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Introduction

The GE70 has two SSD. This is the first SSD, SanDisk 64GB SSD. Remove one screw securing the SSD and take it away from mSATA slot. The laptop comes with two SanDisk 64GB SSD.

MSI has been championing high-end gaming laptops for about as long as we can remember, but there's arguably never been a better time to produce a mobile system that caters to the demands of the PC gaming crowd.

Advances in CPU and GPU development now allow for high-performance components that utilise little power, generating less heat and prolonging battery life. These enhancements suggest that the time is right for gaming laptops that are thinner and more attractive, without sacrificing any of that under-the-hood potency.

Trying to hit many of those notes is one of MSI's more-recent offerings, the GE70. Armed with a full-HD 17.3in display, a mobile Intel Core i7 processor and dedicated GeForce GTX 660M graphics, it promises a good deal of power in a tidier overall package.

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To begin with, the £1,050 price tag isn't extreme for a 17.3in machine with true gaming potential, and though it is a gaming solution at heart, the GE70 doesn't have the bulge of some of MSI's previous efforts. Quite the opposite; at 418mm x 269mm x 39mm in size, this is a relatively-slim gaming laptop, and at around 3kg in weight it's ideal for carrying to your next LAN party.

Thinner and lighter is certainly the way forward, but MSI's continuous use of plastic materials does give the GE70 a noticeably less-premium feel. The chassis - be it lid or base - isn't particularly stiff and is quite easy to twist by hand. As expected, the lack of stiffness does impact on the quality of the keyboard - which we'll cover in more detail shortly - and the amount of flex is disappointing. Plastic material aside, the laptop should survive a fair amount of gaming abuse, though it isn't a system you'd ever want to drop from a height.

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The chassis doesn't ooze quality and MSI's styling won't be for everyone, either. While the manufacturer has tried to rein in its typical 'race-car' designs, the strokes of red and the glossy, fingerprint-friendly blacks are still bordering on ostentatious. Having been able to slim a high-power system down to 39mm thick, we'd liked to have seen a more sophisticated shell, with less branding stickers.

But the GE70 is one of few laptops where aesthetics are largely a secondary concern. The target market may or may not like the stylised lid - it's certainly an acquired taste - but gamers will consider MSI's machine based on specification alone.

The model that MSI sent in for review is the GE70 0ND-055UK, which, unfortunately, has been discontinued in the UK. Its replacement - the GE70 0ND-241UK - is making its way to retail shelves as we speak, and as far as we can tell, features only one change; the Intel Core i7 CPU has been upgraded from a 2.3GHz part to a fractionally-quicker 2.4GHz model.

Our review sample's i7-3610QM ramps up to 3.3GHz using Intel Turbo Boost technology, and it's joined by 8GB of DDR3 memory and integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics. Things get interesting from here on in, as MSI has played it safe on the storage side of things by including a 750GB Western Digital hard disk, instead of a faster, more expensive solid-state solution (though there is an mSATA slot available).

MSI GE70 0ND-055UK Specification

ProcessorIntel Core i7-3610QM (up to 3.30GHz, 6MB cache, quad-core, 45W)
Memory8GB DDR3
Integrated GraphicsIntel HD 4000
Discrete GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
Display17.3in - 1,920x1,080
BatteryLithium Ion, 49 Whr
Weight3,057g
WirelessIntel Centrino Wireless-N 135 (802.11bgn)
StorageWestern Digital 750GB HDD (WD7500BPKT-22PK4T0)
Operating SystemMicrosoft Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit

Having no form of solid-state cache will hamper performance to a certain extent - the GE70 won't feel as responsive as systems equipped with an SSD - but it should be able to compensate by offering strong in-game performance from a dedicated GeForce GTX 660M GPU. The NVIDIA chip works in tandem with the integrated Intel HD graphics solution, kicking in only when needed, and unlike the GeForce GTX 670M featured in MSI's recent GT70, the GeForce GTX 660M is a true 28nm part built using NVIDIA's latest Kepler architecture.

