Subj : Re: Old laptops are not meant for SSD
To   : Matthew Munson
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Fri Apr 17 2020 07:32 am

-=> Matthew Munson wrote to All <=-

 MM> I have a 2nd generation i5 laptop from 2011, I wanted to make the load
 MM> time even better. However when I installed my SSD drive on the laptop,
 MM> it was able to write to the SSD, but it was never able to boot with the
 MM> 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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