ROG Ally Ultimate SSD installation Guide

you know what we're doing today that's good I have no idea what we're doing I'm just gonna get a drink [Music] we're gonna upgrade the SSD that's the right way and the Rog Ally you see it here here we in Frio we're in frame we're gonna upgrade the hard drive SSD I'm sorry I'm a boomer let's go skipping the button hello everybody this may be the beginning of the video uh I have an unboxing that I did but I don't know if I'm keeping it hello this is the Rog Ally and this is asus's competitor to the steam deck comes with the Z1 extreme processor 16 gigs of RAM uh which that Z1 processor also has rdna3 graphics on there 1080p screen 120 hertz this isn't a review of IT what this is for is a tutorial I guess you could say um even though I will admit that I got the information from the fox over on YouTube he isn't if you like these portable consoles he's the guy to go to link below in the description sub to him he's excellent and he's a very muscular man with great hair just like me that was a joke so okay the Rog Ally is working and the first thing you're going to want to do it I went through the whole Windows process setting up Wi-Fi blah blah blah blah blah uh you're going to want to hit your crate button here this is the button under the star button with the like circular triangle nonsense and you're going to want to go over to content you're going to want to go to update Center and you're going to want to check for updates I'm sure there's going to be you're going to want to make sure you're on the newest bios before you do this because the nice thing about Asus is you could actually get the image for the Rog Ally from the cloud so once you put the new SSD in there you're good to go it's actually a really cool um why is the controller being weird it's like skipping every other one all right so let's update the service the Armory crate we'll go you're going to see a jump cut here I'm just gonna update everything maybe I'll show the BIOS updating but that's about it so we are back here let's go to content again oh that's interesting after the update to Armory crate that's what it's called by the way you would think I looked it up before I made this Now The d-pad Works beautiful okay let's go to update Center again which is under content in the Armory crate which you push this button to get to and let's see yeah there is the new bios right there so we're going to hit a it's going to download them so again you want to do these updates before you put the new SSD in you want to have the newest most stable bios so make sure you go to Armory crate make sure you go to settings you go to update Center and update everything before you put the new SSD alright so we are back everything is successfully updated does it smell like taint no all right [Music] anyway rules for the not for me uh don't do this don't do this uh well no I actually do that because you want to have it on a soft surface you don't scratch the screen or damage the buttons but there's something I'm doing wrong I am not protected for static electricity make sure you are properly grounded with a wrist strap so you don't end up getting electrostatic to this and shocking it and breaking it uh so yeah I'm doing it wrong so I'm letting you know but it's humid in here the chances of anything happening um are not high and I am a disorganized anyway here's my ifix's toolkit let's open this bad boy up now this Center screw here is actually shorter than the rest of these screws these are all the same exact side this one's shorter so just just remember that because you don't want to put one of the long screws where the short screws should go because then you'll end up damaging something and that would suck [Music] foreign [Music] I've seen spawn wave take it out [Music] it didn't come all the way out mine's not coming all the way out I'm gonna try again after I unscrew this screw here if mine does not come out and yours does this screw all the other ones are the same size this Center screw is shorter now mine is not no I'm just going to get it up as much as possible and there you go so now we need from my magical tool kit uh I guess you could call them like a smudge tool make sure it's plastic you don't want to um damage you may you're probably gonna get a little bit of abrasion oh wow that's coming off really easy why but are they did this thing come with Clips broken oh no why is this this is too easy I'm scared wow that was ah in the buttons on the back are connected so you don't have to worry about putting them oh I like that so it's not like little itty bitty pieces all over all right good job with that Ace is well done um now what we gotta do is obviously unplug the battery there are some people that live dangerously kind of like I'm living dangerously without having wrist straps on I consider this riskier having it plugged in oh I just have the battery off but if you still have a charge in it as a matter of fact if you want to get real paranoid hit the power button I do this on desktop computers too to make sure the motherboard and everything is discharged after you unplug the battery from your Rog Ally to make sure there is zero juice flowing through it some people may laugh at me for saying that not because I said juice who doesn't love some good old-fashioned juice but uh I don't know what the hell I was talking about anyway let's just let's just get the hard drive up here so here is the m.2 drive it's a 20 tweet 2230 drive not three not Tweety tweet and the one in here is only 512 gigabytes so we need more space and there is the screw for that kind of an obvious screw so no need to really make be careful it's the shortest tiniest black screw there so let's uh remove the SSD which is not coming up is as easy as I would have hoped why why are you not exiting your hole here we go okay that I'm not gonna lie that did not feel natural at all I'm a little concerned I've never had an SSD do that and nvme here is our replacement Drive sabrant rocket Q4 2 terabyte nvme SSD PCI 4.0 so get some nice nice read speeds from this I am spazzing out open this up today anyway hopefully installing this will be easier than taking the other SSD out definitely wasn't a comfortable feeling taking that out we'll find out if this is dead momentarily alright so here's our other beautiful with four times the storage baby put this in here yeah that that went in no problem that was so weird so so strange see this is why you still unplug the battery because I accidentally hit a button up on top now you don't want to turn too much as soon as it feel like a good solid tension stop