TBT 4 - Dell E7440 mSATA SSD and HDD installation + thermal paste
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ม.ค. 2020
- The Broken Tech Episode 4
In this episode I "quickly" installed an mSATA SSD and an additional HDD, as well as reapplied thermal paste to my Dell Latitude E7440.
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Dell Latitude E7440
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great video
Thanks!
Thanks for the upgrade vid on this old reliable laptop. After this great upgrade, I was considering upgrading from a single 8GB 2xR8 SODIMM to add a second and curious what the resulting performance might be. A cool video would be if you did some real-world performance testing with both SODIMMs and a single SODIMM. Anyway, thanks for this info about the ability to swap out the WWAN card for an mSATA drive !
You're very welcome. I'm glad you found the video helpful.
I would consider some testing, but if you have a single 8GB stick in there now, I pretty much can't recommend against adding more if you think you could use it. Used on eBay you're looking at about $15 and new on Amazon the highest seems to be about $45. Once the upgrades get down to the cost of a pizza, it's hard to justify against them even if the improvements are negligible in 95% of cases (which I don't know for sure and am just saying as an example).
Since I use mine for video work, I use all the RAM it can take.
@@TheBrokenLife it's used just for Virtual DJ and 8GB is more than ample RAM for that purpose. What I was curious about was if it improves actual CPU/RAM number crunching performance at all, because with the new STEMS feature of VDJ 2021, pre-processing audio tracks to separate out the individual instruments takes a loooong time. If tossing another stick in can improve track processing performance 15-20% then I'd do it, but less than that, I probably need to just bite the bullet and buy a new system. I can't find anything comparing the 4th-gen mobile Intel systems on dual-rank single-channel vs dual-rank (or even single-rank) dual-channel mode. Regardless, love the dual storage option now, so thanks !
@@fiveangle That's such a specific task that even if I could draw a conclusion in either direction, I wouldn't be able to know that it would apply for you.
You could always take the simple approach and open a task manager and watch the performance tab while those activities are processing? I suspect it's more CPU limited than anything.
@@TheBrokenLife haha, it's a "specific task" only in that I cited what I'm doing, but the general improvement in task completion time in dual-channel vs single-channel for desktop chipsets is well known so this isn't related only to virtual dj. "CPU-limited" includes any bottleneck in moving the operations to-from main memory. Unless a CPU is running a synthetic cache-resident operation like "time to run a goggleprime" then it's gotta move that data in and out to somewhere, and that's all the reason for opting for dual vs single channel memory. "CPU limited" is really synonymous with "CPU-and-memory-IO-limited."
I'll probably just buy the memory and check general performance for Intel 4th gen mobile myself. If it doesn't improve, at least should be easier to sell with 16gb :)
@@fiveangle Cool. Good luck with it!
thanks alot
You're very welcome!
Nice...sir
Thanks!
Until now this is the powerful ultrabook which could do gaming
Dude thanks for the heart . Im proud I got one from you
I'm honored you took the time to leave a comment! :)
Thanks for the video! Really helpful. By the way, below the SATA interface for the SSD, isn't there a mSATA interface also?
Thanks!
Can you point to a time stamp in the video I can review to see what you're talking about? As luck would have it, my 7440 is sitting right here (and is due for an internal dusting) so I popped the back off of it again, removed both drives (the SSD and the HDD I installed in it), and I didn't see any extra connectors.
@@TheBrokenLife Sorry! My bad. Actually, some model comes with MSATA SSD that was installed in the 2.5" bay using adapter. In that case, you can have 2 MSATA drives in the laptop.
@@stanlaus3883 Hummm... That's pretty cool to know. I wonder if there's an adapter available for mine? I've also seen people put mSATA devices in the WAN slot.
They use something like this.
@@stanlaus3883 I didn't get a link if you had intended to attach one.
Can you install 2 different OS on both HDD and SSD? Like install windows on HDD and linux on SSD
Probably, but I think it would be easier to just dual boot one drive for that purpose. Otherwise you'd have to go into the bios and manually change the boot disk every time you wanted to change over.
yeah I'm dualbooting windows and mac on this computer
Can you tell me the minimum speciation of ssd for latitude e7440?
Hello, can you help me decide which one to choose from Dell 7440 and Hp 840 G2?
I don't know anything about the HP. At this point, I probably wouldn't suggest anything this old.
Hey.. I know I’m late, but I have a question..
Is it OK if for example I put in this laptop (E7440) one stick of 4GB of ram and the other a stick of 8GB, and that they are not the same brand? (matching)
In most cases, that should be fine.
@@TheBrokenLife how much ssd we can add to Dell latitude e7440 i5 4 gen 4gb ram 500gb hdd
@@mdshoeb9467 I have a 1TB SSD and 2TB HDD in mine. I've never tried more.
how to write the letter @ on the LATITUDE E7440 ?
Shift + 2. This is the same as every north-American keyboard I've ever used. If your 7440 is from a different region it may be different.
Got to be said, some of the Inspiron range were made so well - not from a keyboard tapping user point of view, but for getting to the main stuff ...
Oh SO easy.
My other computer is an Emachines e430.
It's horrible
The old E series Dell laptops are excellent machines. I wish they would build them like that again, but I think those days are behind us.
eMachines... For a very, very, brief period of time I had a tangential role in their warranty service. Yikes.
