For someone with VERY little experience with electronics, but some minimal soldering/electrical experience how risky is it to try to replace the SSD myself. I have the 64gb and I desperately want to upgrade it to a 1TB. I have no one to help me and I’m terrified of breaking my SD. It looks like I can do it from videos and reading, but from life experience videos and such make things look perfect each step.
With black Friday upcoming I feel that if there’s a sale on the 1TB SSD I “NEED” to do it now or just keep on waiting.
The SD is the first of any PC I’ve used for gaming and doing any upgrades on a PC.
It’s very easy, the scariest part is taking the backplate off.
Just watch as many videos as humanly possible on the process. Take the advice of the YouTubers that are showing you how to get those screws out.
I would also recommend you watch mine because I don’t cut out the interesting parts. If I struggled with something? I show it and don’t cut it out to make a Goldilocks video. If you can get through these videos and not feel like you’re squirming around too much? I would recommend doing it.
You could post on your local facebook group or Craigslist, shit, I bet a pc repair shop would even do it for $20. Even if they’ve never seen or heard of a deck before, they could see from a 5 minute video it’s a quick job
I’ve called local places and they are unable to do to policy. I’m not willing to go to a strangers home while they do it for me 😅 or trust a stranger to meet me up and give it back. I like the idea of people helping each other out so much but people suck too much.
Soldering isn’t necessary at all with an SSD swap. That’s more if you wanna be a madlad and upgrade the RAM and/or wifi chip.
It’s really simple assuming you know how to remove screws without stripping them (ie use the right size screwbit, apply gentle constant pressure instead of tons of force right off the bat), etc.
The risk is really what you make of it. If your hand slips and punctures the battery? Suddenly you have a lithium battery fire in your workspace. If you have steady hands and you’re careful, and you follow the instructions re draining the battery and putting into battery storage mode? You’re golden. The battery is nowhere near the SSD, so most folks will be fine. The biggest risk is pinching the fan cord beneath the heat shield or tearing the SSD aluminum sleeve if you’re not gentle with your tweezers.