Re: Hard drive for Dell Inspiron 5000e - place to buy
John Baldwin <[email protected]>
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On 11-Nov-2003 Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > 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. I have an Inspiron 5000e which originally came with a 5 GB drive. It uses regular old ATA 2.5" drives for the primary drive though only at UDMA33 due to having a PIIX4 chipset. I've used an 18 GB drive and currently have a 40 GB drive in it. -- John Baldwin <[email protected]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"