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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: packers08 on November 18, 2011, 11:05:34 PM

Title: upgrading laptop hard drive
Post by: packers08 on November 18, 2011, 11:05:34 PM

I have a sony vaio laptop, current HDD is 320 GB; can I upgrade to "Hitachi Travelstar HDD: 5K500 B-500 / Model: HTS545050B9A300" ?

Title: Re: upgrading laptop hard drive
Post by: reddevilggg on November 19, 2011, 08:34:41 AM

Yes, but why do you want to ?? You'll be paying $100 for 120GB extra.

Why is backing-up your files, to give more space, not an option?

Title: Re: upgrading laptop hard drive
Post by: truenorth on November 19, 2011, 03:09:36 PM

OR purchase an External HDD of whatever size that suits your needs. truenorth

Title: Re: upgrading laptop hard drive
Post by: Lisa_maree on November 20, 2011, 12:11:21 AM

Hi

Sony Viao Laptops are some of the hardest laptops to get at the hard drive. Normally you have to  remove the keyboard and front palm rest. If this is the case then i would agree with getting an external hard drive. If you do replace the internal drive either copy the current drive to the new one or make the viao recovery dvd's, well you should have done that already.  This will allow you to restore the laptop to factory.