Upgrading Hard Drive

[abtruce]

I have a Dell Inspiron 510m. I want to upgrade my hard drive. Is there any limit?? And how would I know if i have more than one slot for hard drives??

 

[DaveSimmons]

the only laptops with 2 internal drive holders are the 15-pound gaming laptops, you only have room for 1 drive.

Your laptop should support every 2.5" laptop drive out there (you can't use a 3.5" desktop drive).

 

[GrammatonJP]

My dell d800 has 2 hitachi 7200 in it..

it looks like your d510 doesn't support 2 drives

 

[Nocturnal]

I believe the largest 2.5" hard drive is 100GB made by Seagate.

 

[Bobthelost]

Nope there are 160GB 2.5" drives, i'd stick to 5400 rpm, 7200 may be pushing the thermal envelope too far.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

As for it working with ALL formats. They used to all be a form of ATA. But isn't a version of SATA moving into some of the laptops and their corresponding drives? So there may have to be a check on that.

 

[Koharski]

yeah, there are laptops with SATA now. How much speed differnece is there between 7200 and 5400? Even my old 40gb drice from ~2000 ish is 7200.