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    Anyone ever swap out the WD or Maxtor Portable HDD for their laptop?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by XyKo, Feb 20, 2008.

  1. XyKo

    XyKo Notebook Geek

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    I have a Maxtor 160GB mini touch4 here and was thinking if it's possible to swap this hdd into my T61P. And use the laptop hdd for portable storage. If you have or know of any write out on this, please let me know. Thanks
     
    XyKo, Feb 20, 2008
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  2. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    I dunno if the hard drive inside the mini touch is a laptop hard drive exactly. Plus, it's prolly all one piece, not a hard drive inside an enclosure.
     
    adinu, Feb 20, 2008
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  3. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Usually those external drives are just a standard 3.5" or 2.5" device inside an enclosure. Granted, the enclosure is usually harder to get apart than an enclosure purchased without a hard drive, but there's no reason the drive shouldn't be a standard drive.

    I've taken apart a Maxtor OneTouch III to find a standard IDE 3.5" drive inside.

    What you don't know until you dismantle the external device is whether or not the drive in the external device is SATA or IDE.
     
    Commander Wolf, Feb 20, 2008
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  4. XyKo

    XyKo Notebook Geek

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    From what I read, the maxtor is an sata for the onetouch 4.
     
    XyKo, Feb 20, 2008
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  5. ejl

    ejl fudge

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    i've done it with a wd passport recently. if you know it is sata, you should be fine, though it may take some effort to pry apart the enclosure.
     
    ejl, Feb 20, 2008
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    prashanthm Notebook Consultant

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    My fingers & nails are still hurting with the effort of opening the new WD Passport :(
    Previous versions of WD enclosures used to have only 4 small notches at the 4 corners, but the latest ones run along the whole edge.....
     
    prashanthm, Feb 21, 2008
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