laptop hard drives

[lufiron]

hey guys, been a long time since ive posted. used to follow hardware much more closely (when i was in college) but haven't had the time recently. i have a laptop thats dying, i want to swap hard drive. its an dell inspiron e1405, how do i find out what type of laptop hard drives are compatible? can't seem to find a clear answer online. could also consider an SSD, if it would work. ideas?

 

[Burner27]

Originally spec'd it comes with an 80GB Hitachi SATA HDD, so you could put an SSD in there if you wanted. I do not know what your space requirements are but I wouldn't go with anything less than a 120GB SSD. If you are feeling spend-thrifty and can afford a 256GB SSD then that might be worth it but then you are putting a drive in a machine that is worth more than the machine itself.

You may want to consider this drive:

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Momen...1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1327769182&sr=1-1

Hybrid drive with SSD/HDD combined!

 

[kbp]

Get an SSD. You can always move it to the next laptop. You'll love the boot times.

 

[Coup27]

Originally spec'd it comes with an 80GB Hitachi SATA HDD, so you could put an SSD in there if you wanted. I do not know what your space requirements are but I wouldn't go with anything less than a 120GB SSD. If you are feeling spend-thrifty and can afford a 256GB SSD then that might be worth it but then you are putting a drive in a machine that is worth more than the machine itself.

You may want to consider this drive:

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Momen...1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1327769182&sr=1-1

Hybrid drive with SSD/HDD combined!

+1.

If you can afford an SSD, get one. If you need a lot of space and cannot afford that on an SSD, get a hybrid drive. If you are new to SSDs, I would look at the Intel 320 series, Samsung 830 series or Crucial m4 series.

Burner, thats a 1st gen hybrid. Are the second gens out with 8GB NAND yet?