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    XPS M1210 with 2nd hard drive (Origin Storage media bay)?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by z33driver, May 16, 2007.

  1. z33driver

    z33driver Newbie

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    Hello,

    I am really close to pulling the trigger on one of these XPS M1210 units through Dell Outlet. The price is really compelling. I do a lot of software development work with Visual Studio 2005 and other tools open, often multiple instances of each (for instance, for merging code changes from one branch of our code to the trunk). I am also tired of carrying a 17" machine around (Inspiron 9300).

    What I'd like to do is pull out the optical drive and put a 2nd 7200 rpm hard drive in to run the windows paging file on. I rarely use the optical drive and I have external drives already (DVD/RW, CD/RW, portable CDROM, etc.). I found Origin Storage who makes media bay carriers, but the M1210 is not specifically listed as supported.

    I was wondering if anyone on here has successfully used one of these kits on an M1210?

    Thanks,
    Joe
     
    z33driver, May 16, 2007
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  2. MelchiorZ

    MelchiorZ Notebook Consultant

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    Haven't heard of anyone using it...

    But maybe you should just get 4GBs of RAM instead. They are about $200 a pop (newegg), though the patriot one had a recent $50 rebate as well, so you could wait for that to happen again ...
     
    MelchiorZ, May 16, 2007
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  3. nquach

    nquach Notebook Consultant

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    I did exactly that on my Latitude with 2 160 drives. Do you know if the optical drive on the M1210 modular?

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    I just checked with Dell. The M1210 is a fixed bay drive so no you cannot replace it with a secondary drive.
     
    nquach, May 16, 2007
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  4. PhoenixFx

    PhoenixFx Notebook Virtuoso

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    There wont be any noticeable performance difference by having the swap file on a different disk. Get more RAM and one 7200 RPM disk instead. Besides, even if you could run 2 HDDs it will drain the battery like crazy.
     
    PhoenixFx, May 16, 2007
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