Upgrading old laptop with SSD

[TechBlitZ]

My brother has a relatively old windows 7 laptop with an Intel Pentium.

 

The harddrive in it is completely knackered, he can't bare slow technology and is not computer savy so instead of replacing it with another 'relatively' slow harddrive I want to put and ssd into it.

 

Can I put pretty much any ssd into it? Such as this - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Technology-120GB-Solid-2-5-inch/dp/B00A1ZTZOG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1443554933&sr=8-2&keywords=ssd

 

 

Thanks

[79wjd]

Don't get a V300.  Oh, and it depends on if the connector is sata or ide I think.

I'd be very surprised if it was using IDE. IDE was basically only included as a legacy feature on a select few desktop motherboards back in the original Windows 7 days -- it was already extremely rare in the days of Vista. 

[TechBlitZ]

Yeah it's not that old to be ide, Is sata 3 backwards compatible?

[79wjd]

Yeah it's not that old to be ide, Is sata 3 backwards compatible?

yes. 

[TechBlitZ]

So any sata 3 ssd and i'm good to go? :-p Thanks peeps

[Naeaes]

1 ) knackered is the most British word I've come across today.

2 ) Any SSD will be too fast for the machine to fully saturate anyway so you might as well get a cheap one such as that. Those are somewhat reliable too so it's a fine choice. [Edit: Oh, it's sata-III so then maybe not Any-any, but still]

3 ) The SSD is likely a few millimeters thinner than the old HDD so if it's just the compression of the compartment cover holding it in place, you might have to macgyver something. Some paper or something.

[ChasingPluto]

1 ) knackered is the most British word I've come across today.

2 ) Any SSD will be too fast for the machine to fully saturate anyway so you might as well get a cheap one such as that. Those are somewhat reliable too so it's a fine choice. [Edit: Oh, it's sata-III so then maybe not Any-any, but still]

3 ) The SSD is likely a few millimeters thinner than the old HDD so if it's just the compression of the compartment cover holding it in place, you might have to macgyver something. Some paper or something.

Most SSDs are 7mm thick while most HDDs are 9mm thicks. The anti-vibration mount should secure the SSD without any macguyvering but that might depend on the model. I've never had to when I swap out drives so yeah.