@@TheBrokenLife sadly, it's other technical advancement that changed the game... We used to need a 2.5 inch HDD bay... We used to need a bay big enough to have a CD/BLU ray ROM drive.
Both of these things are now, due to MSATA, m3 and every type of compact solid state drive you can think of, obsolete.
So, the chassis no longer needs to have the space for them.
The need for laptops to be these featherweight machines made out of 90% plastic, the screen and the weight of the screws using a further 8% of the mass... Has become almost the agreed standard.
The need for them to be bullet proof has also gone, as they're now regarded as temporary systems from both an OS and a physical POV.
@@parasiteunit I can deal with most of that. I would just like one engineered well enough that a simple dusting isn't a 3 hour ordeal. You can find a video on my channel of me dusting out a ZBook and the bottom plate of that thing was held on with like 17 screws or something insane. It would have actually been a cost reduction to design it like my old E series with a single screw and a slightly more complicated bottom panel.
I would also like to see the return of actual docks and not Thunderbolt port replicators. That comes at a weight and cost penalty though so I'm positive that is gone forever. I just find the actual docks to be so much easier to deal with and more consistent in operation.
@@TheBrokenLife oh yeah, don't get me wrong - there's been issues with over engineering too....
The old Atari ST - just to get to the memory to ensure they were housed okay if it started going AWOL...
Oh man, more screws than a brothel!
but yeah - a laptop that used light materials *and* easy to service...
Oddly enough, just did a strip down of a Vostro 3300. Compared to the E6410... Getting to anything, aside from memory and the HD bay....
Layer after layer urrg!
@@parasiteunit "Urrg", indeed. I specifically sought out the E6410 after doing a few other pretty involved repairs on other laptops and I swore them off for life. My E7440 is the closest I get to a modern laptop and I'm hoping it has about 10 more years in it for just general computery things. I'm kinda hoping after that I won't have a use for a laptop anymore. We shall see!
Is this keyboard backlit?
Yes, but not all of them are.
hello friend then to dell latitude e7440 can i install a 256gb msata disk
Yes, a 256GB drive should work fine.
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@@TheBrokenLife Hello friend, you know I got the ssd but I do not know how to configure it in the bios, could you help me to install the OS in the ssd please
@@rpccomputacioneinformatica3993 hola, sabes yo también quiero poner una msata a la dell, como te ha ido va mejor la laptop?
Will SSD Kingston mSATA UV500 480GB do for upgrade?
I believe so!
@@TheBrokenLife Hahahahha i hope so aswell cause i just ordered it :p
@@tom4ever83 Good luck with it!
@@TheBrokenLife Should i put the new ssd that i want as primary in the ssd adapter the factory one is or should i put it in the empty WWAN slot?
@@tom4ever83 I'd do it as I did in the video.
Is msata 2260?
No. It's its' own thing. It's not M.2.
I did another video comparing them both. I think I just called it: mSATA vs. M.2 What's the difference?
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surely that hole is a case cover hole!
What hole, where?
Hi. I installed a Msata to TF card reader in WWAN slot. Fits good, pops up and down good like ram does. I can't get Bios or Windows 10 to find it. I even done I new install of Windows 10. Any advice? Thanks.
Btw I had a TF card formatted with files on it in reader all the time. Dell E6540.
Will it boot with an mSATA drive in the WWAN slot?
@@TheBrokenLife sorry don't know.
@@BitsOfTruth That would be the first thing to check. Or, if you have another machine with a WWAN slot you can see if it recognizes your card reader.
@@TheBrokenLife oh. I thought maybe a driver or something. Thanks.
@@BitsOfTruth Possibly? I've never used one of those adapters so I don't know for sure, but I normally like to rule out mechanical malfunction as quickly as possible. If it were to work in one, but not the other, you know you likely have a mechanical issue.
Tell me this size mSata? Thanks you
1TB. I have edited the video description to add links to the materials and products I used.
Maxwelhse is this 2242 or 2260 ?
@@mccsbmt I could be wrong, but I believe you're confusing mSATA for M.2. The only mSATA size I'm aware of it 30mm wide x 50.95mm long. M.2 drives are 22mm wide and come in a range of lengths (30, 42, 60, 80, and 110).
I don't believe the E7440 supports M.2, only mSATA.
Maxwelhse i'm vietnamese, my english is not good!! I searched at google and thought m2 had sata and pcie standards. I thought msata and m2 sata were the same, it was a mistake. thanks for your support 😄
@@mccsbmt Happy to help!
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I have heard of using parts/brake clean on computer components, Here is a video on how to do it th-cam.com/video/c-qY59VrVS4/w-d-xo.html
I have seen this guy use enough cleaner for it to drip off the pc part he was cleaning.
Yeah... Not something I feel the most comfortable with most of the time and until just then, having started building PCs around 1994, I've never needed to. I skipped through that video and it doesn't really look like he _needed_ to either. I'm not sure what goal he was trying to achieve by doing so, but, I did just skim.
To each their own and all of that, but I wanted to make sure it was something I personally am not suggesting to my viewers since I'm not comfortable doing it myself. I'd never ask or suggest any of you to do anything I wouldn't, or haven't, done.
That said, dousing electronics with isopropyl alcohol has never effected anything I've ever worked on and would have given him the same result he was after (which just looked like deep dust removal?). I've been doing that for years and years...