u/harryregician

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Google "star trek ferengi rules of engagement" might be a good read for starters.

The Lenovo laptop is a Ideapad 330S-15IKB.

While Lenovo & Intel wanted customers to belive was this was an SSD drive, well sort of.

The Optane Hybrid in my inherited laptop has a 5400rpm HD with 16GB super cache running an upgrade of Win11.

Does have NVME HD connector on mb.

Has anyone been sucessful upgrading and cloning old HD without using Intel Optane drivers?

What concerns me is will the Intel Optane drivers be a problem with new HD that does NOT use or have Optane hybrid inline with HD.

I learned DO much on my trip to Xhina.

I asked Xi how did he keep gas so low per gallon?

Xi gave me that, you know, Xi grin and said

" We charge per liter, not gallon ! "

And broke up laughing like like that cartoon character, Hong Kong Phooey as I boarded the plane.

On your next trip to Mecico, Xi, let their pres. know Mexico needs to pay for it.

Trump said : " I got the idea when Melanie threw a glass of water at me. No, she just tossed the water. it's a little game we play before, we'll. ( BARF )

I always loved Jai Alai. Guys running up walls. The whole 9 yards . I still can't figure out how they keep score.

Oh, and that idea about US National Parks going total casino, I'll get back to you in 2 weeks."

Trump, after the fact, realizes manufacturing missiles takes longer to assemble them than to launch them.

The fertilizer production miss Calc has all of the makings for another massive food riot, only equal to what happened back in Russia over 100 years ago.

The HD is an actual HD running at 5400 rpm drive BARF.

There is an interface board with a sizeable cache memory module between drive and m/b.

Interface connector to m/b is either NVME or , is NOT of main concern.

If it wasn't for battery pack in laptop this big buffer Dave to HD would have never flown for its time. That was then need to upgrade

Any recommendations for just putting in a NVME or M.2 drive directly in ?

Right now, I am NOT interested in loading Win11 back on again. Just SO much Microsoft spying (Microsoft Teams, yahoo barf. ) and blockade by Gates.

My only ? Is which distro of Linux to use