E4200 - There must be a hard drive out there bigger than 128gb

so theres no way to fit a 2nd hard drive in there somewhere, eepc i hacked a second hard drive !!!

 

Ignore the pic, it's not representative of the part. The actual drive is BARE. No casing. Please look through the E4200 Info thread for details. There is plenty on this there. And yes, it's expensive but you should be able to get it on eBay for less than $300.

 

The original post mentions hard drives, not SSDs.

Why wouldn't a mechanical drive work provided it is the right size and has the right interface?

John

 

Oh a good question. And the answer is here.

There isn't enough room for even a 5mm 1.8 incher with a uSATA interface to go in there.

 

Thanks for the clarification. That storage device is best called a memory card and not an SSD.

John

 

No, it is very much a SSD. Come to think of it, all SSDs are storage cards really, they are just encased so they look normal. Lay any of them bare, and they look like the pic above. I would agree with you, if it used a proprietary connector. It doesn't. Even the PCI-E devices used in the older Eee netbooks and the prolific Mini 9 use cards, but no one calls them that. They are called Solid State Disks, which is a bit of a misnomer really, since there is no disk. I think we are moving away from that nomenclature and starting to use Solid State Device.

By the way, the X360 uses a similar SSD in the higher-end model except I think it's encased. That's all.

Edit: I think you may be calling it a card based on my post. When I posted that, there was little to no information on the E4200 last year. I certainly didn't have my own. Once I was able to get my hands on one, I was able to take it apart and remove the drive amongst other things and eventually a chap called Big Mike pointed me in the right direction of the MicroSATA interface. I couldn't figure out the pins since I had never seen them before, they are different from the standard 2.5" SATA pins and provide 3.3 Volts of power as opposed to 5V. You figure all this out in time.