I am currently running Fedora 38 on an old Intel Mac Mini. It’s time to upgrade to a new computer. I’d like to keep the hard drive (SSD) and just put it into the new machine. To do this, would I have to stick with intel for my new machine or would it also be possible to put the SSD into an AMD machine and have everything work properly?

  • edentEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The drive itself will work with any processor. If all you have is data on there, it will work.

    Or do you mean you want to swap the drive which has the operating system on it?

      • Parallax@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Either way, make sure you have backups (3-2-1 backups if possible) before swapping the hardware. If it fails to boot and there is some change to the drive contents during boot, putting it back in the original system isn’t guaranteed to work.

      • edentEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        In which case, no, it probably won’t work.

        What you could do it put the drive in and then reinstall the OS and leave your home partition untouched.