M4300 with dual HD.

The M4300 is offered with dual HD's.

Anyone know if the M6300 can take two HD's ?

 

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See correct image below for M4300 workstation notebook configuration.
Anyone know why Dell limits the 2nd HD to 80GB (5400 rpm)?
Has anyone installed a 7200 rpm as a 2nd HD? If so what size was installed?

Anyone know if the M6300 (Dell's flagship workstation notebook) can take two HD's ? Thanks.

For some reason Dell's flagship workstation notebook, the M6300, is not offered with Vista Ultimate 64 bit nor with 2 HD's. Yet their M4300 offers both.
Has anyone installed a 2nd HD in their M6300? If so what?

I would like to buy M6300 with SSD as primary and 7200 rpm as secondary HD. Or install 2nd internal HD myself.

 

AFAIK, the M4300 does not offer the option to have two drives. It uses a similar chassis to the D830 and I'm pretty sure there isn't room for a second drive

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bwszfgp&s=bsd

Also, such seems to be the case for the M6300 which shares a similar chassis to the e1707/m1710, neither of which offer secondary drives as well.

 

Please take a look at the image file I posted. This screen snapshot clearly shows two hard drives as an option. The 2nd HD is an option being made available for the M4300 at the Dell Premier web site.

 

I'm pretty sure that option at the bottom is an external drive or an actual extra drive, otherwise it'd be grouped with the first options as with the 1730.

EDIT: Look at the Large Business options for the D630 and D430; they all have options for "additional drives" .

 

Here are the Configuration Details of a M4300 system I just put together. No delays indicated on anything. The weight of M4300 is 7.0 lbs without 2nd HD.

Date 10/8/200710:17 PM
Catalog Number 25 Retail RC974590
Dell Precision M4300 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7800 (2.60GHz, 4M L2 Cache, 800MHz) Dual Core
M43266 - [ 223-2306 ]


Operating System Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate 64-bit, with Media
VU6E - [ 420-6681 ]


Operating System Recovery Options PC Restore for Vista (on drive recovery partition)
PCRSTOR - [ 420-6581 ]


LCD Panel Options 15.4 IN WIDE WUXGA Anti-Glare LCD Panel (1920 x 1200, Wide Viewing Angle, Contrast ratio 500:1)
15WUX - [ 310-9104 ]


Touchpad Options Standard Touchpad
TPAD - [ 310-9108 ]


Keyboard Internal English Keyboard
ENG - [ 310-9110 ]


Graphics NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M, 512MB Turbo Cache memory (256 dedicated)
NVQG86 - [ 320-5486 ]


Memory 4.0GB, DDR2-667MHz SDRAM, 2 DIMMS
4G2D6 - [ 311-7223 ]


Wireless LAN (802.11) Intel® 3945 802.11a/g Dual-Band Mini Card
IPW3945 - [ 430-2379 ]


Hard Drives 32GB Solid State Hard Drive, 1.8MM
32DSS - [ 341-5109 ]


Intel Turbo Memory 1.0GB Intel Turbo Memory
1GBDFL - [ 341-4793 ]


Additional Hard Drive 80GB Hard Drive, 9.5MM, 5400RPM
80D2 - [ 341-4795 ]


Module Bay Devices 8X DVD+/-RW w/Roxio Creator™/Cyberlink PDVD™
DVDRW - [ 313-5215 ]


Floppy Drive Floppy Drive, Internal/External
FD - [ 340-7307 ]


Batteries 9 Cell Primary Battery
9CELLP - [ 312-0529 ]


AC Adapter 90W A/C Adapter
90AC - [ 310-7479 ]


System Documentation Resource DVD - Contains Diagnostics and Drivers for Vista
RDVD - [ 313-5222 ]


Carrying Cases Dell Nylon Carrying Case
LNCC - [ 310-7470 ]


External Speakers Dell A525 30 Watt 2.1 three piece Stereo Speakers with Subwoofer
A525 - [ 313-4024 ]


Installation Services No Onsite System Setup
NOINSTL - [ 900-9987 ]


External Mouse Dell Travel Mouse with Bluetooth® technology
BTTM - [ 310-9156 ]


Additional Power Cords / AC Adapters Dell Additional Slim 65W Auto/Air/AC Adapter
SAUAIR2 - [ 310-8984 ]


Hardware Support Services 3 Year Limited Warranty plus 3 Year NBD On-Site Service
UI3OS - [ 982-7862983-2330987-3818987-3897 ]

 

The 2nd HD apparently goes in the media bay which is still an internal HD. Which makes for two internal HD, with primary SSD (32GB) and 2nd 80GB for data storage as one possible option.