Swap hard drive MB Pro

[MacUse-R]

Is it possible to just swap the hard drives on two Macbook pro's, one of them is a 13" early 2011 with OS X 10.9.5, and the other one is a 13" late 2011 with High Sierra.
Since the computers are nearly identical is it possible to swap the hard drives without the need to do anything else?
I am mainly interested in using the hard drive from the early 2011 MB Pro in the late 2011 MB Pro.

Is this doable?

 

[robvas]

Yea it would work fine.

 

[MacUse-R]

Yea it would work fine.

Thanks. An unrelated question so the forum doesnt get one more thread....if i want to transfer a Time Capsule backup to a hard drive of a new mac, or at least some of the contents on the backup, do i need to reinstall the OS and chose to set up the computer with a TM backup, or can i just manually transfer contents from the TM backup to a hard drive/mac that already has been set up as new?

 

[Fishrrman]

You can swap the drives.

But if you really want to improve the performance of the late 2011 MBPro, put an SSD into it.

A world of difference.