Upgrading hard drive

Question

Hey!

I have a Inspiron 8600 XP Home and I wanna upgrade my hard drive from 40 GB to a higher one to about 80 GB. I just got this lap top around July of this year. I was just wondering if I could upgrade and how I can upgrade it and all other info such as cost and so on. Thank YOU!

ejn63 · Answer

You can use any 2.5' 9mm drive you wish. An 80G drive will run $150-175 depending on speed - no one is volume-shipping 7200 rpm drives over 60G, though, so 5400 will likely be the limit. There are a gew 100G drives now appearing on the market - they're relatively expensive and can be slower (4200) than the lower-capacity drives.

Steve1077 · Answer

I heard Hitachi are going to release a 100gb drive like ejn63 said, so maybe you should wait a while, the smaller ones may come down in price Message Edited by Steve1077 on 10-08-2004 02:02 PM

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Upgrading hard drive

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