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if you own a MacBook Air you might be
interested in knowing that you can
upgrade its stock SSD to a much larger
version and you can do it yourself hi
I'm MJ with iFixit and today we're going
to show you how to upgrade the SSD in
day late 2010 MacBook Air if you own a
2011 version of this computer the
process is remarkably similar but
regardless you're going to want to
follow the step-by-step instructions and
the repair guide on our site when you're
performing your upgrade now it's
entirely possible to upgrade the SSD in
any of the previous iterations of the
MacBook Air or upgrade the hard drive in
any Mac for that matter and we've
already recorded a lot of hard drive
upgrade videos so if you want to upgrade
your hard drive check out our hard drive
upgrade playlist and see if we've
already covered your computer that will
being said I'm going to get my parts and
tools together so I can get started for
this repair I'm going to need a plastic
spudger a t5 Torx driver and a macbook
air pentalobe driver now rather than
using separate drivers I'm just going to
use our 54 piece bit driver kit because
it has both the bits I'm gonna need plus
a ton more I'm also going to use an
anti-static wrist strap to protect my
macbook air from any accidental
electrostatic discharge during my repair
and a screw tray because it keeps all
those teeny tiny screws nice and
organized now I've got all the parts and
tools together I can get started by
taking out the 10 pentalobe screws that
are holding the bottom case in place
now that I've got all those screws out I
can begin to remove the lower case by
grabbing it right between the display
assembly in the lower case and rotating
it towards the front of the computer now
that the lower case is removed the very
first thing we're gonna do is disconnect
the battery and really that should be
the first step in any electronics repair
because we don't want any residual
electricity floating around in there
while we're doing our repair to
disconnect it we're gonna grab the
little pull tab and pull it out parallel
to the logic board you don't want to
pull up vertically because that'll break
the connector now that the battery is
disconnected we can get to work on the
SSD and there's only one screw holding
it in place so I'll go ahead and remove
it with that one screw out we can remove
the SSD it is held in that socket rather
firmly so as you're removing it kind of
wiggle it back and forth left and right
as if you're walking it out of its
socket and that's it all I have to do is
install my upgraded SSD and reassemble
my computer of course you can find all
of the parts and tools used for this and
many other repairs at ifixit.com and if
you run into any problems during your
repairs there are lots of solutions and
the MacBook Air repair guide on our site
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watching and happy repairing