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I recently acquired a cf 19 Mk4 with a 160 gb HDD. I would like to replace it with a SSD drive. I was looking at a
SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 500GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive, will it work ? Is it a direct replacement ? If not what would be the correct ssd replacement ?
Thanks

You should have no problem with that drive. I have a few Samsung drives in my Toughbooks. Direct replacement ? Well Panasonic will sell you one for around $800.00

Just be prepared to get less than SATA III speed.

Thanks for the info. By Direct replacement I meant out with the old in with the new.

One other thing I have a choice of win 7 pro 32 or 64 bit, it currently has 4gb of ram

what would be my best choice?

I have W7 64bit on mine only because I had some extra memory laying around or I would of went with 32bit. On a 19 all you really need is 32bit with 4GB memory and that new SSD that 19 will fly

With 4gb run 32bit.
It will be faster than 64bit with 4gb

Thanks again

Hello,

I replace HDD's with SSD's all the time in toughbooks. From what you described, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. Hope this helps.