Upgrade your bios if possible just to make sure. After you have found out what SATA version you require, measure your current laptop hard drive. Generally laptop HD's are slimmer than 2.5" drives found in servers and desktops.
For example, this SSD is 7mm think, they tend to range between 7mm and 9.5mm: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/120gb-corsair-neutron-series-slim-7mm-25-ssd-lamd-sync-nand-read-555mb-s-write-211mb-s-86k-iops-max Rich On 8 February 2013 21:50, Imran Chaudhry <ichaud...@gmail.com> 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 > > -- > GPG Key fingerprint = B323 477E F6AB 4181 9C65 F637 BC5F 7FCC 9CC9 CC7F > http://about.me/imranchaudhry > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
