The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Sager 9262 Replacement Hard Drive

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by mos667, Dec 16, 2009.

  1. mos667

    mos667 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    19
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hey I am having a hard time finding the 9.5mm hard drives online. Can I purchase a typical laptop HDD? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
     
    mos667, Dec 16, 2009
    #1
  2. mos667

    mos667 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    19
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Also, I was wondering about installing your OS on a smaller SSD and then using a main HDD for everything else. Has anyone had success with this?
     
    mos667, Dec 16, 2009
    #2
  3. theriko

    theriko Ronin

    Reputations:
    1,303
    Messages:
    2,923
    Likes Received:
    4
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Normal laptop HDD's are 9.5mm, the unusual ones are 12.5mm, and they should always state as such.

    OS on SSD and larger storage drive is one of the most common setups with SSD's and should work absolutely fine.
     
    theriko, Dec 16, 2009
    #3
  4. mos667

    mos667 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    19
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Thanks for the quick answer.

    I guess I wasn't clear about what I believe is in my 9262... The HDD is actually more like a ram stick that plugs in to this shell. Is this just a custom, open HDD? Can I replace it with a normal HDD?
     
    mos667, Dec 16, 2009
    #4
  5. Rorschach

    Rorschach Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

    Reputations:
    1,131
    Messages:
    3,552
    Likes Received:
    17
    Trophy Points:
    106
    All of the hdds in the 9262 are laptop standard sata hdd's. As I recall the hdds in the cage are upside down compared to normal laptops, so the underside does look a lot like a ram stick.
     
    Rorschach, Dec 16, 2009
    #5
  6. theriko

    theriko Ronin

    Reputations:
    1,303
    Messages:
    2,923
    Likes Received:
    4
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Rorschach is correct, all 3 HDD's in the 9262 are standard 9.5mm 2.5" laptop HDD's, all 3 (2 in the caddy under dedicated panel and one under the battery) are mounted upside down, so may look strange. If you need any help with this, take a look at the service manual in my sig.
     
    theriko, Dec 17, 2009
    #6
  7. pasoleatis

    pasoleatis Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    59
    Messages:
    948
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    The HDD is like a RAM only that it has a spinning part and the RAM is missing :p
     
    pasoleatis, Dec 18, 2009
    #7
  8. gedekran

    gedekran Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    90
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Not unless the drive is thirty years old... Otherwise it should at least have a disk buffer. :p
     
    gedekran, Dec 18, 2009
    #8