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Thony
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I doubt there will be any speed benefit, due to the limitation of USB connections being lower then SATA.

 

however it should work flawless.

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So my dad has All-in-one PC from 2010 or so. Its all he needs really but i was wondering if i can buy a regular SSD (samsung 850 evo for example) and give it to him on Xmas to speed up his all-in-one.

He already has HDD dock for external storage. Can he use the same dock to plug in SSD and install Linux on it or are the connectors too different ? (its sata 3).

Thank you for answers :)

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So my dad has All-in-one PC from 2010 or so. Its all he needs really but i was wondering if i can buy a regular SSD (samsung 850 evo for example) and give it to him on Xmas to speed up his all-in-one.

He already has HDD dock for external storage. Can he use the same dock to plug in SSD and install Linux on it or are the connectors too different ? (its sata 3).

Thank you for answers :)

Wait is it like a touch screen AIO with the built in monitor?  In that case I'm not really confident it would go in there*excuse my innuendo*

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So my dad has All-in-one PC from 2010 or so. Its all he needs really but i was wondering if i can buy a regular SSD (samsung 850 evo for example) and give it to him on Xmas to speed up his all-in-one.

He already has HDD dock for external storage. Can he use the same dock to plug in SSD and install Linux on it or are the connectors too different ? (its sata 3).

Thank you for answers :)

If you take it apart it will fit just fine, that is what I would reccomend doing. Running a dedicated os off of a USB interface isn't really the best idea.

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