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itburnz

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Registered: 2009-12-01

Posts: 26

SSD upgrade

This may have been discussed before, but I couldn't find anything in the forum. I was thinking about replacing my regular HDD for an SSD one in my Dell laptop. The reason why I'm interested in this are that I think SSDs are more shock-resistant. Essentially I lug this box everywhere and am oftentimes concerned about sudden and jerky movements of the laptop because of the drive. So I wan't to make it more drop-, rattle-, travel-resistant.

Further, I have read both things: SSDs are more energy effiecient and SSDs drain batteries. Any useful insight on this topic?

Finally, my box is just set up the way I like it and I don't want to do it all over. Could I just buy an SSD, slap it into an external USB case, rsync it with the internal HDD, and then swap the SSD for the HDD? I would hate to set it all up again. Ideally I want to mirror the drive in the laptop and then switch the HDD for an SDD. My intuition says that it should just work, but maybe there's a caveat to this?

Last edited by itburnz (2010-10-26 07:39:08)

litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: SSD upgrade

There is a number of SSD threads on the forums, you need to search better. Here's a few:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=105093
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103324
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=106598

For your last question: yes, in theory that shouldn't be a problem if you make a complete mirror copy. On a filesystem level a SSD is a harddrive like any other.

Closing this one for duplication, you can open a new thread if you run into problems cloning your drive.

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