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    Maximum Hard Drive Thickness?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by chris89, Dec 14, 2011.

  1. chris89

    chris89 Notebook Consultant

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    I have an ASUS k53sv-xr1 and I just bid on a 750gb seagate 7200rpm hard drive to upgrade the 5400rpm 640gb in it now. However after I bid on that 750gb, I saw there were 1tb 7200rpm 2.5" drives, but are 15mm thick and not the 9.5mm typical thickness. I can see about an additional 5mm of room in my hard drive bay of the laptop. However I wanted to see what you guy's have been able to do? On any asus laptop for that matter? My other question is what gains in performance did u guy's see? When I copy big files I get about 40-75MB/s write but it seems to slow down over time, like i copy 3 5gb files at 75MB/s then on the 4th, 5th and 6th they graduallly slow down to about 40MB/s. On lots of small files I see like 19MB/s write! I hope this minimum copy rate will be more like 50-60MB/s on a 7200rpm drive....

    THANKS

    I'm disk checking and repairing sectors, yes all 4,557,000 of them! Maybe it'll help...
     
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  2. GenTechPC

    GenTechPC Company Representative

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    K53 series won't fit 15mm drive, it's too thick for the slot and the brackets. 9.5mm is the limit.

    the transfer rate won't be consistent, the max transfer rate peak at large files.

    If you want faster transfer rate look for the new Seagate 750GB 2.5" XT hybrid drive SATA 3 6gb/s.
     
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    chris89 Notebook Consultant

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    That drive sounds unreal but it's probably like $250 from what I've seen on 2.5" sata3 drives. I'm going to try and get this seagate 750gb 7200rpm for under $80... My current Hitachi 640gb 5400rpm performs pretty crappy. However I saw a huge difference in performance comparing IDE and AHCI on my laptop. Multitasking is impossible with IDE mode.

    Thanks man! even know that kinda sucks.... Know anyone who's fit a thick 15mm drive in as asus laptop with mods?
     
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    If you want 1TB drive Samsung does make 9.5mm 5400rpm drive and it will fit perfectly in K53 series or any other Asus laptops.

    You can't mod the chassis. the depth of the hard drive slot and SATA connector has to match the drive, if you put in a 15mm drive then the connector on the drive will be too tall and won't even go into the SATA connector of the laptop,
     

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