Hello,
I hope some one can give me some advice about upgrading the hard drive on my Sager 9880 laptop. I got it from an engineering student at Gerogia Tech that needed something a little more portable. He bought it from PC Torque in August this year and it supposedly has a 3 year extended warranty, also purchased from PC Torque. Repeated phone calls and emails to PC Torque about my questions have gotten zero response. I hope members of this forum can answer some my questions and keep me from maybe making a big mistake. I would like to add a 7200 rpm, 100 gb drive to the existing 60 gb x 7200 rpm drive. I am considering a Hitachi travelstar unit. First, does anyone know if I install a new drive myself, will it void the supposed warranty on the machine? The owner's manual raises some questions about this. Second, is this the best choice for an additional hard drive? What is the performance gain of a 7200 vs. 5400 rpm drive and is the performance/price ratio in line? Also, I would like to replace the existing dvd-cdrw optical drive with a dvd burner that has dual layer capability. Any recommendations for this? All replies are greatly aprreciated. By the way, I love this laptop. It is awesome.
I hope some one can give me some advice about upgrading the hard drive on my Sager 9880 laptop. I got it from an engineering student at Gerogia Tech that needed something a little more portable. He bought it from PC Torque in August this year and it supposedly has a 3 year extended warranty, also purchased from PC Torque. Repeated phone calls and emails to PC Torque about my questions have gotten zero response. I hope members of this forum can answer some my questions and keep me from maybe making a big mistake. I would like to add a 7200 rpm, 100 gb drive to the existing 60 gb x 7200 rpm drive. I am considering a Hitachi travelstar unit. First, does anyone know if I install a new drive myself, will it void the supposed warranty on the machine? The owner's manual raises some questions about this. Second, is this the best choice for an additional hard drive? What is the performance gain of a 7200 vs. 5400 rpm drive and is the performance/price ratio in line? Also, I would like to replace the existing dvd-cdrw optical drive with a dvd burner that has dual layer capability. Any recommendations for this? All replies are greatly aprreciated. By the way, I love this laptop. It is awesome.
