12.5mm HDD upgrade?

I own a gigantor Clevo laptop and upgraded it to a 12.5mm 1TB hard drive, and for travel I just bought a M11X at best buy (impulse buying ftw!) and had one more 12.5mm 1TB that I was going to put in a usb chassis.

Considering that the off the shelf M11X comes with a 250GB hard drive, I considered giving the 1TB a try, it did not fit. I know most laptops are built around 9mm hard drives, but after thinking about 1TB and loading my full Steam catalogue on to it..
has any serious modifications to the M11X chassis?

When you hold the M11X upside down and remove the panel, the bottom of the hdd faces you, and the top of the hdd pushes in to the inner chassis.

Would any one know if you remove a portion of the inner frame, will the laptops intrigrity be compromised? I already understand the risk with the warranty.. but I am not concerned about that, I simply want to max the lil guy out!

How many people out there may have a 1TB 11" gaming laptop??

 

you can't modify the inner chasis because you're gonna expose the motherboard and you risk to damage it, there are some 500gb 2.5" HDD that you can buy

 

Well, you could try and mod your M11x to fit a 12mm drive (which, believe me, nobody here has tried to do. That would be like keying a brand new Ferrari).

Or, you could figure out why you even want 1TB in a laptop like the M11x to begin with, and then figure out an alternative where you "get by" and "settle" for 500GB.

Personally, I would go with the 2nd option.

 

You can get a 9mm 750GB in there.

 

Went with the Seagate 500GB Hybrid drive.
I wanted 1TB just for the storage space, I've gotten tired of lugging USB hard drives around with me, and it seems that most laptops under 15" only provide one hard drive mounting space...
So it would rather frustrate me that nothing can be done to mount a larger hard drive in the little guy. Frustrate me almost to the point of trying to mod it.
But I suppose I will just end installing my 1TB drive into a USB adapter kit, and go with the Seagate 7200RPM Hybrid 500GB drive.

 

why not get a 750 GB HDD?

 

Newegg.com - Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD7500BPVT 750GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Here is a 750 GB HDD that would fit, unfortunately it is only 5400 RPM but it still is a higher capacity than 500 GB

 

I was saw the 750GB, and I realize that the 1TB I have is also low RPM and would possibly also be low performance... and most of the high performance seem to be around the 300 to 500GB range.
What I really wish for is the price for SSDs above 200GB to come down.
Though if I used a SSD I would have to plan ahead what I would install on the laptop, because I would hate to put something on my laptop with the SSD and then decide to remove it.
With a HDD you can download and install all you want and then remove it guilt free. Limited write and erase cycles, bleh.
500GB, 750GB and 1TB, I could download all I ever want to. Load up my whole Steam collection, rip all of my cds for use with iTunes, and then load all of my Anime up on it. Even though I did not want to put my 1TB into a USB portiable HDD adapter, I may end up doing that.

 

If you can't afford a high-capacity SSD right now, have you considered the Seagate Momentus XT? It's a hybrid drive... 7200rpm 500GB platter drive + 4GB of SLC NAND memory (same kind used on high-end enterprise SSDs). It performs halfway between a 2.5" 7200rpm drive and an SSD - about the same performance as a Western Digital Raptor. And it's not too expensive. It's a nice, middle-of-the-road part for people who want capacity, affordability, and speed.

 

That's what I'm using for the hdd. it is very nice

 

That's the one I went with, though I have never been a Seagate customer before, so I don't really know what to expect. Also I don't know what the life time or reliability will be with the 4GB NAND. I think when I read up on the Hybrid HDDs people had the same questions regarding the 4GB NAND part as they have had with normal SSDs, such as TRIM and erase time. Though I hear that 4GB NAND is SLC.

 

That's the one I went with, though I have never been a Seagate customer before, so I don't really know what to expect. Also I don't know what the life time or reliability will be with the 4GB NAND. I think when I read up on the Hybrid HDDs people had the same questions regarding the 4GB NAND part as they have had with normal SSDs, such as TRIM and erase time. Though I hear that 4GB NAND is SLC.

 

Im Putting a 750 WD Scorpio Black Drive in...its 7200RPM and 16mb Cache. I really need 1TB, i hope they slim it down soon. i Currently use 718GB of storage between my M11x(129 on that hdd) and my 1TB WD Passport(589 on that drive) Im not sure if a 750Gb drive will give me enough usabole space