I replaced the hard disk of the mobile notebook PC "Fujitsu LIFEBOOK SH90 / M" with a battery that I just bought with an SSD, so I will report it with photos for the next step.
I'm sorry if it's different because I have a personality that I haven't investigated enough, but it seems that there was no SSD replacement report with the same model number at the time of purchase at the end of last year.
But, well, I had a feeling that I could probably go, so this time he went to SSD replacement with a human pillar spirit.
This time I used a custom-made model limited to the WEB.
Therefore, strictly speaking, the model numbers are "WS2 / M" and "WS1 / M" instead of "LIFEBOOK SH90 / M", but the basic structure should be the same.
Instead of a "hybrid HDD" that combines a large-capacity HDD and an SSD for small-capacity cache, we chose an inexpensive and simple HDD model on the premise of SSD replacement, and other than the LCD with a touch panel, we made it almost the minimum configuration.
At that time, a replacement battery gift campaign was in progress, but it seems that it has ended now.
Select "Minimum Support", which charges for telephone support, and use a 20% off coupon for 5,000 yen off, and the payment will be 132,440 yen.
It's quite a luxury item from my point of view, but I'd like to get hungry for this machine I just bought.
Before that, since the recovery disk of this PC is "only" in the recovery area of the hard disk, DVD version recovery from "FUJITSU-Backup Navi"-> "Management tab"-> "Create recovery disk set" on Windows. Let's make a disc.
With this recovery disc, you can restore to the state at the time of purchase even from a blank SSD / HDD.
I remember that it took almost half a day to create recovery discs, which required 6 blank DVDs. If it's a hassle, you can buy it from Fujitsu for 5,000 yen, but honestly, it's a playful height, so you should do your best to make it yourself.
Let's open the contents now.
First, turn the PC over, remove the battery pack, empty the drive bay, and open the memory slot cover.
Remove the screws (10 in total) in the red frame in the figure below. Be careful as there are screws in the memory slot.
Carefully open the bottom cover. It may be easy to open from the front SD card slot. There was no place on the cover side that was connected by a flexible cable.
The silver box in the lower right is the built-in HDD.
HGST Travelstar Z5K500-500 5400rpm. It had his 2.5 inch, 7mm thick SATA HDD on it. While some models use PCIe M.2 SSD, it seems to be a loose configuration, but thanks to it, it is easy to replace.
Take out the HDD wrapped in a plastic plate with shock absorbing rubber ...
Replace it with the SSD.
The SSD used for the replacement was "CSSD-S6T256NHG5Q" made by CFD.
I was at a loss with his 3bit MLC SSD from Samsung, which is famous for its speed and cheapness, but I couldn't help but worry about its lifespan. I don't want to do this kind of work for a while.
Install the SSD in the original location where the HDD was.
Fill the bottom cover, battery, memory slot cover, and drive bay and tighten the screws again to complete.
That was all the hardware work.
After disassembling it, I was impressed with the high maintainability of this case, and at the same time, I packed the features such as battery replacement, memory expansion, drive bay, analog RGB terminal, gigabit wired LAN into this weight and thickness. I understand how difficult it is.
Regarding the recovery of the Windows environment in question, although there was a way to copy the entire drive image from the HDD before replacement, there were various concerns and it was immediately after purchase, so recover from the genuine recovery disc. I made it.
If you are reading this article, you don't need a detailed explanation, so let's just keep the points.
First of all, when I tried to recover to his SSD with a blank sky, I got the error "This function cannot be used because of the unsupported partition configuration".
In this case, it was OK if you created a partition from "Utility"-> "Area setting" of "Troubleshooting navigation disk".
After that, I was able to recover without any problems using regular recovery methods.
This time, I recovered to a 256GB SSD with sufficient capacity, but if you do this work, the partition of the disk will be roughly divided into 3 "C drive + D drive + recovery area", so 128GB or less, which is not in the customized model I don't know if recovery to SSD is possible. (Although the capacity is sufficient, I am a little worried if we are doing strange error checking.)
Finally, crush the D drive and recovery area, partition into one huge C drive by the method in this article, uninstall the pre-installed garbage app from one end and you're done.
It's a strange story to be impressed again because it is a machine that I bought on the premise that it will be converted to SSD from Hana, but after all I can not return to the HDD machine anymore.
I also have a notebook PC equipped with SSD other than this, and I have experienced that every movement is sharp with SSD, but I wonder if it is because of this model with Haswell installed, this time the experience speed improvement Feeled particularly big.
Excuse me, but if you assume Haswell + "power saving mode" operation, maybe because the CPU usage rate does not increase so much, the storage is not usable unless he is SSD. I don't even have a feeling that it's there.
After that, if you use SSD, the battery life will be improved. That is also an advantage.
For light work that you want to enter text, 90% of the battery remains and the remaining usage time is 11 hours or more, so it is rough, so I think that you can take it out with confidence even if it is not fully charged. In fact, I haven't experienced the fact that the battery has run out after using it for a day.
I've never seen the battery capacity drop below 40% even after touching it at home for a whole day.
If you have enough battery power, you can brighten the backlight without worrying about the battery even when the screen feels dark, and if you need performance, switch to "balance mode" instead of "power saving mode". .. It also makes me feel luxurious.
If you buy a replacement battery, you can easily replace the battery, although it takes some getting used to, so if it's about 1 night and 2 days, you should go without an AC adapter. I also feel like that.
Last year, I didn't have a mobile notebook that has a good battery life and can do almost the same work as at home (= fast and high-resolution LCD can store memory as it is), so I used various SNS compound guns on the go. I used to go home by taxi in a hurry, but this year, thanks to this guy, I can do quite complicated work for a long time even when I'm on the go, so I'm not able to go on long-distance expeditions with confidence. I wonder. I think. Huh.