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    New 500GB Sata hard drives with HP dv9540

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by joutinho, Mar 13, 2009.

  1. joutinho

    joutinho Newbie

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    I have a HP Pavillion dv9540us which came with 2x 120Gb Fujitsu Sata drives 5400rpm

    I already replaced the second drive by one from Seagate 320Gb Sata 7200rpm

    Does anyone knows if it will work with 2x500Gb ?
    HP Service guide manual and chat support told me the max I can have is 2x 250Gb 5400rmp which I kind of not believe is necessarely true.

    Can someone help ?

    Thanks
     
    joutinho, Mar 13, 2009
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  2. Silvr6

    Silvr6 Notebook Evangelist

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    There should be no problem with running 2X500Gb hdd's.

    You can either set them up as 2 seperate drives, in a Raid 0 (stripped for speed) or Raid 1 (mirrored for redundancy)
     
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  3. joutinho

    joutinho Newbie

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    Thanks Silvr6 for your prompt reply

    My concern is it either the Bios F.33 my laptop is running or the chipset would impose any kind of limitation to the size of the drives.


    Personally I think manufacturers never tell you the true so they force you to buy smaller drives or to become obsolet hardware in order o reduce their stocks or if not to force to buy new notebooks.

    But just in case I wasn't willing to spend the money before be sure....

    What do you say ?
     
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    Silvr6 Notebook Evangelist

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    I know in the past, as being the very distant past there was the famous 137gb limit due to bios limitations. People got around this by making multiple partitions to get around the problem. However if the laptop support 2x250gb drives it will at least recognize a 500gb partition.

    Worst case scenario depending on how you plan to run the hard drives (Raid 0 or 1 or seperate) you might have to limit the partition sizes to 500gb, although thats very unlikely.

    What chipset are you running right now
     
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  5. joutinho

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    Can't tell for sure. Notebook is at home. Will reply from there within the next 20 minutes.
    Thanks.
     
    joutinho, Mar 13, 2009
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  6. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Your system will support two 500gb harddrives. Your system will recognize any SATA 2.5" 9.5mm thick harddrive
    You are all set to upgrade. All you need to do is install the drives and the operating system.

    K-TRON
     
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    I am running Intel(R) GM965 Express Chipset
     
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    Cool !!!
    Thanks K-TRON for your reply !!!

    I really appreciate the help. I barely resgistered to this forum 3 hours ago and I already got answers that Customer Suport don't know or won't provide with accuracy.
     
    joutinho, Mar 13, 2009
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