Dell Inspiron 14 5458 SSD, RAM, HDD Upgrade Guide
In this guide, you will learn how to upgrade the RAM, SSD, HDD on Dell Inspiron 14 5458, I will remove the service cover and access the RAM, hard drive, wireless card.
Remove two screws securing the service cover.
Pry up and remove the cover.
Under the cover, you can access the RAM, hard drive, wireless card and CMOS battery.
Dell Inspiron 14 5458 has two RAM slots, it’s come with one 4GB DDR3L 1600MHz RAM, so you can add another 4GB DDR3L 1600MHz RAM.
It’s no spare mSATA or NFGG slot, so if you want to add SSD, you can remove the hard drive and replace it with a 2.5″ SSD, you can buy a 2nd HDD caddy to install the old hard drive to your laptop.
It’s come with a 500GB hard drive. It can be upgraded it to 1TB.
Upgrade Guide:
RAM: replaceable.
RAM Type: DDR3L 1600MHz.
HDD: come with 500GB, you can upgrade to 1TB.
SSD: replace the hard drive with a 2.5″ SSD.
Second HDD: Support.
the dell 1540 vostro has different case and no where can I find how to get dvd drive out
its very easy, just remove one screw securing the dvd drive from top case, and pull out the dvd drive
I can put 8GB of memory in the first slot and 4GB in the other slot ?
yes!
Great guide thanks, but I’ve wanted to add an extra hdd and coulnd’t remove the optical drive. Is there a way to update the guide for that, please?
it is very easy, just remove one screw from bottom case, you can pull out the optical drive
I’ve got it, thank you very much.
Hi. My I14 5458 doesn’t have a DVD Drive, where I can place the caddy for a second HDD/SSD? Thank you