I was thinking of upgrading my laptop HD with a Dual Hybrid 120SSD+1TB HDD, currently has a 1TB HHD with this clone since the hybrid drive is larger
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I recommend your SSD drive of choice be the internal drive (inside the laptop). The NexStar USB dock will support your 1TB drive as your secondary drive. You might even expand on this design in the future and pop in two 3TB drives in this dock. The read/write times are more than sufficient to accomplish a smooth flow of data, whether it be in the document creation arena to that of gaming. Remember to change the drive letter path to the external drive letter when installing software after the OS is loaded. Otherwise, your SSD drive will fill up rather quickly. Also, note that one does not run defrag sessions on a SSD, because the process will damage the drive. Just my tip of the day. I recommend your SSD drive of choice be the internal drive (inside the laptop). The NexStar USB dock will support your 1TB drive as your secondary drive. You might even expand on this design in the future and pop in two 3TB drives in this dock. The read/write times are more than sufficient to accomplish a smooth flow of data, whether it be in the document creation arena to that of gaming. Remember to change the drive letter path to the external drive letter when installing software after the OS is loaded. Otherwise, your SSD drive will fill up rather quickly. Also, note that one does not... » Read More I recommend your SSD drive of choice be the internal drive (inside the laptop). The NexStar USB dock will support your 1TB drive as your secondary drive. You might even expand on this design in the future and pop in two 3TB drives in this dock. The read/write times are more than sufficient to accomplish a smooth flow of data, whether it be in the document creation arena to that of gaming. Remember to change the drive letter path to the external drive letter when installing software after the OS is loaded. Otherwise, your SSD drive will fill up rather quickly. Also, note that one does not run defrag sessions on a SSD, because the process will damage the drive. Just my tip of the day. « Show Less
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The Vantec NexStar USB can clone one drive to the next and works really well as long as you have the same size drives or a smaller first drive and larger second drive.
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I recommend your SSD drive of choice be the internal drive (inside the laptop). The NexStar USB dock will support your 1TB drive as your secondary drive. You might even expand on this design in the future and pop in two 3TB drives in this dock. The read/write times are more than sufficient to accomplish a smooth flow of data, whether it be in the document creation arena to that of gaming. Remember to change the drive letter path to the external drive letter when installing software after the OS is loaded. Otherwise, your SSD drive will fill up rather quickly. Also, note that one does not run defrag sessions on a SSD, because the process will damage the drive. Just my tip of the day.
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I'd go to the Acer site and see how much it is to buy one with the 2 TB drive.
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I'm sorry, it was advertised as having the SSHD, but it only came shipped with a 1TB HDD :(
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No the HDD is a Seagate thin notebook Hybrid Drive that is a portion of the drive is Solid State which may improve performance on repetitive access be careful about theBrands of external Hard Drives you attach because some of the supplied software may cause the PC to respond very slowly
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I do not see the point of changing the one it has already for the one you mentioned, because both are hybrids and the hybrids have a flaw when we talk about proper speed. Change for a proper SSD (http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-MZ-7TD250BW-Solid-State-2-5-Inch/dp/B009NHAEXE/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie;=UTF8&qid;=1373543806&sr;=1-2&keywords;=samsung+ssd) than it will make a lot of difference on speed (boot up time and every day use). If you need more space, use an external drive for storage.
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Yes as said before, but you will need software to use the extra 250GB. The straight clone is just a copy of the original 250GB and the new drive thinks it's only a 250GB drive. The software will let you allocate the remaining for an alternate drive or a continuation of the same drive. I used EaseUS Partition Master and it worked fine.
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I use an internal 1 TB HDD. Never try a 3 TB HDD. It is not a "1080P HD", and I have a fatal problem with it.
