Re: Hard drive for Dell Inspiron 5000e - place to buy
Bill Schoolcraft <[email protected]>
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richard childers / kg6hac wrote: > > <humbly_snipped> > That having been said, you may also want to consider replacing your > current hard drive with something larger; many laptops issued with 10 GB > hard drives - the limit, at their time of manufacture - can easily > contain 20, 30 or 40 GB hard drives, now that drive manufacturers can > pack two, three or four times as much data into the predetermined form > factor. </humbly_snipped> Seeing the age of the laptop/computer "Dell Inspiron 5000e" make sure your BIOS has the capacity to "SEE" the full size of the larger drives. I have a fairly new Toshiba-1715xcds and it would not see a 30-gig drive but saw a 20-gig drive fine. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"