Latitude X1 has room for 2 hard drives?

[Tostada]

If you go to Customize:

Additional Hard Drives
None
40GB Hard Drive, 9.5MM, 5400RPM [add $199 or $6/month1]
80GB Hard Drive, 9.5MM, 5400RPM [add $150 or $4/month1]

What's that all about? The primary hard drive is 8mm (so is that a 1.8" drive?) but this makes it sound like it comes with room for a 2nd hard drive that is bigger than the primary one. That can't be right.

If it actually did have room for a 9.5mm hard drive, I suppose I'd want to get a 7200RPM drive to stick in it.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Call Dell

 

[trikster2]

What's an X2?

If you mean the X1 then the order page is correct.

The Lattitdue series have a funky "integrated D/Bay connector" essentialy a powerd USB port that lets you do an external optical drive or hard drive and power the drives off the laptop power. Believe you can only have one hooked up at a time and you are still limited to USB 2.0 speed.

Until I looked into your question, I did not know that! I always wondered though why one of my USB connectors looks funky. Now I know...

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/learnmo...ne=notebooks&~mode=popup&~series=latit

So the answer is yes you can have a second hard drive (good), but no it's not in the mini X1 laptop it's external (bad) BUT you don't need a power brick for that extrernal hard drive (good). But you don't need a power brick for must 2.5" USB external hard drives so what's the point (bad). But you can swap an optical into the bay too and most external optical drives do need a power brick so I guess that ends on a good thing?

Dell is charging through the nose for that external drive. If there was some way to get the external D-Bay carrier and buy your own drive would probably save a few bucks.......


All that said if you just need the external HD and you don't need an external CD you are better off with something like this $7.95 external enclosure:

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SLIM-USB20-25

And whatever 2.5" drive floats your boat.



Cute picture of the X1
http://img.dell.com/images/global/products/latit/x1_inside_d810_314x314.jpg

 

[Tostada]

Thanks!

Originally posted by: trikster2
Cute picture of the X1
http://img.dell.com/images/global/products/latit/x1_inside_d810_314x314.jpg

I think the 6000 is trying to take advantage of the X1.

So, if I get the X1 I'm pretty much stuck with the 8mm internal drive... and that is a 1.8" drive, right? So there's no chance of me getting a decent performance drive for the thing.

All the specs say is that it's an 8mm drive, but I think the smallest 2.5" drives are 9.5mm.

I really want a light laptop, but I run some fairly HDD-intensive database stuff sometimes, so I want something that I can put a 7200RPM drive in. It looks like I'll have to get the 700M if I want something small.