Satellite A135-S4527 Maximum HDD Size?

So...

My old gateway finally died it's final death a couple months ago, and I recently picked up a very nice Satellite A135 series laptop for about $315 on eBay.

It came with a 120gb SATA drive, and while that's a nice jump up from the 80 on my gateway, I would certainly like more, especially considering I'm dual-booting Vista Ultimate and XP, and happen to have an 80 gig or so mp3 collection that's quite obnoxious to have to keep on an external.

I believe Toshiba indicated that 120gb was the maximum size, but I've seen other a135 series laptops (different model #'s) running over 200gb hdd's.....now I know some of them are the dual-hdd ones, but some of them also were not...

Also on eBay I've seen people selling 160gb which supposedly work for my model of laptop....and 160 would be nice, but I'd really prefer to make a more significant jump to 200+

Anybody know of any reason why a 200+ gig hard drive wouldn't work?

 

The A135 will be able to support the largest serial ata drives up to 320-500gb in capacity.
However your system uses 9.5mmthick sata drives. The only drive you cannot use is a 12mm thick hitachi 5k500 drive. All others will fit into your notebook.
Just make sure that the drive you buy has a sata 2.5" interface.

I recommend getting the samsung hm160JC which uses one 160gb platter, or any 320gb 5400rpm drive, as both will be able to maintain average speeds of 52mb/sec.

Harddrives over 137gb would not work in much older laptops, but that is not teh case anymore with the sata interface. You can use any harddrive you like.

K-TRON

 

Thanks for the heads up.....I checked this on my phone the other day and didn't have a chance to respond.

Anyway, that's what I thought the case was, and I knew it was a 9.5mm.....just didn't want to go buy a drive and then have it staring back at me mockingly for some random reason.