSD from the laptop.Īlmost every laptop optical drive follows an industry spec-with a different plastic bezel attached to it. The most difficult part in all of this may be removing the bezel from the optical drive to place on your SSD. You’ll need to unscrew the two screws on the metal bracket and move it to the hard drive caddy (bottom).ĥ. The Acer notebook we are upgrading has a single plastic nub on the right, meaning it can accept faster x4 PCIe drives (which we verified) as well as SATA drives. These days, two notches usually indicate the drive is SATA, but you should still verify before making a purchase. The WD Blue SATA SSD we used actually has both M- and B-key notches. A B key means it can operate at up to x2 PCIe or in SATA an M key means it can operate at up to x4 PCIe or SATA. Certain M.2 drives have a single notch on either the right side or left side of the module, which indicates a B- or M-key drive, respectively. Note the notches on the SSD and the corresponding nub/s in the slot. That’s a crazy amount of money for one screw, but unless you’re willing to A-Team it with Duct tape and a more generic machine screw, this might be the easiest way.Ĥ. The SSD slots into a roughly 1-inch wide opening. If your unit doesn’t have one, you can get one on Amazon for less than $10. Our laptop came with the mount and screw in place, and most should, but we have heard of a laptop missing the mount and screw.
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