E5550 9.5mm hard drive possible?

Hi asinger1989,

You can use only 7mm HDD on LATITUDE E5550.

thats bad :(

all my hdds are 9.5mm.

9.5mm and 12mm drives are too thick to go into the case.

This is an issue with Really Large or Really Old Drives.

I use 9.5mm 1TB drives with my Lenovo and want to replace it with Dell - but it is bad news I cannot use my drives. Not going to move to SSD!

So seems that Dell is not good for me :(

can I add a second drive on that Dell?

does it have a mSATA internal slot?

thanks

It's either mSATA or 2.5" - not both.   One drive.  There's no optical drive slot so that's not available either.

Look at the 6540 -- the feature set is more what you're looking for.

You give up quite a bit for the sake of the slimmer chassis in the E5550.

well I was looking at the E555o for its IPS panel, not for being slim. In fact, it is not a good choice to have removed the optical drive - it removes too many options for a business customer.

It is like a pest nowadays... either clickpad (hate it), or not upgradeable, no IPS screen (lenovo), or only 7mm drives (or all of them).

Hi

I wonder if the E5550 when bought with a SSD inside, can be "upgraded" to a 7mm HDD - or will it be missing the HDD metal caddy (SSD in different format than a 7mm HDD?).

someone knows?

thanks.

Hi asinger1989,

The SSD configured with this model would be 7mm SSD and compatible caddy would be used.

I use a ssd with my E5550, you can upgrade to the Seagate SSHD 500Gb model.