cf-29 hdd upgrade

ok. so. im gonna rant a little. mainly for all the people that told me you cant put a hdd larger then 120gig into a mk2 cf-29. well guese what. i did. brand new wd scorpio blue 500gig. running xp pro sp3. copy right 2002. all drivers work. faster then before. i love it. my next one will be getting a 500gig ssd. and i also did the sata upgrade. so thank you to everyone that said it cant be done.... took longer to go get the hard drive then to do all the installs.... but i do honestly thank all the people that gave good advice. thank you. good day.

 

Not sure who told you that but they were wrong big time . If I remember right I had a WD 320GB in mine. The thing I did not like was after I had about 120-140Gb full I found that it was slowing down so I ended up putting a 160GB back in and put the rest on my external drive.

 

Yes of course you CAN but it's useful ? I think it's better to put in a small and fast SSD and use external mass storage devices to store big amount of data.

In my 29 i'v a 16GB SSD, of which about 10GB free, because i only use small work application. For gaming or graphic i prefer to use a desktop.

 

Well, do you use some adapter between SSD and ATA conector in the caddy?

 

Yes he does...check out this auction http://www.ebay.com/itm/Use-LARGE-S...6?pt=US_Drive_Bay_Caddies&hash=item4ab875deb8 This seller is the only seller I know of that sells this style and he is a member of this forum too.

 

thats were i got mine! very happy

 

Do You remember?
Did You separate this HDD at partitions before to install OS?

And, for me is not clear, that HDD- adapter, does work with SATA2 and SATA3?

 

nope. just put it in and had a friend install xp pro sp3. then did all the up dates. its a little faster. not hugely. but defently better. and i have about 300 songs on it already plus several games

 

oops sorry wrong message. lol

 

No separate partitions and yes it will work with sata 2 and 3 (i am told)

 

500Gb SSD's are still quite expensive, but getting cheaper. I've got a 600Gb Intel 320 (but with the recovery partitions and all I have 503 usuable GB's left) and I must say I really, really love it. But I only could afford this because it was a steal.
If I would have to do it again, I would not likely find such a nice SSD again and settle for a reliable 250Gb. A good Intel or Samsung.
I would leave out the recovery partition, that saves valuable space. Recovery partitions aren't that helpfull anyway AFAIK. I have a clone of a clean windows 7 install with all the drivers, office, Acrobat Pro and some other stuff I need. If my current drive would fail, I'm up and running in a few hours with the cloned drive.

But I'm not sure how much you would gain in speed as you have an IDE. And I don't know how fast IDE is, so perhaps you would need to look into that. OTOH SSD's are better resistant to shock/vibrations etc.

 

from what i have heard sata 2-3 will work also

 

I wouldnt user large harddrives in a laptop. Better use a small harddrive and an external USB harddrive... What would happen if you loose your laptop ? 500+ gig of data gone ?

 

That wouldn't be smart.

But I have around 18gb of work files,
5Gb of email and a little bit other stuff.
This 23Gb is backed up insanly often (usually incremental every hour and a full backup every day) and to at least 3 different back-ups and also in different (fysical) locations.
Around 100-150 Gb of movies, music and pictures? I don't care if I lose them, my wife has the family pictures and the rest is nothing special.
I also have a clone of the clean bare system with needed programes but without data on a 128Gb SSD and a complete clone of the current drive to a 500Gb 2,5" HDD.

then the backup systems are also manually controlled regulary to see if the files that need to be safe are also indeed in the backup, are readable and there. (Not just the empty folders, had that a couple of times )

It would need to go really, very incredible wrong before I'm left without a backup. It's not just fun, having a toughbook, it's also my livelihood. And loosing all my data would make life pretty uncomfortable.
Also, I don't think there are a lot of people who need 500-600Gb of space for their work.