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Is this hdd compatible with the XPS Gen 2?

post #1 of 6
6/21/06 at 9:52pm
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http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...acture=Seagate

My 100 gb hdd is not cutting it anymore. Is it easy to replace? Any guides available on the web?
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post #2 of 6
6/21/06 at 11:15pm
Yes. It's ATA/100 - Gen2/M170s don't have SATA. Plug and play - undo the two screws under the PCMCIA slot, and the hard drive slides right out. Unscrew the old'un and screw in the new'un. Just make sure to have the Windows disk ready to go on first boot.

Might not be a bad idea to get your drivers ready, either.
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post #3 of 6
6/21/06 at 11:56pm
It is extremely easy to replace the drive, getting your data transfer is not so easy though. It is so simple on dell notebooks, pretty much two screws and the drive pops right out, here is the dell docs:
http://support.dell.com/support/edoc....htm#wp1123687
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post #4 of 6
6/21/06 at 11:58pm
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Originally Posted by CurseoftheGods
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...acture=Seagate

My 100 gb hdd is not cutting it anymore. Is it easy to replace? Any guides available on the web?

Are you sure you want to put something in with those low rpm's?
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post #5 of 6
6/22/06 at 12:01am
It is probably about as fast as a 100 GB 7200 RPM because of the increase in aerial density, atleast for file transfers, and much faster for the first 100 GB.
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post #6 of 6
6/22/06 at 12:16am
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Originally Posted by jeep4x4
Are you sure you want to put something in with those low rpm's?


They have shown in quite a few comparisons in laptop HD's that 5400 vs 7200 makes almost no difference for day to day use. Only under heavy sustained transfer (moving 20 gigs onto the drive from some other high speed source, like another hard drive) does it actually help, and even then just a little bit.

7200 RPM drives still transfer for crap compared to what the data bus can handle, thats why you get a big cache.

So no, he wont have any performance issues going with a 5400 RPM, thats more of a myth than anything in the laptop realm.
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