Despite a jump in generation from Fermi to Kepler, the GeForce GTX 660M is going to slot in close to the older GeForce GTX 670M. As the branding suggests, we'd expect the latter to come out slightly ahead in terms of performance - the extra memory bandwidth and high-clocked shaders should see to that - but the Kepler chip has a newer architecture under its belt and is far more efficient.

We'll find out exactly how the two compare by pitting the GE70 against the GT70 in a couple of gaming benchmarks a little later in the review, but with a 28nm NVIDIA GPU and a third-generation Intel Core i7 processor, MSI's latest isn't going to be a slouch.

Padding out the specification, the 17.3in machine is equipped with a matte-finish 1,920x1,080 LED display, Wireless-N and Bluetooth connectivity, an integrated HD webcam, six-cell battery and a 64-bit install of Microsoft's Windows 7 Home Premium operating system.

Making good use of the available space, MSI also provides a selection of inputs and outputs. The left edge of the GE70 carries the power connector, HDMI output, two USB 3.0 ports, sturdy gold-plated headset and microphone jacks, as well as an SD card reader. The front edge houses a total of seven status LEDs - HDD, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, battery, caps lock, num lock and sleep, in case you were wondering - and the right side provides two USB 2.0 ports, VGA output, Gigabit Ethernet and a tray-loaded Blu-ray optical drive.

There's a lot on offer here, and like all good gaming laptops, the GE70 is easily opened for custom upgrades. Removing a few screws provides easy access, allowing for the system's vital components to be swapped out in next to no time.

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Hard Drive or SSD Specifications Check

If you want to upgrade your hard drive for your MSI gaming laptop for better performance, you may need to consult your manufacturer for the detailed specifications first.

As far as I know, apart from GS series, GT, GE, GP, GL, GF series, like MSI GT76/63, GE65, GP75, GL65/75, GF63, they have one of the three hard drive (or SSD) settings:

  • One M.2 SSD slot, two M.2 SSD combo slot and one 2.5' SATA HDD.

  • One M.2 SSD combo slot and one 2.5' SATA HDD.

  • Only one 2.5' SATA HDD.

If your MSI laptop belongs to GS series, like GS65, GS75, you're not allowed to unauthorized disassembly for hard drive. Otherwise, the warranty period is deemed to have expired. It's better to go to MSI Service Center for MSI hard drive upgrade.

Generally speaking, MSI gaming laptops come with a 1T HDD drive usually, and some of them pre-installed a small 120GB or bigger SSD. So, how to upgrade hard drive for better performance if there is no enough space? Perform MSI laptop hard drive replacement or doing MSI laptop SSD upgrade may be the ideal solution at this moment.

How to Do MSI Hard Drive Upgrade?

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Maybe you have other solutions to do this upgrade, like buy a bigger HDD or SSD, then replace your original one with the new one, then reinstall your Windows 7/8/10 with the Windows installation media. However, this way will take up a lot of time and is quite complicated.

To make it easy for you to perform MSI laptop hard drive replacement, it's highly recommended to try the best disk cloning software - AOMEI Backupper Professional. AOMEI Backupper offers two solutions for your MSI hard drive replacement in Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP:

  • Backup hard drive to USB/external drive then restore to SSD drive.

Please download the AOMEI Backupper Professional 30-day free trial and have a try: (The Clone features in the free trial can only be demonstrated, please upgrade to enjoy.)

Download Free Trial

Win 10/8.1/8/7/XP

Secure Download

What Do You Need?

Before you do, please prepare the following things.

  • Your MSI laptop with Windows installed.

  • A brand new SSD. To make sure what kind of SSD suitable for your MSI computer, consult for the manufacturer.

  • A USB flash drive or external hard drive.

  • SATA to USB enclosure or M.2 to USB enclosure.

  • Screwdriver.

  • Create a WinPE bootable media with AOMEI Backupper.


