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

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Author: Tim Brocklehurst
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?
On Friday 08 Feb 2013 21:50:55 Imran Chaudhry wrote:
> 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


Imran,
Any SSD should work. There is a range of speeds, depending on what you want to
pay. As long as it is a reasonably recent Laptop you should not have any
issues with the BIOS.

Cheers,

Tim B.

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