Successfully upgraded the hard drive in an 80G9 250gb

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I came to hate this thing, that damn drive took forever to spin up and caused significant lag on the tablet constantly, I regretted not just getting a flash based one. So, this week I got bored and pried it apart. Pulled out the drive, used Gparted to shrink the partition to 120gb, copied that partition to an OCZ Petrol 128gb SSD, took it out of the metal case, and sticky taped that bad boy in. Tablet is amazingly fast now Movies load instantly. I never see that hated drive access indicator anymore. I shall see if the battery life is any better. Putting a mechanical drive in something like this was a terrible idea. I have some pics of the guts of this thing if anyone is interested.

yes upload photos, pictures of the tabled opened too. is hd sata? thank you :)

It is indeed SATA. Has an extremely easy to pull out of the motherboard cable that caused it to short the old SSD I was going to use. So watch that. Also, the original drive was covered in gold metal tape that was a beast to pull off, I suppose for RF shielding. I forgot to take pictures before I took the drive out. The only negative so far is that I now have that weird screen anomaly, which has GOT to be something pushing against the screen's back, I may have gotten a wire in the way. I will yank it back apart later this week to address that. Didn't have it before. It has TWO big batteries in it as well. In the pictures, the circuit board near the top kind of by itself is the naked SSD in the former drive bay. Motherboard is at the bottom, in one of them, you can see the bigger battery laying outside on my table.

Mega props to you. That's am awesome project. I installed a sad in my notebook and it was the best thing I ever did for performance.

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great idea
have you a process ? (send me by mp)

is sata port also present in the no hd g9 mainboard? thank you

Nice Project

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Nice project.

Was just wondering if the RAM is soldered onto the board or it is upgradable as I got the 80 G9 8GB non turbo and could do with a ram boost.

Not sure if the innards are the same as the 250GB model but worth asking as you have had it open.

Thanks in advance.

Psi.

wifi

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Hello, could you say where is wifi antenna?

I have problem with the strength of signal...

Thank you

Originally Posted by wonderka

Hello, could you say where is wifi antenna?

I have problem with the strength of signal...

Thank you

I think that's just a universal issue with the archos g9 tablets.

You just got to re-position your router closer or use 3G dongle.

Psi.

well, I bought stronger router because of signal, but no change. So I compare my and my colleague Archos G9 80 and samsung mobile and my tablet was about 30-50% worse...
Factory reset I tried