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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?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Might work, might not work. I'm not sure about fedora but in Arch you could prevent the os not booting by installing amd-ucode prior to swapping.

It might be worth a try.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You said Mac mini. Apple has a history of making SSDs that are not compatible with the standards. So I am not entirely confident it would work outside of the Mac mini, specifically outside of your Mac mini.

That being said best of luck! Let us know how it goes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I'd like to swap the drive which has the OS on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.