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    Laptops with Dual Hard Drives

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by maxfactor, May 5, 2010.

  1. maxfactor

    maxfactor Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am trying to compile a list of them as i only know prolly 2... forgive me if a thread has been started on this or if this seems totally unnecessary at this time.

    I am thinking to just list the brand of course, and model... and prolly lament on them a little prolly some specs... maybe this can get a sticky status if it reaches some where...

    - OCZ 17B1-US - a do it yourself notebook which is in-expensive and uses most core2duo/quad mobiles of 800/1066, ddr3 ram and GT130M 512MB ddr3

    - HP DV7t - I stumbled on this when i got it to install Office on... opened up the back and realised it was capable of two hard drives.

    I am trying to remember this Toshiba that had decent specs... when i find it i will post it...
     
    maxfactor, May 5, 2010
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  2. Daytona 955i

    Daytona 955i Notebook Consultant

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    Dell Vostro 1700 does, as would the equivalent Inspiron. Worth checking their current 17" machines...
     
    Daytona 955i, May 5, 2010
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  3. maxfactor

    maxfactor Notebook Enthusiast

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    Found the Tosh i was trying to remember...

    Toshiba Satellite A355-S6943 - comes with a 250gb and a 500gb.... P7450, 4gb ram, 16 inch screen...
     
    maxfactor, May 5, 2010
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    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    Inspiron 1720, and the M17x. :D Oh and M1730 I believe.
     
    DR650SE, May 5, 2010
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    there's studio 17 too.. Also , the Hp Dv8t also has dual hard drives.. the new envy 17 is supposed to also have.. the Asus G51VX , Asus G51J , Asus G71, G72 and G73 have dual hard drives...
     
    sean473, May 7, 2010
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    computerstriker Notebook Evangelist

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    HP dv8t-quad notebook
     
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  7. 00940

    00940 Notebook Consultant

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    Most of the business notebooks can exchange the dvd drive for another HDD (latitude, thinkpad, elitebook).
     
    00940, May 7, 2010
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  8. ygohome

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    my Dell M6500 can hold 4 internal drives... it has two SSDs at the moment.
    It has provision for a minicard SSD and if i use an optibay caddy I can remove the internal dvd player and replace it with another 2.5" latop drive.

    I have a macbook with two 7k500 drives although they don't come from Apple that way.
     
    ygohome, May 7, 2010
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  9. ajreynol

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    Apple MacBook Pros.

    easily remove the DVD drives on them and replace them with a HDD/SSD drive.
     
    ajreynol, May 7, 2010
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  10. SomeFormOFhuman

    SomeFormOFhuman has the dumbest username.

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    Don't forget Sagers and Clevos:

    D90XX series can hold up to 3 internal harddrives.
    Sager NP8760

    Gateway P Series as well.

    There are many Asus'es with dual HDD support too especially their 15" counterparts... probably someone can name em'.

    I think another interesting topic I would like to bring up is, Notebooks with Dual Harddrives & RAID support. Some of them have Dual HDD bays but do not have hardware/BIOS RAID support such as the Vostro 1700 and Inspiron 1720.
     
    SomeFormOFhuman, May 7, 2010
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  11. AboutThreeFitty

    AboutThreeFitty ~350

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    Can you replace the DVD drive with a hard drive on any laptop or just certain ones?
     
    AboutThreeFitty, May 7, 2010
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  12. 00940

    00940 Notebook Consultant

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    00940, May 7, 2010
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  13. AboutThreeFitty

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    Alright. I never use my DVD drive and would take it out, but then I would have a huge hole on the side of my laptop.
     
    AboutThreeFitty, May 7, 2010
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  14. fzhfzh

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    If we are talking about DVD caddy, almost every notebook can have 2 hard drives.
     
    fzhfzh, May 7, 2010
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  15. maxfactor

    maxfactor Notebook Enthusiast

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    Exactly... What I wanna see is those that can natively use two hard drives...

    My friend told me his Asus N71 has two drives in raid 0....
     
    maxfactor, May 10, 2010
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    i doubt it does.. asus rarely supports RAID... The G series don't as far as i know...
     
    sean473, May 10, 2010
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    tufty1974 Notebook Guru

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    Certainly can't name all of them, but my G50vt can. I'm fairly sure the only significant difference between a G50vt and a G50V is the video card, so prolly a G50V can too.
     
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  18. TANWare

    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    Gateway P78xx and P79xx series have dual support............
     
    TANWare, May 10, 2010
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  19. maarten08

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    HP HDX 9XXX series also has support for dual hard drives
     
    maarten08, May 11, 2010
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  20. KimoT

    KimoT Are we not men?

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    My G51vx-A1 supports RAID, but I have heard that the Best Buy models do not.

    Asus has a number of 15-17" models that support dual drives...with the G51/60 models, the ones with 2 memory banks can fit two drives, but the ones with 3 banks block one of the drive bays. I believe all of the 17" G series hold two drives.
     
    KimoT, May 11, 2010
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  21. paui

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    Don't forget the Asus G73jh!
     
    paui, May 14, 2010
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  22. zimbros12

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    Also SONY VAIO TZ
     
    zimbros12, May 14, 2010
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  23. hkseo100

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    asus g51vx-rx05, Thinkpad line, Dell Studio 1745 in my knowledge. (there are more of course)
     
    hkseo100, May 14, 2010
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  24. Reveers

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    I have two HDD's in my XPS M1730.
     
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    Two HDD's in Fujitsu-Siemens Xi1526
     
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  26. laststop311

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    the new HP envy 17 is gonna be priced very well and be 12.5mm thick dual HD capable so you can configure with dual 1TB drives totalling 2TB space.
     
    laststop311, May 15, 2010
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