Way 1. MSI laptop SSD upgrade with clone feature

Here is how to upgrade MSI hard drive with the SSD using the Disk Clone feature in just a few clicks:

1. Use the SATA to USB enclosure or M.2 to USB enclosure to connect the new SSD, or you can just install the new SSD into the computer. Ensure the SSD can be detected by Windows.

2. Launch AOMEI Backupper Professional, select Disk Clone under Clone tab.

3. Choose the MSI hard drive as the source disk, and press Next.

4. Select the new SSD as the destination disk, and hit Next.

5. Tick SSD Alignment to speed up the SSD and press Start Clone >> to upgrade hard drive to SSD for MSI laptop in Windows 10/8/7.

★ Tips:
✍ Edit Partitions will help you fully use the storage space on the destination disk while cloning disk to larger disk.
✍ Sector by Sector Clone enables you clone all sectors on the source disk, and the time will be much longer. Uncheck this option only clone the used sectors which makes the clone be quicker.

After the clone finished, please restart your computer to boot into BIOS, and then change the boot order to boot from the cloned SSD; or shut down the computer, and replace the hard drive with the SSD, and boot the computer from it.


Way 2. Replace hard drive for MSI with backup & restore

All detailed steps listed below to upgrade MSI hard drive to SSD with Backup and Restore features.

Step 1: Backup MSI Original Hard Drive

1. Connect the USB drive or external hard drive with your MSI laptop, launch AOMEI Backupper, select Backup -> Disk Backup in turn.

2. Click + Add Disk, tap to select the MSI hard drive and click Add. Modify the Task Name to differ from others if required.

★Tip: If you want to backup more than one disk, you can repeat step 2.

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3. Select the external hard disk or USB flash drive as destination path and click Start Backup.

There are some optional settings you could customize before backing up MSI hard drive:
✍Options allows you to comment, compress, split, even encrypt the disk backup task, use VSS, make an exact copy(sector by sector backup), enable email or SMS notification, etc.
✍Schedule offers 5 modes for you to automatically backup hard drive, daily, weekly, monthly, event triggers, USB plug in. Besides, you could create full backup, or incremental and differential backup, etc.
✍The Scheme option could help you automatically delete old backup images once the backups over the number you specified to free up space.

After the backup finished, the disk image file of MSI hard drive has been stored to the USB drive or external hard drive.

Step 2: Remove MSI original hard drive and connect SSD

On this condition, shut down your laptop, and upside down.

  • Unscrew the screws that keep the back cover in place. Gentally pull off the back cover. El san juan resort and casino all inclusive.

  • Unscrew the screw for fixing the battery, and take it out carefully from the MSI laptop.

  • Gentally pull the MSI hard drive out after unscrewing the screws on the hard drive.

  • Put the new SSD drive into the slot.

Step 3: Restore MSI Disk Image to SSD drive

1. Plug the USB flash drive or external hard drive into the MSI laptop, boot your computer from the WinPE bootable media created before, and AOMEI Backupper will automatically run on your computer. Click Restore, and Select Task or Select Image File to locate the MSI disk image.

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2. Select to Restore the entire disk or Restore a partition in the disk and click Next >>.

3. Choose the new SSD drive as destination to restore entire disk, and then press Next >>.

★Tips: If your destination disk is different from your backup source disk, you will be prompted by this message 'Because your current selected destination hard disk is different from the backup source hard disk, please make sure that your system is Windows Vista or latter Windows 64-bit OS. Otherwise, it may cause destination system boot failure after restoring.'

4. Preview the result of restoring, and check the SSD Alignment option to optimize reading and writing speed for SSD, press Start Restore >>.

★ Tip: The Universal Restore could help you to restore disk image to another computer even with different hardware configuration. And make it bootable without any issues.

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To begin with, the £1,050 price tag isn't extreme for a 17.3in machine with true gaming potential, and though it is a gaming solution at heart, the GE70 doesn't have the bulge of some of MSI's previous efforts. Quite the opposite; at 418mm x 269mm x 39mm in size, this is a relatively-slim gaming laptop, and at around 3kg in weight it's ideal for carrying to your next LAN party.

