Satellite A500 - 14K does support SSD drive?

Hello everyone,

I'm considering buying an SSD to replace the old hard isk of my Satellite A500 - 14K with an SSD.
I have a question: it's going to be that simple:
-excerpt from my old hard drive
-Insert the SSD 2.5 "
-use the recovery DVD to reinstall vista and w7

Is this laptop * tatooed * which would prevent this kind of replacement?

a s SSD not as expensive as it was a few years ago but it is still expensive and I don't want to buy an SSD that I can't use!

Thanks for your answers,

Olivier

Hello

In most cases is not a big problem for the SSD drive works correctly.
I made these updates on my old Toshiba laptop and it worked normally.

Sometimes, it would be possible that an SSD would not be recognized in the BIOS. Such compatibility problem could be linked to the SSD drive firmware, but it happens in very rare circumstances

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