2TB SATA HDD for M17x R3

hello all, I'm finding 1TB isnt quite enough, but struggling to find any 2TB HDD's. Can someone point me in the direction of one?

Thanks!

 

Here ya go, except its 15mm tall. Standard is 9.5mm. 12mm will work in the optical drive bay.

Newegg.com - Western Digital Green WD20NPVT 2TB IntelliPower 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Just put a pair of 1TB drives in the optical bay, and the secondary HDD slot.

 

nice, so it wont fit in the allocated HDD bay?

what about a 1.5TB?

Thanks!

(Also UK sellers if poss )

 

You can also build a either 2TB or 1.5TB Raid 0 if you want to have that amount of storage.

 

1.5 TB are like 12 or 15mm, same deal won't fit.

 

2TB with 15mm will work white the Optical drive Bay. I have on WDC20PVNT in my m17x r2. That leaves an extra HDD drive empty for other cool stuff

 

how can i replace my faulty odd with a hdd, any type of caddy needed? if so where can i find one? please help.

will this product work well??

Amazon.com: NEW SATA 2nd HDD caddy for 12.7mm Universal CD/DVD-ROM: Computers & Accessories

 

What caddy are you using (if you're using a caddy at all)? I've tried a 12.5mm on an R3 and R4 and it just barely fit. 15mm would not leave enough room for the breather hole.

This is what I have. Two 750GB WD Scorpio Blacks in RAID 0 to make a 1.5TB volume. Only filled up 1TB so far!@!

Seriously, though. There are no viable single drive options over 1TB for laptops right now. The 12.5mm and 15mm 2.5" drives are meant for server racks and such. Not only that, the WD green series sucks something awful. For that reason, I would recommend you stay away from the WDC20NPVT. Best getup would be for you to get another 1TB drive (identical to the one you've got right now, and an ODD to hard drive caddy ( 2nd HDD or SSD Caddy for Alienware M15x (replaces optical drive) [OBHD-SATA12-SATA-NF] - $43.00 : NewmodeUS, Hard Drive Caddys for Notebooks) and just RAID both the 1TB drives together into a 2TB volume. There are 1.5 TB 2.5" notebook drives, but they will also be 15mm tall.

 

Your best bet is to get a couple of 1 TB HDDs or that massive Crucial M500 960 GB SSD and raid them.

 

Cheaper from Amazon and Prime free 2 day shipping!

Amazon.com: WD Green 2 TB Mobile Hard Drive: 2.5 Inch, SATA II, 8 MB Cache - WD20NPVT: Computers & Accessories

It will easily fit in the ODD bay. Just buy one of these and mod it:

Amazon.com: Hard Drive Caddy Tray for Apple Unibody MacBook / MacBook Pro 13 15 17 SuperDrive (Replacement Only): Computers & Accessories

Why does the Green series suck? Reviewers are reporting 110mb/s transfer rate which is very plausible given that they are double the density of 1gb drives and I easily get 65mb/s transfer from my WD 1tb 2.5" drives.

Not only that, it runs at a cool, quiet and energy sipping ~5k rpm.

Also, the drive caddy you linked is way expensive. No need to spend $45-50 on a drive caddy. The ~$10 ones having been working just fine for millions of people.

 

Seems like it. Have you disassembled your R3 before? You'll need to tear it down quite a bit to get to the ODD.

M17x R3/R4 complete teardown

 

Yes, you'll need to remove the front bezel though. Not hard to do, it's a snap in snap out thing.

 

I agree, the newmodeus drive caddy has gone up to much in price. I got it for $20 some years ago. But the WD green series are notorious for failing. I personally have had multiple WD green series drives failed, and so have several other forum members. Here, educate yourself: http://forum.notebookreview.com/off-topic/638752-alternative-randomness-neu-clique-381.html

Read thru Vogelbungs, HTWingnuts, and my posts. We've all had multiple WD green drives that have crashed and burned (in once case, 9 different drives).
If there were only 2-3 failures, I could drive it out to being a production error or something. But the Green drives are failing too much...