Hi, I have a Dell G5 5500, it has a 1TB SN730 NVMe WDC SSD drive.
This drive is showing as 40% lifespan left, so I am starting to get a little worried about how long left it has.
Not sure if soon i should start consider getting a new drive and use some kind of clone software to transfer my drive?
I guess I need to know a couple of things first, such as, do I probably not need to worry until it's more near 10-20% lifespan?
If it were a good idea to look at a new drive soon, do I already have the fastest drive possible for my laptop, or is there another that would be faster for me?
I tried to open my laptop once to try to give the inside a clean, I didn't really have any luck. After taking all the screws out, I just couldn't prise the laptop open, and in the end got too worried about damaging the laptop, so gave up. Obviously this is an issue if I need to open it lol is it actually pretty easy to open if you do it right?
With the laptop apart and if I got a new drive, how easy would it be to copy my current drive to the new drive using just this laptop (as I don't have any other means).
Will a copy of the drive also copy all the dell recovery data?
Do you need to turn off device encryption to do a copy?
What is the max size of SSD I could use, and does having more reduce performance at all? I think 2TB is the max I'd go to anyway, my 1TB isn't full now, so I could probably even get away with another 1TB i guess, but if there's no reduction of performance I'd consider getting a 2TB just for future-proof.
Any help and advice would be great.
Thanks
James
This drive is showing as 40% lifespan left, so I am starting to get a little worried about how long left it has.
Not sure if soon i should start consider getting a new drive and use some kind of clone software to transfer my drive?
I guess I need to know a couple of things first, such as, do I probably not need to worry until it's more near 10-20% lifespan?
If it were a good idea to look at a new drive soon, do I already have the fastest drive possible for my laptop, or is there another that would be faster for me?
I tried to open my laptop once to try to give the inside a clean, I didn't really have any luck. After taking all the screws out, I just couldn't prise the laptop open, and in the end got too worried about damaging the laptop, so gave up. Obviously this is an issue if I need to open it lol is it actually pretty easy to open if you do it right?
With the laptop apart and if I got a new drive, how easy would it be to copy my current drive to the new drive using just this laptop (as I don't have any other means).
Will a copy of the drive also copy all the dell recovery data?
Do you need to turn off device encryption to do a copy?
What is the max size of SSD I could use, and does having more reduce performance at all? I think 2TB is the max I'd go to anyway, my 1TB isn't full now, so I could probably even get away with another 1TB i guess, but if there's no reduction of performance I'd consider getting a 2TB just for future-proof.
Any help and advice would be great.
Thanks
James
