The HD on my brother's laptop, a Dell Latitude CSx, has gone dead and it's far past warranty. He needs the laptop for school, so I figured it would be nice to replace the drive and to get it working again. I've found what looks to be a decent hard drive, a Samsung Spinpoint 40Gb, 5400Rpm, 8Mb cache drive for about $80 on directron.com. It's the right form factor and interface and everything, but my question: before I purchase and attempt to use this drive, will a higher speed, higher capacity, non-standard drive even work? The drive in there is ~10Gb, 4200rpm (or lower?) and must have an ATA-66 or slower interface. Would the laptop subsystems be able to handle the newer drive? What about power requirements for the newer drive, would replacing it mean cutting battery life?
Like I said, the laptop is a Latitude CSx, and aside from that, I don't know much about it, so whatever help you can offer would be great, thanks.
BTW - does anyone know what kind of memory it uses? If my brother has to squeeze a few more years out of it, it'd be nice if we could upgrade that too, thanks.
Like I said, the laptop is a Latitude CSx, and aside from that, I don't know much about it, so whatever help you can offer would be great, thanks.
BTW - does anyone know what kind of memory it uses? If my brother has to squeeze a few more years out of it, it'd be nice if we could upgrade that too, thanks.
