Dell Inspiron 11 – 3153, is a touch screen 11.6 inch laptop with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of installed Solid State Drive. When I purchased this laptop from Best Buy in 2015, I had in mind that I would upgrade it to 250/500 GB SSD. This configuration was not available on Dell’s website and was sold under Best Buy Blue Label.
After almost 3 years, I found that I really need to upgrade the SSD in this laptop, watched a few videos and decided to upgrade to a 256 GB Crucial SSD. After receiving the SSD, cloned the current disc using Acronis True Image, that I got with PNY SSD. I had upgrdaded my Sony Vaio laptop from 500 GB HDD to 256 GB SSD last year (2017). Before that, I had upgraded disc drive in my ASUS EEEPC running Windows XP with a Sandisk 128 GB SSD. I was confident that I would do it quickly.
I opened the laptop, removed two of the three screws securing the hard drive and was working on 3rd one. It was a Samsung SSD that came with laptop. After a few trials when I found that I am starting to strip the screw, I stopped. Closed the cover and planned to go to Geek Squad at Best Buy.
I gave them the SSD that I bought and the laptop for replacing the drive. They said it would be 40 $. It was OK that even though I am going to spend another 40 $, after all I would be able to expand the Storage on this Dell laptop.
To be continued…