Yep, will work.
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Looks like a straightforward swap 
Some laptops are awful to open up. I remember having a netbook which had a single screw for the hard drive bay which was great, but since then every laptop I’ve owned has required being completely opened to get to anything important.
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Should I remove this too (because the SSD will have its own plug kinda thing) or will it be the same one? Gonna read Crucial Manual now (until it’s here).
That’s a standard SATA connector, so it’ll be the same.
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Love you guys <3
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Speaking of you guys having mentioned dust cleaning. I don’t see a lot (except at the fan) that would be accessible for cleaning?!
It looks like everything is already pretty clean, so I wouldn’t worry about it 
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exactly
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It’s funny, since I started mingling with my RPi 3 everything just looks like a giant Pi to me lol
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I have a newer HP laptop and added an SSD NAND as the primary drive and kept the 1 tb spinning drive as a data drive. The BIOS was very picky when it comes to the SSD NAND and I read many accounts of people buying incompatible NAND sticks that could never boot.
I assume that an SSD drive is less bios dependent than NAND?
Also, the entire back of my laptop had to be “peeled” off. That was not fun removing it, and I had to do it twice. Good luck!
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SATA600 is a standard
not the fastest, but always working, also backwards compatible with SATA300
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I think you might be confusing some terms here. All SSDs are using NAND memory. Probably meant M.2 or NVMe?
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Yes, absolutely I meant M.2. I refer to those things as NAND which is incorrect. Thanks for pointing out this error in my post.
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System is super swift now viel spaß mit deinem schnellen laptop!
Have fun with your fast laptop!
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Thx <3
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Probably just the NAND in the old SSHD reaching its wear out limits and slowing iops.
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SSD and GNU/Ubuntu or:
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