So I finally decided it is time to stop being lazy and get an SSD.. open my PC and take a day to set it up and throw my windows on it.. It's been a year since I started procrastinating and since Friday is the new Path of Exile league start, I wanted the little quality of life that the SSD gives to gaming.
Since I still don't have a steady job I went for a fairly cheap option for this.. I have no idea why I was left with the impression that the SSD costs three times more than it does and it got me pretty surprised when I went on amazon to check the price up. For only £35 I got this SanDisk 120GB SSD and it arrived on the very next day.
Excited about it I opened my computer and was blown by the amount of dust that was there.. Had to clean that a long time ago! Don't be like me and clean your computers regularly.. My filters around the box are all very hidden and I don't usually see much dust through the window on the side of the box.. when I opened it up though it was a totally different story..
Now I cleaned it up and it was time to attach the SSD to one of the two slots that my tower box had and there I was presented with my first problem.. I had no spare screws.. So I rushed to our local hardware store only to find they don't sell that size either. Good thing I have Prime on my Amazon and the screws arrived on the next day.
I needed 4 screws for the attachment part but the smallest pack I could buy had 50 in it. I guess I'll never run out of spares again!
After I rummaged through the spare cables around the machine I found the one connection to the power supply and the other to the motherboard. (Was lucky I had the spare cables for the motherboard in the box.. couldn't bare ordering that and having to take apart my PC for the third time this week.) So this is how it looks inside of the box in the SSD slot.
Finally I had to make my PC recognise it and set it as a drive. Going to clone my windows using Macrum Reflect next and move it to my SSD drive so I can boot my computer through it.
Have you ever installed your own Hardware on your PC? Or maybe built your own computer? I build my first PC almost two years ago and find it quite interesting and exciting! Now I'm ready for some more gaming!
