Any standard 7 mm drive will work -- there are only three manufacturers of 2.5" drives left: WD, Toshiba and Seagate. Either of the first two is a good choice.
Actually What id recommend is getting a 7200RPM drive that's 1 or 1.5Tb of storage and then a NVMe PCIe SSD for the boot and that should be a 512Gb one.
I saw talk online about peoples putting an SSD in their HDD slot. Do you think it is possible to do it in the area-51m ? Or an HDD is the only solution ?
The open 2.5" drive bay will take either an SSD or a hard drive. For storage, while a hard drive will work fine, the idea that a hard drive will outlive an SSD is open to serious question. It is true that the first SSDs had much more limited read-write capacity than current ones do. Just about any current SSD from a reputable manufacturer is statistically likely to far outlive any hard drive you purchase.
Hard drives are outgoing technology, selling solely on price and quality control and engineering has taken a backseat to price. The price delta between a 1T 7200 rpm drive and a 1T 2.5 SSD is as low as $30 and rarely more than $50. The difference in performance is vast - not to mention the experience of living with a silent SSD vs a spinning, vibrating hard drive.
Yeah but guess what? I use my NVMe ssd in my 17 R5 as the boot and the HDD as storage and it’s pretty silent because All I hear is just the fans spinning at a low rpm.
I will probably just go with what you said a 7200rpm hdd but does the screws, cable and protection box that we see in the service manual are already in the laptop or do I have to try to get a set somewhere ?
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Any standard 7 mm drive will work -- there are only three manufacturers of 2.5" drives left: WD, Toshiba and Seagate. Either of the first two is a good choice.
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I will try to check on them. Do I need some specific cables or anything ?
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October 15th, 2020 01:00
Hi
I suggest that you should not install any HDD but SSD at least.
There is no sense to use HDD in such laptop.
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October 15th, 2020 06:00
Actually What id recommend is getting a 7200RPM drive that's 1 or 1.5Tb of storage and then a NVMe PCIe SSD for the boot and that should be a 512Gb one.
Gaumut
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October 17th, 2020 19:00
I already have 1go of ssd split in the 2 slot, I just want a side memory for stuff. And Moving an outside drive all the time is annoying.
Thats why I am looking for a hdd
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October 17th, 2020 20:00
I saw talk online about peoples putting an SSD in their HDD slot. Do you think it is possible to do it in the area-51m ? Or an HDD is the only solution ?
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October 17th, 2020 22:00
I'd put the HDD because its really cheap and you can put a ton of storage with it for a cheap price and also:
RELIABILITY AND LONGEVITIY
As SSD's no matter what form factor wear out quicker than your old HDD so yeah.
Its your choice.
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October 18th, 2020 04:00
The open 2.5" drive bay will take either an SSD or a hard drive. For storage, while a hard drive will work fine, the idea that a hard drive will outlive an SSD is open to serious question. It is true that the first SSDs had much more limited read-write capacity than current ones do. Just about any current SSD from a reputable manufacturer is statistically likely to far outlive any hard drive you purchase.
Hard drives are outgoing technology, selling solely on price and quality control and engineering has taken a backseat to price. The price delta between a 1T 7200 rpm drive and a 1T 2.5 SSD is as low as $30 and rarely more than $50. The difference in performance is vast - not to mention the experience of living with a silent SSD vs a spinning, vibrating hard drive.
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October 18th, 2020 09:00
Yeah but guess what? I use my NVMe ssd in my 17 R5 as the boot and the HDD as storage and it’s pretty silent because All I hear is just the fans spinning at a low rpm.
Gaumut
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October 20th, 2020 14:00
I will probably just go with what you said a 7200rpm hdd but does the screws, cable and protection box that we see in the service manual are already in the laptop or do I have to try to get a set somewhere ?