How to add an ssd drive?

[Rusty Ramser]

"How difficult is it to add an SSD?"
No difference at all to installing to a HDD, in my experience.

"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?"
Shouldn't be any issue at all to do that.  Do you have a system that can
accept two HDDs (or SSDs), and you plan to keep both of them
installed/inserted at the same time?  Probably the easiest thing to do is
remove the HDD and put the SSD into that bay.  Get the system installed onto
the SSD without the HDD installed.  If you need/want to put that HDD back in
the system, use the secondary bay and leave your newly installed SSD in the
original/primary bay.

"Also, what is the best way to install Linux Mint 17.2?"
Burn the ISO to a USB drive; it's the only way to fly.  (Many laptops don't
even have a CD/DVD drive installed these days.)


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Subject: How to add an ssd drive? 

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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