The HP website says that storage can be expanded to 500GB in the keyboard, is this correct? Also is this unit fan-less?
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I haven't yet gotten a drive to work with it. However, it looks like it (1) requires a special adaptor that you'll need to buy directly from HP for about $57. And (2) the drive bay looks like it may only accept 7mm drives, so if you plan to put a 9.5mm drive in it, I don't think it will work.
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There is a standard 2.5-inch drive bay in which a hard drive or SSD could be installed. It does have a fan.
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I am not sure but I would call an IT tech and ask. I have a smaller HP net book and memory was added to it.
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I use it as memory expansion on my laptop - I currently have 100gb active data on it - it is convenient to move primary data between my two laptops. I have been told that it is possible to exceed the read/write capacity of the device (wear it out electronically); but it still works ine in my application.
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it is around 12GB. It will have a recovery partition that consumes few GB. If you are an advanced user and don't care about it, you may be able to take that out, though not recommended. Rakesh #IntelTablets (I work for Intel).
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I cannot answer your question, but I purchased one of these from the manufacturer for the purpose of storing and running Win 7 HP o/s and common programs. The item they told me to buy would not take the o/s and when I contacted them about it, they told me to buy a different model but would do nothing about having misinformed me about my purchase. I complained up the OCZ food chain without satisfaction. I don't give my business to other companies that behave like OCZ and don't stand behind their products, including HP, whose bizarre policies cost me a boatload of time five years ago. Yes, I have a memory. Buy from OCZ at your peril. I cannot answer your question, but I purchased one of these from the manufacturer for the purpose of storing and running Win 7 HP o/s and common programs. The item they told me to buy would not take the o/s and when I contacted them about it, they told me to buy a different model but would do nothing about having misinformed me about my purchase. I complained up the OCZ food chain without satisfaction. I don't give my business to other companies that behave like OCZ and don't stand behind their products, including HP, whose bizarre policies cost me a boatload of time five years ago. Yes, I... » Read More I cannot answer your question, but I purchased one of these from the manufacturer for the purpose of storing and running Win 7 HP o/s and common programs. The item they told me to buy would not take the o/s and when I contacted them about it, they told me to buy a different model but would do nothing about having misinformed me about my purchase. I complained up the OCZ food chain without satisfaction. I don't give my business to other companies that behave like OCZ and don't stand behind their products, including HP, whose bizarre policies cost me a boatload of time five years ago. Yes, I have a memory. Buy from OCZ at your peril. « Show Less
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Nope. The HP you are referring to only has 1 2.5 inch bay, so unless you modded that case there no place for another drive. a 1TB drive would double your capacity though. So I'd check that out.
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Mine has 16GB. Once you receive it, go to www.crucial.com and download to check your RAM. It will tell you what you have now, and what it can be expanded to. Then, contact HP or Amazon to deal with it.
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Guys, there is a thing called modding. My old H340 has an 80gb Perpendicular Drive in it.... Originally was 40gb... The drive makes my batter last a LOT longer, plus it has Rockbox (Rockbox.org) which increases it even further.
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depends on how you are going to use, when you disconnect from keyboard you do not have whats on the 500GB drive available. I quickly used the up the 64GB and added 64GB SD card so in tablet mode I have what I need, use 500GB drive to store data only
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I don't have the 500gb but there is room to stretch. I think it could take a good bit more keyboard without problem
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Give up now. This notebook has no place for a hard drive. It only has solid-state memory. That's it. If you want more use an SD card in the provided slot. You're only reasonable operating system options are as follows: Either you choose to use the Chrome OS provided on it. Or you replace the operating system with CHRUBUNTU, as I intend to. Both Chrome OS and open to one run well on small computers with low amounts of RAM and small processors. Windows seven is a memory hog and will completely die on the notebook if you ever manage to install it which I doubt you will.
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I don't know because I only got to use it once when loading it. The next day it didn't work. I had to call HP to find out how to get my information off the hard drive before returning it. If you have not already bought the computer, don't.
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You should probably look up the manual.... the 16 GB (if I recall correctly) is not supported, only a maximum of 8 GB.
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If it has a USB connection there should be no issue. I have a 500 GB connected and have no issues. I ordered my HP split in June and have been happy with it so far.
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Yes, I just installed 4 gigabyte on a single chip, replacing the 2 gigabyte that comes with this machine. So I do know for a fact that you can do it and for $25 it is well worth it. No need to remove the keyboard on the newest versions. I have the exact same model that you have. Not sure why your contact at Acer would say that it is not possible.
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You can increase the ram from 2 to 4gb. This is best done by a professional, as the slot is under the motherboard at the bottom of the case, and you need special tools to unclip the case. You probably could also increase the size of the HD, but it isn't really necessary...everything is stored on the cloud and it comes with 100gb of space in google's cloud service (for 2 years I think). I know you can download certain programs for offline use, but apart from word processing and a few simple games, you can't really use chrome OS much off if the Internet.
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the board has physical room for two of these. the pc originally had 512 that took up half the space . I installed a 1GB in one half. It worked. then I bought this amazon and installed it in the other half when I kept getting virtual memeory prompts again afte a few months. To noeffect, except that the pc shows it as having two GB installed. I de-installed wverything that eats RAM and I still can't go ten minutes past strtup without geting virtual memory message . I check the capacity and it stil shows plenty, under sixty percent in use when the messge pops up.