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    Largest HD in L701X

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by ferocity02, Jun 6, 2011.

  1. ferocity02

    ferocity02 Notebook Enthusiast

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    My L701X came with just one 640Gb hard drive and it has the caddy for the 2nd HD. My question is how large of a hard drive can I put in this? Am I limited to 640Gb? Thanks!
     
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    I'd imagine you can install any 2.5", 9.5mm drive. The largest such drive you can currently buy is 750GB. There are 1TB 2.5" drives, but they are all (afaik) 12.5mm high.
     
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Again as stated above, the max is 750GB so I don't know if you want to pony up for 110 GB. Samsung is planning to release a 1 TB in 9.5mm form factor soon but it is only 5400 rpm (doesn't really matter IMO for a storage drive).

    You could also remove your optical drive and buy a HDD caddy and that is another HDD for you.
     
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    ferocity02 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok thanks! I wasn't sure if it was a physical size limitation or a capability limitation of the machine.
     
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    Well it's just a physical size limit for now (very few laptops support 12.5mm drives). There are 1.5 TB drives in the 2.5" but they are even larger (like 14-15mm).
     
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