Does 1720 have an External SATA port

I have an Inspiron 1720 on order (shipping) at this time. When purchasing I asked the dell sales rep if it had an external sata port. He said it had the combo usb/sata slot similar to the ones Asus has on their G-Series. I then confirmed it with a tech guy there. But after reading a review of it, I am doubtful it actually has one. I had wanted to get an external SATA HDD, and therefore ordered a smaller internal HDD.

Does the Inspiron 1720 in fact have that port?
If not, am I better off with a 1394 or usb 2.0 drive?
You think Dell will do anything for me since they were in error, such as send me the kit to add a second internal drive (the caddy and adapter)?

Thank you

 

I keep reading the 1720 review, and I do not see anything about a SATA port.
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3904

If not, use USB. FW might be faster, but in my experience it does not always work well.

You can try, but I do not think Dell will own up to the mistake. Their sales people are trained to say anything needed to make a sale, and Dell is trained to cover up and not own up to what sales people say. But asking for the 2nd hard drive thing would be fair.

 

Vostro series doesn't have external SATA port. Maybe on the expansion or other external hardware do. (i don;t see anything about that right now) on the other hand, external usb hard drive is not even slow. Look at ubuntu, no lag or hesitation

 

I can confirm what someone777 said: no external SATA on Vostro 1700 (same as Inspiron 1720 aside from colorfulness). 5 x USB, 1 x 1394, a bunch of other unrelated ones, that's it.