[Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

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Author: Imran Chaudhry
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Subject: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?
I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian
Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup.

The laptop is 2006 vintage and has a "spinning rust" SATA drive. Can I
just use any SSD SATA laptop drive as a drop-in replacement or do I
have to be careful about particular types eg SATA II/III, BIOS
incompatibilities etc?

Thanks

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