Thinner and lighter is certainly the way forward, but MSI's continuous use of plastic materials does give the GE70 a noticeably less-premium feel. The chassis - be it lid or base - isn't particularly stiff and is quite easy to twist by hand. As expected, the lack of stiffness does impact on the quality of the keyboard - which we'll cover in more detail shortly - and the amount of flex is disappointing. Plastic material aside, the laptop should survive a fair amount of gaming abuse, though it isn't a system you'd ever want to drop from a height.

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The chassis doesn't ooze quality and MSI's styling won't be for everyone, either. While the manufacturer has tried to rein in its typical 'race-car' designs, the strokes of red and the glossy, fingerprint-friendly blacks are still bordering on ostentatious. Having been able to slim a high-power system down to 39mm thick, we'd liked to have seen a more sophisticated shell, with less branding stickers.

But the GE70 is one of few laptops where aesthetics are largely a secondary concern. The target market may or may not like the stylised lid - it's certainly an acquired taste - but gamers will consider MSI's machine based on specification alone.

The model that MSI sent in for review is the GE70 0ND-055UK, which, unfortunately, has been discontinued in the UK. Its replacement - the GE70 0ND-241UK - is making its way to retail shelves as we speak, and as far as we can tell, features only one change; the Intel Core i7 CPU has been upgraded from a 2.3GHz part to a fractionally-quicker 2.4GHz model.

Our review sample's i7-3610QM ramps up to 3.3GHz using Intel Turbo Boost technology, and it's joined by 8GB of DDR3 memory and integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics. Things get interesting from here on in, as MSI has played it safe on the storage side of things by including a 750GB Western Digital hard disk, instead of a faster, more expensive solid-state solution (though there is an mSATA slot available).

MSI GE70 0ND-055UK Specification

ProcessorIntel Core i7-3610QM (up to 3.30GHz, 6MB cache, quad-core, 45W)
Memory8GB DDR3
Integrated GraphicsIntel HD 4000
Discrete GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
Display17.3in - 1,920x1,080
BatteryLithium Ion, 49 Whr
Weight3,057g
WirelessIntel Centrino Wireless-N 135 (802.11bgn)
StorageWestern Digital 750GB HDD (WD7500BPKT-22PK4T0)
Operating SystemMicrosoft Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit

Having no form of solid-state cache will hamper performance to a certain extent - the GE70 won't feel as responsive as systems equipped with an SSD - but it should be able to compensate by offering strong in-game performance from a dedicated GeForce GTX 660M GPU. The NVIDIA chip works in tandem with the integrated Intel HD graphics solution, kicking in only when needed, and unlike the GeForce GTX 670M featured in MSI's recent GT70, the GeForce GTX 660M is a true 28nm part built using NVIDIA's latest Kepler architecture.

Despite a jump in generation from Fermi to Kepler, the GeForce GTX 660M is going to slot in close to the older GeForce GTX 670M. As the branding suggests, we'd expect the latter to come out slightly ahead in terms of performance - the extra memory bandwidth and high-clocked shaders should see to that - but the Kepler chip has a newer architecture under its belt and is far more efficient.

We'll find out exactly how the two compare by pitting the GE70 against the GT70 in a couple of gaming benchmarks a little later in the review, but with a 28nm NVIDIA GPU and a third-generation Intel Core i7 processor, MSI's latest isn't going to be a slouch.

Padding out the specification, the 17.3in machine is equipped with a matte-finish 1,920x1,080 LED display, Wireless-N and Bluetooth connectivity, an integrated HD webcam, six-cell battery and a 64-bit install of Microsoft's Windows 7 Home Premium operating system.

Making good use of the available space, MSI also provides a selection of inputs and outputs. The left edge of the GE70 carries the power connector, HDMI output, two USB 3.0 ports, sturdy gold-plated headset and microphone jacks, as well as an SD card reader. The front edge houses a total of seven status LEDs - HDD, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, battery, caps lock, num lock and sleep, in case you were wondering - and the right side provides two USB 2.0 ports, VGA output, Gigabit Ethernet and a tray-loaded Blu-ray optical drive.

