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I followed the advice in this post http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=109855 and outfitted my T61 with an SSD, which is working perfectly. Question: Can I yank it and put it in a used T410 (14") I'm getting? I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 on the T61, but I'm prepared to have to reinstall the OS.

Yes, physically the drive will fit. I guess you have a 2.5" SATA SSD Drive. I can't tell between a T61 and T410, but I've swapped drives with Ubuntu installs between T61 <=> T400, X61s <=> X200s and I never had any problems.

However, in all those cases the graphics were Intel in both donor and receiver machines. I don't know what will happen if you move an Nvidia to Intel or Nvidia to Switchable Intel/Optimus

Hope this helps!

My prime concern was that the hardware, the drive itself and its caddy would be compatible/fit. If that's true, I'll worry about whether the OS works later.

Should continue to work just fine. Ubuntu is good at detecting hardware changes and installing the appropriate drivers.

I'd expect it to work without changes, or automatically switch drivers on first boot. Windows on the other hand, prefers to BSOD!

rjwilmsi wrote:Windows on the other hand, prefers to BSOD!

I have swapped Windows 7 drives between X220s > T410s > T420 w/Nvidia before and never had any issues. Lenovo System Update works really well. For all the awful things Microsoft has done, Windows 7 was actually alright.

jayton4 wrote:

rjwilmsi wrote:Windows on the other hand, prefers to BSOD!

I have swapped Windows 7 drives between X220s > T410s > T420 w/Nvidia before and never had any issues. Lenovo System Update works really well. For all the awful things Microsoft has done, Windows 7 was actually alright.

OK, then it's a case of YMMV.

rjwilmsi wrote:OK, then it's a case of YMMV.

Definitely! I've swap once a Win7 SSD from a X61s to a X200s without issues.

And then one day I upgraded another X200s of mine (that already had Win7) from 2x 2GB to 2x 4GB => BSOD