Toshiba Satellite X205-S9349

I currently own the Satellite X205-S9349 and plan to upgrade both hard drives right now. I read somewhere on this forum that someone is upgrading to a 320gb 7200rpm hard drive and others said that will work.
So my question is what is the max size this notebook will handle?
Ive checked toshiba website with no luck and other places too. I do not have the money to buy a new notebook, and both hard drives in this system has been replaced at least 5 times each under warranty.

I wanted to get this one:
Hitachi - Travelstar 500GB Internal Serial ATA Hard Drive for Laptops - Black

If not I will have to get this one:
Hitachi - Travelstar 320GB Internal Serial ATA Hard Drive for Laptops - Black

They also have a 1TB 7200RPM hard drive which is the same price as the 500GB so if it does work I would like to know. That way at least I would get more space for my money.

Thanks in advance.

 

The 500 GB should work just fine; it's not advanced format or anything, so you should have no issues at all, and the X205 takes SATA drives, so you're covered. The notebooks that had problems with drives that were too large were all pretty much on the IDE/PATA interface.

Are you sure the 1 TB 7200 RPM drive you were looking at is 2.5"? I'm almost certain that it would be a 3.5" desktop drive... which wouldn't fit in your notebook at all. There are presently no 1 TB 7200 RPM drives in the 2.5" form factor that I know of... and the 1 TB 2.5" drives that do exist are 12.5mm in height, and so they won't fit in the regular drive bay of every notebook either.

So, basically, you should be fine with any 2.5" 9.5mm high SATA hard drive.

 

Thanks for the reply, and thanks for pointing that 1TB out, i rechecked on it and noticed it said for Desktops at the very end. Very happy you pointed that one out.

I will most likely go for that 500GB, I use my laptop for college, and I have a lot of software for designing and programming. So I will need space for that. I mostly upgrade my desktop so I know more bout desktops than notebooks, and I know motherboards usually have there limitations my last desktop motherboard only allowed me to have 320GB max on hd, so I figured the notebooks motherboards were gonna be the same way.

I appreciate your quick response and help. I really have not liked the X205-S9349 very much. Ive had to replace the motherboard 2 times, hard drives 5 times each, lcd 1 time, keyboard 2 times. By law I was suppose to get a new one after the 4th or 5th service time, but because I was on extended warranty they would not do this. As long as I can get a new HD for now and works ill be happy.

Thanks again Judicator!

 

Just want to second the Hitachi 7K500 Travelstar. Great drive.

Your notebook seems to have issues with cooling - I recommend a Zalman notebook cooler for you (and your notebook) to keep your new parts working for longer than the last ones.

Also, if you're still using Vista on this system, how much RAM do you have? If you have at least 4GB RAM and are still experiencing these hardware failures, I suggest moving to Win7x64 - much less taxing on your equipment than Vista ever was.

Good luck.