Grunting elephant performs LG Gram 16" 2022 Teardown & SSD Upgrade

Watch as I struggle to get inside the LG Gram 16" 2022 to perform an SSD upgrade, and deconvert an MP600 PRO XT Hydro into a non-hydro.

I won't be offended if you decide watch at 2x speed, it's hardly a spectator sport.

The 4TB Hydro SSDs were significantly cheaper than I expected when I ordered it earlier today at £555.05 inc VAT on Amazon. I now see that a few hours later they're priced at £722.46!

Crystal Diskmark Results:

Read/Write MB/s
Seq Q32T1 7045.5/6558.2
4KiB Q8T8 1639.3/1545.3
4KiB Q32T1 885.2/689.2
4KiB Q1T1 86.34/295.8

To clone I used Acronis True Image. I did try Macrium but it failed with an innaccessible boot device. I also disabled Bitlocker before cloning.

Some benchmarks (network off, AV off, Windows search disabled):

I7-1260P LG Gram 16" 2022
Single/Multi
CPUZ 1.91 637.6 / 5206.3
GeekBench 4 7455/ 34614
Compute 63711
Geekbench 5 1654 / 8911
Compute 19568
Passmark 4646.1
CPUMark 3339 / 17614
2dGraphics 533
3dGraphics 3094
Memory 2961
Disk 25718 (MP600 PRO XT PCIe 4x4 NVMe 4TB)
Cinebench R15 218 / 1394
Cinebench R20 605 / 3394
Cinebench R23 1578 / 7087