SSD

[Raymond House]

Hi Jeff, thanks for the info, I wonder though, once this is done(and I have
looked up the HP site to do this)do I have to do a complete reinstall of
14.04? how do you transfer what,s on the HDD to the SSD?

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:08 AM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you know the exact model (and possibly age), you could go on the HP
> website to figure out what sort of motherboard is installed, and from there
> determine what version of of SATA you have.  SSD will work (I believe) on
> SATA II and SATA III, but you need SATA III to really see the benefits
> (i.e. how fast the transfer rate is).
>
> Even if it's SATA II, SSD will be an improvement.  Without knowing for
> sure what model laptop you have, I would imagine that it's a
> straightforward swap.  You may need to move the drive bay attachments to
> the SDD to make it fit right.
>
> I'm not the expert here at laptops, though.  Perhaps one of the Working
> Centre lads could help out here...
>
>
> On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 at 11:03 Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all, I'm using an HP pavilion laptop and I wonder if I can replace the
>> HD with an SSD? I never opened one of these, is this doable? I suppose I
>> could add an outboard SSD but I wonder how to transfer all the info on to
>> it and tell the computer to shut down the HD.How would you do this? Thanks.
>> --
>> ubuntu-ca mailing list
>> ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca
>>
>
> --
> ubuntu-ca mailing list
> ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ca/attachments/20150804/a8bc3c62/attachment.html>