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    Best 640Gb for a Dell M4500

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by seb87, Mar 16, 2011.

  1. seb87

    seb87 Notebook Evangelist

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    Which is the best hdd in the 640gb size ?

    i've a dell precision m4500 and i want to put a big disk and an SSD , and a 1tb disck external for backup ssd+hdd...

    i think 640 ( really how much ? ) and a ssd 120gb like F120 corsair ( 110gb ) is the limit to use an 1tb external drive for backup all...
     
    seb87, Mar 16, 2011
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  2. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    What about getting an optical bay drive caddy? If you dont use your optical drive you can use it for a second hard drive.

    Then just have an external optical drive for when you need it.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 16, 2011
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  3. Judicator

    Judicator Judged and found wanting.

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    A 640 GB Samsung HM640JJ formats to 596 GB in NTFS. I think the Samsung HM640JJ is actually the only 7200 RPM 640 GB drive presently; Seagate and WD both jumped up to 750 GB 7200 RPM drives instead.
     
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  4. Phil

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    The 750GB WD Black is probably the best pick.
     
    Phil, Mar 16, 2011
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  5. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Isn't the 750 GB Scorpio Black a bit pricey right now? Why not just get the 500 GB Scorpio Black which can be had for ~60 USD. I personally like my Scorpio Blue 640 GB in my D620, runs cool and quiet.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Mar 16, 2011
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    ^ This. The larger cache is a plus, too.
     
    garetjax, Mar 16, 2011
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  7. seb87

    seb87 Notebook Evangelist

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    yeah , i've just bought the hdd caddy for the optical bay ;)
     
    seb87, Mar 17, 2011
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