Hard Drive Support

AMO

Hi,

I am looking at replacing the hard drive in my laptop to speed things up.

I know that:
The notebook will support up to 60GB Ultra DMA 133IDE drives.

Does this mean that I can't buy larger hard drives or does it mean that I can buy larger hard drives but I must format it so that I can only see the first 60Gb?

Thanx

AMO

espresso

Why will a larger hard drive speed things up?

AMO

Any speed increases will probably be negligable.

However, because my laptop has maximum capacity of 60Gb, at the moment, the 2.5" drives that I can find that run at 7200RPM are very few. If they stop making drives of this size, I want to know if there are any problems installing a larger one even if all the disk space can't be used.

Thanx

AMO

Beebe

Hi

There should be any problems. your laptop will see it as a 60gb cus thats all it knows and function as if it is a 60gb.

movieman

I'm not so sure: that may just be the largest disk available at the time the laptop was released.

The usual limits on disk size are 8GB, 32GB and 128GB with an old BIOS and/or operating system. I'm not aware of any BIOS, hardware or OS limitation that would restrict you to a 60GB disk.

AMO

movieman wrote:

I'm not so sure: that may just be the largest disk available at the time the laptop was released.

The usual limits on disk size are 8GB, 32GB and 128GB with an old BIOS and/or operating system. I'm not aware of any BIOS, hardware or OS limitation that would restrict you to a 60GB disk.

Thanx. I have an Evesham Voyager Pro 64 laptop. Got this info from tech support...

Your notebook is based on a Mitac 8355 chassis. This will support up tp a 3900+ chip. Please note we have not tested this configuration.
The notebook will support up to 60GB Ultra DMA 133IDE drives.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/51640/evesham-voyager-64-3200.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/12/17/evesham_voyager_64_athlon/

Personally, I am not sure why it was rated so high. When I got it, I thought it was only average.

Could it be that larger hard drives would result in drawing too much power?

I know that my laptop will crash if I use a USB network adapter.

It wasn't worth me sending back my laptop to be fixed as it would take too long and cost too much.

AMO

epz_2

i seriously doubt your laptop is even limited to 120gigs, last i heard most chips had their word length upped to 48bit a fair few years ago.

the heat may be a minor issue but frankly i doubt it and with 120 gig drives starting about £66 i would go for it

AMO

I bought the machine in April 2003. Not sure if that's new enough to make a difference.

AMO