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June 21st, 2009 14:00
XPS M2010 HDD replacement
I am enjoying my Dell XPS M2010 for about one and a half year now and exept for a battery upgrade and ram upgrade to 4GB instead of 2GB I've not done anything to it. It's a great laptop(travel-desktop) but since I see I'm running low on disk space I think it's time for a HDD upgrade.
I innitialy bought the laptop with 1 internal HDD which is 120GB. Now I'm carrying 2 external drives with a total size of 1TB each and they are aswell becoming low on space. My thought was to place 2 new HDD in my laptop and I've already purchased the parts needed to place 2 HDD instead of 1 from the local dell manufacturer. However, I'm wondering which HDD would give the best performance and ofcourse in which setup? I'm also interested in SSD drives but I'm not sure if thats a possibility?
Thanx in advance
nivek777
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June 23rd, 2009 11:00
In other words, does the XPS M2010 support 2,5 inch SATA HDD with 1000 RPM? Or even SDD HDD?
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June 23rd, 2009 11:00
If you mean 10,000 rpm - no. There are no 2.5" SATA notebook drives at 10,000 rpm - YES, there is the WD Velociraptor and Seagate, Fujitsu 10K 2.5" drives, but they're server drives - not for notebook use.
A solid state drive will work as well - you will sacrifice a lot of capacity and money for speed, though.
nivek777
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July 5th, 2009 04:00
so it would not be possible to use this s-ata 2.5 inch HDD?
Western Digital WD3000BLFS
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=494
if not, what would be the problem in placing it in a laptop?
anyways, anyone has a suggestion on what specific drive to use performance wise?
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July 5th, 2009 05:00
Though it's a 2.5" drive, the Velociraptor is a desktop drive - it is not designed for notebook use. It will not be properly cooled in a notebook, and will cause overheating - and if memory serves, WD placed the connectors in such a way that it won't line up with a notebook system.
7200 rpm is as fast as notebook drives are made.
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July 25th, 2009 14:00
I put an Intel 80GB SSD as first drive, second drive is a WD 500GB. Even though I only get about 120MB/sec instead of 250MB/sec it's faster than a 7200rpm drive. My XPS boots in 20 seconds with Vista, T7600.