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120 Gb SSD (Solid State Drive) as main drive with 750 Gb HDD (Hard Disk Drive) as secondary drive
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First, I must say, I am No expert on computer hard drives. That being said, I believe the Seagate Desktop 1 TB Solid State Hybrid Drive should be significantly faster than the Hitachi hts727575a9e364 drive. There are several important differences between these two drives which, Will effect the performance of these drives... 1) The Hitachi Drive you are referring to is a 2.5" Laptop drive; The Seagate Desktop 1 TB Solid State Hybrid is a 3.5" Desktop Drive. I recommend you compare your Hitachi drive with the Seagate ST1000LM014 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6Gbps 64MB Cache 2.5-Inch Laptop drive (if this for a Laptop). 2) Cache Memory - The general rule of thumb here is: 'the more cache you have, the better your drive performs.' Hitachi: 16MB vs Seagate Solid State Hybrid: 64 MB 3)Interface: Hitachi: SATA 3.0GB/s v.s.: Seagate Solid State Hybrid: SATA 6 GB/s 4) The Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive includes 8GB NAND Flash Memory and utilizes Seagate flash management technology to deliver SSD-like performance. I definitely recommend buying the Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive over the Hitachi hts727575a9e364.
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Reporting as promised! just did the swap, first time I've done this, no problems whatsoever. Fits the FW like a glove. Bought the acomdata tango external enclosure and used Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0 (free 15 day trial) to clone the hard drive. Now I have 243gb free space instead of 9gbs. The whole thing took 4 hours (because the 250gb HD was practically full). Very easy. So, go for it I guess. Oh, and the windows experience index jumped from 4.6 to 4.7 due to the higher HD transfer rate (which went from 5.1 to 5.9)also boosting the graphics performance from 4.6 to 4.7. Good luck.
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I bought mine a few months ago and it came with a 1TB but there are different versions (different GPU, processor etc.).
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These laptops are very upgrade friendly. What I would do is just but a external hard drive case for 30 bucks.
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Yes, as long as you external HDD is a laptop 2.5" hard drive and you wanted to replace the secondary hard drive. The primary (OS) drive is a pair of 128GB SSD running in RAID 0 and would be very difficult to replace as they are connected to the port and if removed their would be no connector for the new drive.If you hard drive is a 2.5" laptop drive of at least 1TB and 5400 RPM or greater replacing the secondary HDD should be a fine. If it smaller or slower then the supplied secondary or even just the same, just getting an enclosure and transferring the file over might be a better option. Yes, as long as you external HDD is a laptop 2.5" hard drive and you wanted to replace the secondary hard drive. The primary (OS) drive is a pair of 128GB SSD running in RAID 0 and would be very difficult to replace as they are connected to the port and if removed their would be no connector for the new drive.If you hard drive is a 2.5" laptop drive of at least 1TB and 5400 RPM or greater replacing the secondary HDD should be a fine. If it smaller or slower then the supplied secondary or even just the same, just getting an enclosure and transferring the file over might... » Read More Yes, as long as you external HDD is a laptop 2.5" hard drive and you wanted to replace the secondary hard drive. The primary (OS) drive is a pair of 128GB SSD running in RAID 0 and would be very difficult to replace as they are connected to the port and if removed their would be no connector for the new drive.If you hard drive is a 2.5" laptop drive of at least 1TB and 5400 RPM or greater replacing the secondary HDD should be a fine. If it smaller or slower then the supplied secondary or even just the same, just getting an enclosure and transferring the file over might be a better option. « Show Less
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This laptop has two separate 750gb hard drives. They have functioned 100% so far. I do actually like being able to store my media files on a separate HDD than what my OS is installed on.
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Thank you for the info, I'll take a look. By the way would you recommend a 1tb 5400rpm or a 750gb 7200rpm? Is the speed trade-off worth the space trade off? thank you
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if you dont want to invest much with SSD and want more space, you can buy seagate 2.5 in SSHD here: Seagate 1TB Laptop Gaming SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive) SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 2.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST1000LM014)
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This is a hybrid (dual) drive. The smaller portion (120 GB) is a SSD and the larger portion (1TB) is a normal HDD. If you use the SSD portion to load up all the programs, and to use the HDD as the file storage, your computer will run extremely fast. Good luck!