Questions about laptop and hard drives

I bought my current laptop over 3 years ago. The SATA hard drive needs a special bracket for attachment to the back. Without this bracket it's impossible to upgrade the hard drive. I am in the market for a notebook, and I don't want to buy laptops that require any special bracket to mount the hard drive. Is it something that only HP does, or is the special bracket requirement standard for all laptops these days?

Thank you for your inputs.

 

I think its a case of all laptops having the special bracket which is called a hard drive caddy... u can replace the drive in the caddy... As far as i know , laptop hard drives are always upgradeable...

 

OK, what you are saying is that all hard drives installed in laptops have this hard drive caddy, not just HP laptop? Then it's something I will have to live with. I remember my old laptops, before the arrival of SATA drives, didn't have this hard drive caddy. Installing a new hard drive was less work compared to now. Thanks for the reply.

 

As far as i know , all laptops do... but it isn't troublesome to change hard drive... u just have to remove ur old one from the caddy and put in the new drive... I don't have any experience doing this but this is what i know...

 

You don't throw the caddy away. Just remove the old drive from within the caddy and reuse it with the new HDD that you are going to use.

 

The OP may be talking about something other than the caddy.

Just like the old IDE drives would have proprietary adapters to connect the IDE drives to motherboards. I ran into an HP drive with an adapter for an SATA drive.

I pulled the drive out and wasn't looking all that closely and tried to insert a new SATA drive and it didn't match up. I blinked a few times, looked at the old drive and thought, sonuva.....I thought we did away with these freaking adapters....

Very annoying. If that is what the OP is talking about (an adapter than connects to the SATA drives two l-shaped connectors on one end and the motherboard on the other, that adapter is the exception to the rule.

Most laptops take a standard sata connector these days (thank goodness)

 

If I remember correctly, those proprietary adapters were used more for IDE drives. IDE drives have those very fragile pins that would bend if you breathed on them incorrectly.

 

That is exactly what I said--and exactly why I was so stunned to see a proprietary sata connector. Only seen it once.