There's a lot on offer here, and like all good gaming laptops, the GE70 is easily opened for custom upgrades. Removing a few screws provides easy access, allowing for the system's vital components to be swapped out in next to no time.

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Hard Drive or SSD Specifications Check

If you want to upgrade your hard drive for your MSI gaming laptop for better performance, you may need to consult your manufacturer for the detailed specifications first.

As far as I know, apart from GS series, GT, GE, GP, GL, GF series, like MSI GT76/63, GE65, GP75, GL65/75, GF63, they have one of the three hard drive (or SSD) settings:

  • One M.2 SSD slot, two M.2 SSD combo slot and one 2.5' SATA HDD.

  • One M.2 SSD combo slot and one 2.5' SATA HDD.

  • Only one 2.5' SATA HDD.

If your MSI laptop belongs to GS series, like GS65, GS75, you're not allowed to unauthorized disassembly for hard drive. Otherwise, the warranty period is deemed to have expired. It's better to go to MSI Service Center for MSI hard drive upgrade.

Generally speaking, MSI gaming laptops come with a 1T HDD drive usually, and some of them pre-installed a small 120GB or bigger SSD. So, how to upgrade hard drive for better performance if there is no enough space? Perform MSI laptop hard drive replacement or doing MSI laptop SSD upgrade may be the ideal solution at this moment.

How to Do MSI Hard Drive Upgrade?

Maybe you have other solutions to do this upgrade, like buy a bigger HDD or SSD, then replace your original one with the new one, then reinstall your Windows 7/8/10 with the Windows installation media. However, this way will take up a lot of time and is quite complicated.

To make it easy for you to perform MSI laptop hard drive replacement, it's highly recommended to try the best disk cloning software - AOMEI Backupper Professional. AOMEI Backupper offers two solutions for your MSI hard drive replacement in Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP:

  • Backup hard drive to USB/external drive then restore to SSD drive.

Please download the AOMEI Backupper Professional 30-day free trial and have a try: (The Clone features in the free trial can only be demonstrated, please upgrade to enjoy.)

Download Free Trial

Win 10/8.1/8/7/XP

Secure Download

What Do You Need?

Before you do, please prepare the following things.

  • Your MSI laptop with Windows installed.

  • A brand new SSD. To make sure what kind of SSD suitable for your MSI computer, consult for the manufacturer.

  • A USB flash drive or external hard drive.

  • SATA to USB enclosure or M.2 to USB enclosure.

  • Screwdriver.

  • Create a WinPE bootable media with AOMEI Backupper.


Way 1. MSI laptop SSD upgrade with clone feature

Here is how to upgrade MSI hard drive with the SSD using the Disk Clone feature in just a few clicks:

1. Use the SATA to USB enclosure or M.2 to USB enclosure to connect the new SSD, or you can just install the new SSD into the computer. Ensure the SSD can be detected by Windows.

2. Launch AOMEI Backupper Professional, select Disk Clone under Clone tab.

3. Choose the MSI hard drive as the source disk, and press Next.

4. Select the new SSD as the destination disk, and hit Next.

5. Tick SSD Alignment to speed up the SSD and press Start Clone >> to upgrade hard drive to SSD for MSI laptop in Windows 10/8/7.

★ Tips:
✍ Edit Partitions will help you fully use the storage space on the destination disk while cloning disk to larger disk.
✍ Sector by Sector Clone enables you clone all sectors on the source disk, and the time will be much longer. Uncheck this option only clone the used sectors which makes the clone be quicker.

After the clone finished, please restart your computer to boot into BIOS, and then change the boot order to boot from the cloned SSD; or shut down the computer, and replace the hard drive with the SSD, and boot the computer from it.


Way 2. Replace hard drive for MSI with backup & restore

All detailed steps listed below to upgrade MSI hard drive to SSD with Backup and Restore features.

