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    A300 Hard Drive Upgrade?

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by Amnesiac, Oct 30, 2009.

  1. Amnesiac

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    Does anyone here know what types of hard drives, and how much space the BIOS in a Toshiba A300 (sig) supports? I'm planning on upgrading to either an SSD or a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 7200RPM. Also, is it possible to upgrade, or does it use a proprietory connector?

    I have some pictures and will not hesitate to post them on request.

    Thanks in advance.
     
    Amnesiac, Oct 30, 2009
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  2. John Ratsey

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    Any recent notebook should be able to support any SATA HDD or SSD currently in production.

    The previous obstacle, from 5 or more years ago, was lack of support for 48 bit LBA which caused a limit at 137GB.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Nov 1, 2009
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    Thanks for that John.
     
    Amnesiac, Nov 10, 2009
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