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How do I know if my laptop can be replaced with an SSD?
Solid State Hard Drives are popular and recognized by computer users for their advantages of fast read and write speeds, high shock resistance and no noise. Therefore, many users have idea of installing solid state hard drives, but laptop users will have doubts. How do you think, how to judge whether it is possible to replace a laptop with an SSD?
In fact, all modern laptops are equipped with sata hard drives (with exception of early laptops), so there is no such thing as a laptop that cannot have a solid state hard drive installed. want to install an SSD as a system disk. The original hard disk is used for storage, so it should be said that how to judge whether a laptop with an SSD can be installed, following will introduce how to determine whether an SSD can be installed in a laptop:
At present, laptop SSD interface types mainly include SATA, mSATA, and NGFF, so if a laptop has a redundant interface, you can install an SSD on it.
The SATA interface is currently a popular interface type. Our most common SSDs are also SATA interfaces, and they are all in 2.5-inch design, which is convenient for laptop users to install.

Due to high cost of SSDs, it is not realistic to completely abandon mechanical hard drives, so there should be a redundant sata interface. Since optical drives also use sata interfaces, SSDs can be installed in an optical drive.

If installed in an optical drive, hard drive bracket for optical drive must be purchased separately.

However, editor recommends to install SSD to original hard drive and install original mechanical hard drive to optical drive, since optical drive interface of most laptops is still sata2.0, you can give full use of performance of SSD.
Users can check if laptop has an mSATA interface, and if so, they can directly install an mSATA SSD. This type of SSD is small in size and thin on one side. is only 4.85 mm, which will not take up much space inside laptop.

Many Ultrabooks do not have an optical drive or mSATA interface. Currently, you need to make sure that ultrabook has enough NGFF interface. This is a new generation of SSD interface standard developed by Intel for ultrabooks. Its normal size is only 42mm×22mm, thickness of NAND Flash particles on one side is 2.75mm, and thickness of double-sided particles is 3.85mm. For mSATA, volume is further reduced, which is very suitable for thin and light ultrabooks. .

After above steps, you will see if you can replace laptop with an SSD.
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