Guides on installing Solid State Drives (SSD) in G20 towers?

[BenTobith]

Hi everyone,

I have a G20 with the GTX 970. I'm looking to upgrade that to a 1080 soon, but also wanted to add a solid state drive to go along with it. I'd like to load all of my games, etc. on the SSD so they load (and can be downloaded) faster.

Any guides, recommendations, or success stories out there?

[dianebrat]

Plenty have done it, here's a good start:
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?54457-ROG-G20-Overhaul

Best approach is use the existing drive to make a set of recovery media on a USB stick, unplug the HDD, install the SSD in its location and boot off the USB thus giving you a brand new install on the SSD, then reconnect the old HDD afterwards and use it for data storage.

[deemon328]

There are a couple videos on youtube showing how to install a ssd that connects to the SATA_3 header on the motherboard. The SSD area and DVD is a caddy that is easily removable if you take out the cpu fans and heat sink. If you don't want to do that then you have to go the way of disassembling the front of the case a bit to slide the SSD into place.

I much more liked removing the CPU fan and heat sink--I had to repaste and add ram anyway. Doing it this way made it really easy to install the SSD and secure it with a couple screws. It is also a lot easier to make the cable connections in my opinion, plus you would have to remove the caddy if you still need to connect a cable to the SATA_3 header.

If you do secure the drive with screws, they have to be flat head. I used some old screws that had more of a pan head and they interfered with properly re-seating the CPU fan assembly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7NroUI3UPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_4eRNoHNk

[Welsh_Whoopee]

yeah the ssd is so easy to install and go to my second link above for the better version of the ssd install

Thanks Deemon328 for giving the links 🙂

Welsh Gaming