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    Envy 17 - # of Internal Drives?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by CharlieDigital, Sep 15, 2011.

  1. CharlieDigital

    CharlieDigital Notebook Geek

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    Hi folks,

    Looking to buy an E17 for business/development purposes.

    I'm wondering, though: it seems that it has the capacity for 2 internal drives. But will they both fit regular, notebook sized SSD/HDD? Or is it the case that one will fit a mini-sized drive?

    I would like to get it with just one drive and replace it with an SSD and plug the drive into the second slot (for virtual machines).

    Any info would be appreciated!

    -- cdigs
     
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  2. vsherry

    vsherry Notebook Evangelist

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    Both slots fit standard hard drives.
     
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  3. CharlieDigital

    CharlieDigital Notebook Geek

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    Excellent :)

    Another question: would it be possible to connect two monitors to it via DVI/DisplayPort?

    The docking solutions that are available seem to only support VGA (?!?)
     
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    CharlieDigital, Sep 15, 2011
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