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    Acer 5920 Upgrade

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by kriss9000, Apr 21, 2011.

  1. kriss9000

    kriss9000 Newbie

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    Hi,

    Does anyone know if the Acer Aspire 5920 can support a second internal hard drive?

    Also what is the maximum capacity hard drive that this model supports?

    I have checked the user guide and website and they are unclear on this.

    Thanks in advance.
     
    kriss9000, Apr 21, 2011
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    chris9191 Notebook Guru

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    I think 80% of most laptops can usually hold as much as the 2.5hhd will give

    like 1TB 500GB 1.5TB

    and i think that it can only hold 1 HHD. (from a quick search)
     
    chris9191, Apr 21, 2011
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    Full-English Notebook Deity

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    I've owned a 5920 in the past and can 100% confirm it will only support 1 2.5 inch HDD. So if you want another HDD, an external is the way to go.

    I'm also pretty sure there are no limitations on what size HDD the system can hold. I can't confirm this 100% and if I'm wrong, hopefully someone can put it right, but I've never heard of limitations on HDD's on laptops, not SATA ones anyway!!!
     
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    kriss9000 Newbie

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    Thank you everyone for your help.

    Bo0bz - I really like the look of that solution. The webpage indicates that the caddy interface is PATA. I thought that the Acer 5920 optical drive had a SATA interface. Am I wrong?

    Kind regards,

    Kriss
     
    kriss9000, Apr 22, 2011
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    MaLLy_R Notebook Enthusiast

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    Mine Aspire 5920G has SATA HDD and PATA optical. Im guessing so has yours...
     
    MaLLy_R, Apr 22, 2011
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    triturbo Long live 16:10 and MXM-B

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    There are cheaper solutions over eBay, you can check them as well, but NewmodeUS is better built.
     
    triturbo, Apr 23, 2011
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    Just in case anyones interested I emailed Acer Tech Support on this and they replied today to the effect that the 5920 will support a second internal hdd but that the BIOS will only recognise up to 250GB!

    That sounds a bit on the low side to me. Any thoughts anybody?
     
    kriss9000, Apr 26, 2011
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    triturbo Long live 16:10 and MXM-B

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    Well, I have 750GB Scorpio Black as primary and my 2 year old 500GB Scorpio Blue as secondary drive in the optical bay. You know, maybe Acer's support is pointing to the unused SATA "connector" inside the laptop. It is there on the MoBo, but without the connector itself and without the transistors/resistors necessarily for proper work, simply because there isn't enough room for second internal HDD. It's right behind the TV Tuner/Robson mPCIe slot. BTW The optical bay is PATA, just in case you don't know yet.
     
    triturbo, Apr 27, 2011
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