On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Joe Hartley
<jh(a)brainiac.com> wrote:
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:14:48 +0100
Philipp Überbacher <hollunder(a)lavabit.com> wrote:
I have a little question as well: Can a laptop HD
be replaced
with a SSD without trouble
A slightly longer answer: Yes, as long as the laptop supports SATA. I
thought I'd replace the drive in my ThinkPad T43, but it uses an older
type drive with a very different connector, so obviously that didn't work
for me.
I had a Compaq laptop that looked like it had a different connector.
Turned out that Compaq attaced a different connector to the SATA port
before inserting it into the machine's drive port. Possibly your
ThinkPad is similar?
Laptops either have SATA or IDE. Both types of connections are of a
different form factor compared to their 3.5" counterparts. However, on
first look, the SATA one would give you the impression that you can't
just buy another disk and put it in there. That's because there's an
extra attachment to the existing disk that needs to be taken out and
slotted onto the new one.