Upgrade 5 - Model Y Big SSD Installation

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[flatt]

Pro tip. Change play back speed to 1.5X

[jennlim]

I like how detail and educational this video gets to, it's not the just unplug and plug it in again now you done. I'm actually picking up the car tonight and this video is exactly what I need, thank you

[calusa]

Love your channel. You are one of go to guys for everything Tesla.

[rborroto]

Thanks for sharing, Dave. You had mentioned you were going to get a 1TB drive. Any reason why you chose 500GB, and why you chose the T5 vs the newer (comparably priced and twice as fast) T7?

[heytinku]

All my questions are answered in this video. I always thought of buying a compact thumb drive for sentry recording and it occupies less space in glove box. After watching this video, I learnt that its not regular thumb drive, its a mini SSD drive that Tesla made as thumb drive size. OMG. Thank you so much. :)

[guycolangelo]

Thank you for this. As simple as this is, we were having trouble the first go around. I’m not sure if it was a defective hard drive originally or that we didn’t hit stop recording, but I followed your steps with the new drive and it works flawlessly. Thank you

[rmkep]

As always, very useful information (commercial free!) . Thanks Dave

[JohnD]

Battery drain on sentry cam is material, maybe 1 to 3% of battery capacity per day. Between that and cabin overheat protection, you should be careful about parking your Tesla for over a week without doing the math on what to expect when you return. If charging is not available, you might want to consider turning them off. If you leave them on, check your app every 4 or 5 days to check your current State of Charge. At some point you might want to turn one or both of these features off.

[johnpoldo]

Dave, suggest you get a tripod for camera so 2 hands are available for opening packages.

[kennykolourinc]

another upgrade I have added to my buy list thanks Dave

[mousevision]

Nice the exact SSD I was planning on using. Thanks for the vid.

[MrDavidPartida]

Appreciate the upload. Helped me out tremendously with the setup 🙏🏼

[vethw]

Thanks for this... I'm picking up my Y soon, I'll order one of these to add to all the other new things I'm buying! 😋

[dontbanmebrodontbanme]

Great video! I didn't know about the pin for the glove box either. I'll be getting the largest SSD I can find for under $100.

[desertxr]

Thank you, very detailed and informative. 👍

[mikek]

Thanks for all your videos Dave! Your easy to understand and follow instructions have really helped me out, all of my 10 left thumbs and all lol.

[markroath]

Excellent video. Much appreciated information.

[mikeyc]

Great video. I got the same drive a year ago. I got it for storage space but also because I was hoping it would clear up the video glitches that appear on Sentry mode clips. Unfortunately my Sentry mode clips still have artifacts which is odd because manually saved dashcam clips do not: odd because they are supposed to be the same file(s) just copied to the Sentry folder. One thing to note is that Sentry mode is always recording even if it doesn't create Sentry clips. So if something happens with no Sentry events, you can still get to the past hour of footage by looking in the "Clips" folder (if the event was within the past hour).

[somemovingpictures]

I just went through this installation and the T5 drive would not format. I discovered that as long as any device is plugged into the USB-C plugs in the center console, the SSD drive in the glove box will not format. I have a lot of WAV and FLAC files on USB devices and a "hub" plugged into the console for housing those devices. I removed all that and the Samsung T5 formatted. The USB devices are now reinstalled with no conflicts.

[wayne]

Hello Dave, enjoy your video's keep them coming. I've been considering the same upgrade of this video but have eased the pressure on the trigger (if I may) because of recent video's and articles I've come across mentioning the power usage and heat generated by these SSDs. A group of Tesla owners are recommending to use a micro sd reader with a micro sd card 256gb to alleviate this problem. Is your T7 heating up and how much power does it draw? Thanks Dave