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    Vostro 1500 and Inspiron 1520 Hard Drive Specs with Intel CPU?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by dscrap, Sep 10, 2007.

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    dscrap Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just ordered a Vostro 1500 with the base hard drive, 80GB. I plan on upgrading it to a larger hard drive in the future. I searched the Dell support site and couldn't find any specifics on the hard drive besides 5400 RPM SATA. What drives do they use in these? Are the drives still 2.5 inches and are they 1.5 gb/s or 3.0 gb/s? Will the 3.0 gb/s drive work? Will the motherboard recognize it as 3.0 GB/s or just 1.5 GB/s? Any suggestions on the best hard drive to get? I am looking for a 160GB or larger drive.

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    dscrap, Sep 10, 2007
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