Assistance with a hard drive upgrade....

I've got $125 to spend on Amazon.com, plus another $100 that I can use if I need to. I would rather not use the extra $100 if I don't have to though.

Anyways, long story short, I need some help finding the right type of hard drive to upgrade to. Could anyone give me some info on which one I should order? I would like to stick to a 7200rpm drive if possible...

I already have a 500gb 7200rpm that came factory...

Also any tips on how to clone my current hard drive over to the new one once I buy it would also be awesome. I understand I can probably find most of the information on cloning my drive online, but I thought "since we're all here, what the heck"

 

I think you already have the fastest hard drive available on the system other then a ssd. If you want to upgrade i recommend you to upgrade to a ssd. Other then that you can add another hard drive by removing the optical drive and replace it with another hard drive. There a guide on the forum that show you how to do that. I'm not really should about cloning a hard drive. You didn't specify what you want to upgrade the hard drive to. You want to upgrade to a bigger hard drive or a faster one? Because for a standard hard drive 7200rpm is the fastest for the M15x and I think 500gb is the largest you can get.

 

Sorry about that, I was hoping to get a 1tb 7200rpm, I wouldn't pass up a 1.5tb or 2tb 7200 rpm either though!

So long story short...

I have $125 on Amazon.com, I can spend as much as $225 though, want a 1tb or larger HDD, and want to stick to 7200rpm. I've looked myself numerous times but I don't wanna buy the wrong type of HDD so that's why I'm asking here.

Thanks again for any help/time invested in helping, its greatly appreciated!

 

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Scorpio-Notebook-WD10TPVT/dp/B0034ZD5P0/ref=pd_sim_e_1

Nvm, its not 7200, but I believe thats the best you can get.

 

Ok first off, why do you want to upgrade, if your looking for speed a 1tb 7200 rpm HDD isnt going to be any faster then the one you have, for speed get a SDD( your budget will not allow this ). OR if your looking for more storage do like dttran83 said get another HDD and replace your OD, here is the guide to replacing your OP with a HD

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m15x/481238-guide-m15x-optical-drive-hdd-caddy-installation-56k-warning.html

 

As far as i know, there is not such thing as a 2.5" 1tb internal HDD.

 

Awesome, thanks a lot for the help. I was more looking for space more than speed. It looks like I'll be waiting for some 1tb 2" internal HDDs to become available.


Thanks again guys!

 

Np problem. anytime ! let me know if you need help.

 

What if I was to buy this 128g SSD- Amazon.com: Kingston SSDNow V100 128GB SATA II 3GB/s 2.5 Inch Solid State Drive SV100S2/128GZ: Electronics and install Windows 7 and games on that, then switch my 500gb HDD over to the Optical bay for my music and videos and such? Would that work? If so, what would I need?

I've read http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...drive-hdd-caddy-installation-56k-warning.html and I don't know which of the caddy's I would need to buy to switch over my factory HDD to the optical bay.

Thanks once again for your help guys!