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  • Old laptops are not meant for SSD

    From Matthew Munson@1:218/109 to All on Thu Apr 16 13:04:34 2020
    I have a 2nd generation i5 laptop from 2011, I wanted to make the load time even better. However when I installed my SSD drive on the laptop, it was
    able to write to the SSD, but it was never able to boot with the drive. I
    even tried Linux and it seems its a hardware issue.

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Matthew Munson on Fri Apr 17 07:32:00 2020
    Matthew Munson wrote to All <=-

    I have a 2nd generation i5 laptop from 2011, I wanted to make the load time even better. However when I installed my SSD drive on the laptop,
    it was able to write to the SSD, but it was never able to boot with the drive. I even tried Linux and it seems its a hardware issue.

    You probably need to do a little more research before making claims like
    this. I've run 2004 IBM Thinkpads on SSDs for years. There may be incompatibilities in some drives/firmware/laptops -- for example, I could
    get a 64 GB PATA SSD to boot in a T42 and T43, but a 128GB SSD would only
    boot in the T43.

    Thinkpads were particularly picky about drives, as they had built-in
    features to protect drives from motion damage that required specific drives.


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