you've you've you don't want to strip screws so all right so put the battery the battery back in your clicked sure that down make sure the glue because I did push it up a little bit to get better access and there we go that is the new SSD in here we just got to clip this back together which really won't be hard at all which I should shut up because everything that should be easy is never easy come on Rich you know better so we just go around making sure everyone is clipped in and happy and I think we are All In all in there's a little bit of but that's probably because it needs the screws so let's begin screwing [Music] foreign [Music] so the moment of truth now okay oh I almost didn't take my own advice now when you put the new SSD in you are gonna have to have it when you first do the initial installation too that's also uh you have to have it plugged in it won't turn on so make sure if you're wondering even if you have 100 battery have to have a plug-in after you change the SSD okay so now we are in the Bios and the first thing you're going to want to do when you get here is you need to get out of easy mode and you need to go into advanced mode hit Y use the d-pad to go over to Advanced and now you are going to use a to select Asus Cloud recovery now obviously if you policy I agree this took like the fox 20 times to press uh it only took me like four now it's checking Network information and initially it's not going to find anything so it's going to ask me to connect to Wi-Fi hit next I'm going to have to blur out the screen here but you pick your network and you put in your your password and you're good to go and it will download the image to the new SSD and it'll be good as new when you'll have more storage anyway I'm gonna do that put in my password for my Wi-Fi let it do its thing with the recovery and once it's done I'll come back and and show you how everything's working all right so the cloud recovery is done make sure my El Presidente do I have large man breasts [Music] it looks like it could happen that made no sense so anyway we're going to hit confirm here and that is actually cool man I want to see more devices maybe even motherboards so long as you have your windows license come with the image of Windows that'll have all of your drivers and software built in that is cool I know it's not realistic but huh it is midnight and I decided that it's a good idea to drink an energy drink why did I do that you are a gorgeous bird all right so we are connecting here it is checking now I got nervous there for a second it said connecting for a while I was like oh no please do not tell me I'm gonna have to reopen this and put the old drive back in and to go the old-fashioned way about this and uh get cloning software but I think the crisis has been averted now it's been checking for a long time I'm gonna sip this energy drink that I should not you know what no I'm not we're gonna have water nice or seltzer it is still checking go there turn on the cell turn on the Seltzer I'm gonna open the Seltzer down here Seltzer juice all over the Rog Ally it's still checking by the way in case you were wondering all right don't mind the mess on the desk it is like past two in the morning and I was losing my mind so I successfully installed the other SSD and okay everything's great I installed the BIOS updates there was one through Armory crate then there was one through Windows update I thought I was good to go I knew you needed to update the BIOS but there was another update in a different piece of software so I think this is important to have in the video because if you miss this what will happen is you're going to put the other SSD in you're going to install the image from the cloud and then it's just going to sit at checking and it's not going to install completely and you're just going to be stuck there and then you're gonna have to put the other SSD back in it's a disaster so I'm saving you these steps by showing this to you so here is my Asus uh listen explore my ass go away so customer support you're gonna go to live update you're gonna check and here's what you see here [Music] this is a hotfix has a new graphics driver update all update everything even if it's a Windows update update it even if it's a graphics driver update it there's something weird with the cloud update that Asus has that if you don't do this stuff it's not going to work so you have to sign up for my Asus even though Armory crate checks to see if there's a bios update there's another bios update that you need in my Asus so you need two different pieces of software to get two different updates someone in the comments section tell me if I'm wrong because if I am then I'm wrong but this is uh this is bizarre not a real good way to go about this but if you don't do these bios updates the hard drive the SSD excuse me it won't re-image it from the cloud so you have to do this and I'm gonna fart right now congratulations congratulations and there you go [Music] almost two terabytes of storage beautiful so needed it so needed it I think I recorded this clip before but going to this from 512 gigabytes there was like three or four games you could put on there put a bird in my ass listen it's thundering outside like my ass was thundering just in the toilet a few minutes ago that was TMI but I'm going with it let's go so look installing the new SSD as you saw even if you have minimal technical skill I will definitely applaud Asus with that it's super simple to put in the SSD however before you do that make sure I thought I had all the updates I didn't realize I had to go to my Asus which is the app that little app there on the bottom register sign up and get all of the BIOS updates there's also an update a firmware update that comes from Windows updates do every updated even if it's software updates update it to the T I think that's the right terminology get every single update you can through Windows my Asus Armory crate before you put the new Drive in because if you don't the Asus Cloud recovery will just stall and never update the operating system and put the image back on the new SSD you put in here so take it from me learn from me and if you do all that installing a new SSD in here now that I know that I got to get all the updates is really easy your competitors Asus should take notes this is richer review Tech USA signing out have a good one and now I have an Rog Ally with two terabytes of storage and I'm excited [Music] everybody [Music]

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Length: 18min 10sec (1090 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 03 2023