What type or brand of hdd is recommended if I want to add another HDD? A cheaper one would be great.
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As J.C. says, any brand will work. I would first find the storage capacity you need in a SATA 3.5" then look at reviews of the hard drives. I have used Seagate, Western Digital, and Hitachi. I don't stick to any one brand anymore, they all have good and bad models/batches.
1101711
SATA. Brand? Based on it uses a SATA interface, I would go with a brand your familiar with. Western Digital is my #1 choice for most of my things. Or Seagate.
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If you are trying to use this as an internal HDD, you might want to double check on the size there. That's a 3.5" HDD commonly used in desktops; unless you were planning on using this drive in an external HDD rig I would suggest you look into the 2.5" HDDs.*Suggestion: go with <Western Digital Bare Drives 2.5 Inch, Low Profile, 5400 RPM, SATA II, 8MB Cache 500GB Mobile Hard Drive, Blue WD5000LPVT> it's only $3 more ($43.99) than that desktop HDD for double the capacity.
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I was looking for the same reason. According to the info i have read on doing this mod, this HDD should do the trick.
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Its a laptop, where do you plan on putting another drive? If you're asking about an external drive, i.e. a USB HD, they yeah sure it will see it just fine.
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Order 1 from amazon, make sure it is SATA. 1TB or less, I am using a 250GB laptop hard drive. GL Mike
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Use the USB and a USB external hard drive. WD has one with 2TB I picked up during Black Friday sales.
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I bought a Seagate 1tB about two years ago. I've had to have it replaces twice already and I'm looking for a third replacement. I still have a 150Gb WD drive that I bought nearly a decade ago. In my experience, I would go with the WD... I'm about to buy this one.
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Any drive should work. Just check the depth. The biggest issue is going to routing the cables if the drive is too deep. Also if you use the drive you sacrifice one hdd. That is assuming full atx is install (that is how I have it)
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For years I have been purchasing both Seagate and Western Digital for system builds (they are the only two brands of mechanical hard drives I will use), although I have bought many more Seagate drives. The reason for that is because I seem to find better pricing on Seagate drives, which is the reason for my personal opinion: Go with whichever of the two has the best price per similar spec (transfer speed, cache size, etc.); they both manufacture high quality, dependable products that don't break the bank.
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You sure can. I have mine working with one WD red 3tb hard drive. Will upgrade to another one same capacity once I get this one full.
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There is a similar product for a SATA drive at a reasonable price. I used one and a good SATA drive from a dead (motherboard) PC to give my son some extra game system storage.
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Their website indicates that there are a pair of SATA III 7200 drives in the product. I don't know about swapping them out for other drives.
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I highly recommend this product... If you are using multiple drives, it's best to get the same brand and model for best results.
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No other enclosure is needed. The most important thing is to pay attention to how your current hard drive is mounted, some are just mounted with 4 screws, some fit into a sliding encasement that you'll already have inside your computer holding the existing drive you're replacing.
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if you want tons of storage and ultimate reliability, use this Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE1T0BW, I just got it for a little over $500 on Amazon. if you dont want to spend that much money than I used WD Blue 1 TB Mobile Hard Drive: 2.5 Inch, 5400 RPM, SATA II, 8 MB Cache - WD10JPVT. Both seem to work fine.
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Don't worry my friend, these HDD work. I used similar HDD but is a seagate 1tb....
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If you are trying to use this as an internal HDD, you might want to double check on the size there. That's a 3.5" HDD commonly used in desktops; unless you were planning on using this drive in an external HDD rig I would suggest you look into the 2.5" HDDs. *Suggestion: go with &lt;Western Digital Bare Drives 2.5 Inch, Low Profile, 5400 RPM, SATA II, 8MB Cache 500GB Mobile Hard Drive, Blue WD5000LPVT&gt; it's only $3 more ($43.99) than that desktop HDD for double the capacity.