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post #1 of 8
9/7/10 at 11:12pm
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I have a Toshiba M55-S239 with 100gb ATA-6 hard drive.
Wanted to upgrade to 320 gb until i found out that i cant do this. My question is now can i run the OS on a portable drive and keep my 100gb drive for data, or run the OS on the 100gb drive and keep data on a portable drive. My computer has a Firewire connection.

Regards, BD
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post #2 of 8
9/8/10 at 6:42am
Just get an external SATA hgousing with either a firewire or USB connection to notebook and you are set for a good 320GB portable data drive.

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post #3 of 8
9/8/10 at 6:45am
To answer your query from the other thread, it is not so much a constraint of OS but with the drive controller and BIOS combined.

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post #4 of 8
9/8/10 at 12:01pm
We are now seeing that 100GB can be upgraded to as high as 320 gb in an IDE connection. Toshiba did further testing on compatibility of drives.
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post #5 of 8
9/8/10 at 5:58pm
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Originally Posted by NPD_MVK View Post
We are now seeing that 100GB can be upgraded to as high as 320 gb in an IDE connection. Toshiba did further testing on compatibility of drives.
This would be interesting . keep us update on this would ya?

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post #6 of 8
9/8/10 at 6:23pm
Will do :-)
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post #7 of 8
9/9/10 at 4:52am
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Originally Posted by bluedragon View Post
I have a Toshiba M55-S239 with 100gb ATA-6 hard drive.
Wanted to upgrade to 320 gb until i found out that i cant do this. My question is now can i run the OS on a portable drive and keep my 100gb drive for data, or run the OS on the 100gb drive and keep data on a portable drive. My computer has a Firewire connection.

Regards, BD
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Originally Posted by qhn View Post
Just get an external SATA hgousing with either a firewire or USB connection to notebook and you are set for a good 320GB portable data drive.

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Let me expand this a bit further. You would get an external SATA housing - this lets you installing any SATA drives sizes that you want, then connect this to your USB or firewire depending on the external housing ports support.

5400rpm SATA drive should do, but 7200RPM are a bit faster, still the constraint is the throughput via the Firewire and USB connections.

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post #8 of 8
9/9/10 at 8:39am
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Thanks, Regards, BD.
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