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    Acer Aspire 7745G Hard Drive Upgrade help.

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Raycaster, Apr 13, 2011.

  1. Raycaster

    Raycaster Notebook Enthusiast

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    Now that the ASPIRE 7745G is running smooth its time to think of an hard drive upgrade.

    Don't really want to spend more than $150 so I can go with a cheap 80G SSD or a 500G Momentus XT.

    The unit had 2 drive bays which I assume I can swap the first one out no problem.

    Questions:

    I can clone the drive etc. no problem but is the swap a simple hardware swap or do I need special kits?

    Don't really need 2 X 500G drives so would the SSD be the better solution or is the Momentus XT almost as good?

    thx ahead of time.
     
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  2. Ryssen12

    Ryssen12 Notebook Consultant

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  3. LaptopEMT

    LaptopEMT Company Representative

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    I am not 100% sure about the acers that can have double hard drives but i do know that on the HPs that have that ability you have to have another hard drive caddy if it does not already have the hard drive installed which are pretty cheap on eBay

    About whether you should use SSD or 2x500gb.... If the computer is moved A LOT and you are using it on the go get the SSD. The number one part that fails in a Laptop is the hard drive because of the movement of the computer the disk gets scratched as where SSD does not have that problem. If the computer spends most of the time on a desk i would probably take the space over the technology.


    Thanks
    Mike
    LaptopEMT
    Laptop Repair Specialist
     
    LaptopEMT, Apr 14, 2011
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