How easy would it be to swap SSDs between a manufactured laptop and a custom built PC?

[ryan347]

I am considering buying a lenovo Y50 laptop. My only real complaint is the size of the SSD and lack of secondary HDD. However, my custom built desktop already has a 512GB SSD. I expect it should just be a matter of plugging in the SSDs and it should boot up and run no problems. But, I just want to make sure before I dump 1,300$ on a laptop. I've never tried to modify a manufactured computer before. I have 2 main questions:

-Should I expect any issues when I swap SSDs between a manufactured laptop and a custom PC? Shouldn't be anything a system reformat can't fix right?

-Are laptop SSDs the same size (physically) as for desktops? What about the 8 gb SSD version? It comes with either an 8gb SSD w/ 1TB HDD OR 256gb SSD w/o a HDD.

thanks in advance

 

[ComputerSecurityGuy]

Pretty much all SATA SSDs are 2.5 inch which is what all laptop hard drives these days are. You will have to reinstall Windows on the laptop but with a Windows 10 system you can create reinstall disks. It is possible to swap SSDs out in nearly all laptops, though.