Noobie question sorry

I recently upgraded my old laptops SSD back in April. It was a placeholder until I bought an actual gaming laptop yesterday. I never upgraded the old laptop to Windows 11. The new laptop has a 512GB SSD and comes with Windows 11.

Is it possible to swap out the old SSD and transfer my old 1TB SSD with everything on it to the new laptop. I don’t know if I should upgrade my old laptop to Windows 11 real quick then transfer or simply just take out and insert the old SSD into the new one.

For reference:

Old Laptop: MSI GF63 Thin 10SC

New Laptop: Acer - Predator Helios Neo 16" WUXGA 165Hz IPS Gaming Laptop - Intel i5-13500HX – GeForce RTX 4050 with 16GB DDR5– 512GB SSD

My 1TB SSD: Intel 670p Series M.2 2280 1TB PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 QLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPEKNU010TZX1

  • oreosius@alien.topOPBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I didn’t know it was low end. If you have any recommendations for a decent SSD, lmk!

    • computix@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      We don’t recommend products here, but you need to get a drive with a DRAM cache and TLC flash for the best performance.

      Samsung 990 Pro, Samsung 980 Pro, Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus-G, WD Black SN850X, etc.