[ubuntu-za] Swapping hard drives

[Jan]

Good day all,

Some advice on desktop computers will be appreciated.

My Ubuntu 16.04 is running on a treasured 120 GB SSD, of which I utilise 
just over 50%. The motherboard is an old Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2160 
@1,80 GHz with 4 GB RAM.

I also have a Fujitsu Esprimo E5731 with a Pentium Dual Core CPU E5 700 
@ 3,00 GHz and 8 GB RAM which my wife uses almost exclusively for 
e-mails and Facebook. It currently dual-boots on Ubuntu 14.04 (40 GB 
partition) of which 12,5 GB is used and the Windows 7 partition on a 
little bit of the remaining 210 GB.

My thought was to put the SSD in the Fujitsu and the Fujitsu HDD in the 
older machine, until I was advised that Windows Operating systems do not 
like to be switched around. Not that I have much sympathy for the 
Windows sentiments, although I would like to keep this legal 
installation for those odd times when I may need it.

So will the Win 7 installation be unhappy enough in the older machine to 
justify keeping me from the swap? I am quite interested to see the SSD 
performance with a more powerful processor and 8 GB RAM!

Many thanks,

Jan