How to upgrade the SSD in the Cube i7 Stylus (Video and Pics)

[Samuel]

Nice Chris; it does get warm in that area, but moreso while charging obviously. Nice to know that it’s relatively easy to drop something beefier in there for the drive; btw, since there is a bit of space just above the battery, I want to wish you the best of luck with your “How to simply go about setting up liquid-cooling for the i7-Stylus” video.

it’s inevitable; you must not deny us this! 😉

[darren]

thanks chris

[Chris G]

Samuel wrote:

Nice Chris; it does get warm in that area, but moreso while charging obviously. Nice to know that it’s relatively easy to drop something beefier in there for the drive; btw, since there is a bit of space just above the battery, I want to wish you the best of luck with your “How to simply go about setting up liquid-cooling for the i7-Stylus” video. it’s inevitable; you must not deny us this!

 

Haha 🙂 Liquid cooled tablet, how practical lol. Sure It gets warm, but I can deal with it getting to 45 degrees on the back. It’s only when pushed hard and not an issue in day to day use. My Dell Venue 11 Pro gets hot there to, but throttles more I think due to having plastic on the back. But the Venue 11 Pro has a huge copper heatsink.

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[Aresu]

Really nice tutorial. That 64gb SSD is one of the few weaknesses of the i7 stylus, so this give us more oportunities to improve it.

Good job.

[darren]

Hi Chris can you show us more pics of the heat sinks and and other tips to make it more cooler I will be doing the same with mine while swapping the ssd drive but one thing theat size of m.2 is hard to find with chose of brands I can only see transcend 256gb

[Chakkapan]

Should we remove the battery connector before swapping the ssd?

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[Efraim Zeevi]

<b>Thanks to the site I bought and want to upgrade</b>

<b>I think increasing the SSD 128 and the instructions are very efficient.</b>

<b>I have a question, is it possible to install double-bot and add Android?</b>

<b>If so where can I get specific instructions for each process?</b>

<b>Of course in i7</b>

[Janis Veide]

Could you give more info on those extra thermal pads you installed?

Did they work, and which ones did you use?

[Chris G]

darren wrote:

Hi Chris can you show us more pics of the heat sinks and and other tips to make it more cooler I will be doing the same with mine while swapping the ssd drive but one thing theat size of m.2 is hard to find with chose of brands I can only see transcend 256gb

Unfortunately, I put the lid back on without taking pics of the thermal pads! I don’t want to risk more damage to the plastic tabs opening it up again for the second time. All I did was place some above and below the one already there. So it will transfer some more heat to the back of the tablets metal casing and away from the CPU/GPU. Plextor do a 2242 in 128GB and 256GB and Transcend.

Chakkapan wrote:

Should we remove the battery connector before swapping the ssd?

Yes, it wouldn’t hurt. I had mine completely powered off (Not connected standby) And had no issues.

Janis Veide wrote:

Could you give more info on those extra thermal pads you installed? Did they work, and which ones did you use?

I used some Artic Cooling thermal pads 1mm and cut them to fit, like these

So far I’ve seen little effect, maybe a few degrees cooler. Not really worth it unless you’re already there upgrading the SSD. The rear still gets very hot to the touch when gaming or benchmarking.

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[darren]

thanks chris has anyone got there tablet dispatched yet and witch brand better plextor or transend ?

[darren]

hi guys i have a samsung msata 840 will a m.2 to msata adapter fit

[clanna777]

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[Stroud]

I’m planning to buy a 256gb NGFF 2242 SSD for this but i am afraid i am missing a few instructions how to upgrade the ssd. If anyone’s upgrading their setup can you please make a complete step-by-step and watchouts so we dont break the lcd glass or the digitizer? also if possible make a video?

 

thanks

 

[sean]

successfully installed 265 gb ssd

https://www.memoryc.ie/storage/ssd/256gb-ztc-armor-42mm-m2-ngff-6g-ssd-solid-state-disk.html

 

had a major issue the screw holding down the sdd it was stuck and couldn’t be removed, i used the correct screw driver head.

had to break it off. ill tape it down or something.

ill use the ssd that came with it as a handy external drive.

no issues installing a clean windows 10 via usb.

 

[mrobi]

Though that I could have utilized one spare Samsung SM841 mSata drive from work but it seems that is too large.

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