How to add an ssd drive?

[Stephen Partington]

Looks like what I want to do for my wife's laptop
On Oct 6, 2015 5:41 PM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

> Brian Cluff last wrote:
> > You'll enjoy that Laptop a lot. I just picked up a T420 myself
> > a few weeks ago and everything works perfect right out of the box.
> > I did add 8 gigs of ram for a total of 12 and installed a 240Gig
> > mSATA SSD ... an addition to the 320 Gig spinning drive that
> > I put /home on, and that made a huge difference in the speed
> > of all the apps loading.
>
> How difficult is it to add an SSD?
>
> I really don't need the 500-gig HD that is in this T420
> that I just bought. On my old net-top system, df shows this:
> Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda5       15307020  6231552   8307468  43% /
> udev             1020708        4   1020704   1% /dev
> tmpfs             412276     1060    411216   1% /run
> none                5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
> none             1030680    21072   1009608   3% /run/shm
> /dev/sda6       71559236 26600696  41374540  40% /home
>
> Instead of flushing the 500-gig HD, could I just install
> a 64-gig or 128-gig SSD and install Linux on that and leave
> the 500-gig unused? I don't need to bother with dual boot.
>
> I looked on Amazon and saw these:
>
> Transcend 64GB SATA III 6Gb/s MSA370 mSATA Solid State Drive
> (TS64GMSA370) by Transcend $39.99 Prime
>
> MyDigitalSSD 128GB 50mm Bullet Proof 4 BP4 50mm mSATA
> Solid State Drive SSD SATA III 6G - MDMS-BP4-120
> by MyDigitalSSD $55.00 Prime or $44.95 used (3 offers)
>
> Also, what is the best way to install Linux Mint 17.2?
>
> I downloaded linuxmint-17.2-mate-32bit.iso but the size
> is 1,572,864,000 so I can't burn that onto a dvd to
> install it.
>
>
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