[netsharc]

Sheesh, just get an SSD, clone the HD to it, put it in, and if IT figures it out and you get in trouble, walk. First I wanted to say "Put in a request for an upgrade to better computer, or an SSD" but since it's Siemens it would probably take weeks before they respond.

Alternatively since it has USB 3.1, get a SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD, install an OS of your choice, and boot from it, assuming the BIOS isn't locked.

[L0g4n]

As I said before, it’s not a HDD but a SSD.

[alar44]

Hi, IT director here. You wouldn't walk, you'd be walked out. By security. Then, likely sued.

Don't be a jackass. Discuss this stuff with your IT department.

[williamtwild]

Sued? Hyperbole. If you really do that as an IT director you are trash.

[LilBytes]

I guess I'm the IT manager and product/cloud SRE at my work (we're a very small shop).

Yeah, sued seems hyperbolic. From my perspective if a staff person was capable of cloning their HDD and putting in an SSD by their self, I'd be quite happy for them to go ahead.

But, we have an MSP that should and _will_ do this for you so I'd rather it was organised on your behalf and we took the necessary backups in case you borked it. Plus we could take ownership of destroying the original HDD would also be quite important.

IT Dir, can you explain why you'd react the way you would? Perhaps I'm missing some risk here but ensuring BitLocker (assuming they and you are running Windows) is running and other compliance controls are running like Intune or equivalent. I don't see any many risks here:

1) Data loss during the clone transfer 2) Need to ensure the original HDD is destroyed and certified as such.

[alar44]

I wouldn't sue, that's up to legal. None of what he suggested would even work in my environment. You'd be fired for moving company information out of our controlled environment if you cloned the drive, tampering if you replaced it.

All they'd need to do is tell me, and I'd get them a laptop with an SSD.

I cannot have lone wolves like that hanging around. They have the potential to do far more damage than someone from the outside.

[LilBytes]

In fairness this hypothetical situation shouldn't even exist, no one should get a laptop with a HDD in any case.

[alar44]

Very much agreed. Likely had that spare lying around "We'll, the specs aren't horrible, we will see if this works."

We need feedback! It's impossible to understand everyone's workflow. Trying to hack your way around something like that rather than communicating is pretty sophomoric.

[kyriakos]

The IT department should know better and offer the right hardware and software for each job. Unfortunately IT departments prefer conformity for easiest management instead of high performing and happy engineers.