Step 1: Backup MSI Original Hard Drive

1. Connect the USB drive or external hard drive with your MSI laptop, launch AOMEI Backupper, select Backup -> Disk Backup in turn.

2. Click + Add Disk, tap to select the MSI hard drive and click Add. Modify the Task Name to differ from others if required.

★Tip: If you want to backup more than one disk, you can repeat step 2.

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3. Select the external hard disk or USB flash drive as destination path and click Start Backup.

There are some optional settings you could customize before backing up MSI hard drive:
✍Options allows you to comment, compress, split, even encrypt the disk backup task, use VSS, make an exact copy(sector by sector backup), enable email or SMS notification, etc.
✍Schedule offers 5 modes for you to automatically backup hard drive, daily, weekly, monthly, event triggers, USB plug in. Besides, you could create full backup, or incremental and differential backup, etc.
✍The Scheme option could help you automatically delete old backup images once the backups over the number you specified to free up space.

After the backup finished, the disk image file of MSI hard drive has been stored to the USB drive or external hard drive.

Step 2: Remove MSI original hard drive and connect SSD

On this condition, shut down your laptop, and upside down.

  • Unscrew the screws that keep the back cover in place. Gentally pull off the back cover. El san juan resort and casino all inclusive.

  • Unscrew the screw for fixing the battery, and take it out carefully from the MSI laptop.

  • Gentally pull the MSI hard drive out after unscrewing the screws on the hard drive.

  • Put the new SSD drive into the slot.

Step 3: Restore MSI Disk Image to SSD drive

1. Plug the USB flash drive or external hard drive into the MSI laptop, boot your computer from the WinPE bootable media created before, and AOMEI Backupper will automatically run on your computer. Click Restore, and Select Task or Select Image File to locate the MSI disk image.

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2. Select to Restore the entire disk or Restore a partition in the disk and click Next >>.

3. Choose the new SSD drive as destination to restore entire disk, and then press Next >>.

★Tips: If your destination disk is different from your backup source disk, you will be prompted by this message 'Because your current selected destination hard disk is different from the backup source hard disk, please make sure that your system is Windows Vista or latter Windows 64-bit OS. Otherwise, it may cause destination system boot failure after restoring.'

4. Preview the result of restoring, and check the SSD Alignment option to optimize reading and writing speed for SSD, press Start Restore >>.

★ Tip: The Universal Restore could help you to restore disk image to another computer even with different hardware configuration. And make it bootable without any issues.

Until now, the MSI SSD upgrade has been done successfully. Just enjoy it.

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Further Reading: MSI RAM (Memory) Upgrade

Besides, you could upgrade your memory (RAM) to get better performance, MSI gaming laptops allow you to upgrade RAM up to 64GB. Generally, you have RAM 16GB (8GB*2) with 2 slots. If you want to upgrade RAM to 32GB or 64GB, buy compatible larger RAM sticks, and then replace them with the new RAM sticks.

How to upgrade RAM for MSI computers, refer to the following:

  • Shut down MSI gaming computers, and upside down.

  • Pull off the back cover after taking out the screws.

  • Release the buckle and take out the two old smaller RAM sticks.

  • Insert larger RAM sticks at an angle of 45° and press it down to secure it tightly by the buckle.

  • Put everything to its places, and MSI RAM upgrade is done.


Conclusion

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With this powerful Windows backup software - AOMEI Backupper, MSI hard drive upgrade has been finished with a success. AOMEI Backupper also provides system clone for cloning Windows operating system only, and allows you to create bootable media to restore windows when your MSI laptop refuses to boot.

If you want to protect unlimited computers within your company, you can pick AOMEI Backupper Technician. With the inbuilt AOMEI Image Deploy tool, you are also allowed to deploy/restore system image file on server-side computer to multiple client-side computers over network.

For who is running Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 (including R2), please try AOMEI Backupper Server to enjoy more advanced features, like universal restore, command line utility to backup/restore/clone, create differential backup with a schedule task, etc.





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