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Gateway FX - P-7805u And SSD Upgrade

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shata   01-08-2009 at 12:47:00 PM

Hello i was wondering what do i have to look for connector wise for ssd upgrade on this laptop i know very little about this stuff. I was wondering if someone can point me in the right direction on newegg for this laptop.
Thanks
mike

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frozenlead   01-08-2009 at 06:51:47 PM
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An SSD interface wise is no different than a hard disk. They make SSD's that are SATA and IDE. Here's a search of 2.5" drives...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] rchInDesc=

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shata   01-12-2009 at 07:04:43 AM
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Oh thanks for that link, i looked around and all i saw was the P-7805 gateway was a SATA Hardrive so is there different types like for desktops? I even looked on gateways website but they didn't specify The sata type.
I was also looking at this, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822136314

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frozenlead   01-12-2009 at 08:09:36 AM
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Generally the only difference between desktop drives and notebooks drives are:

1. Power requirements
2. Size
3. RPM

Obiviously notebook drives run on less juice than desktop disks. Also obviously, they're smaller. What may not be so obvious is that they run at slower speeds to conserve power - most desktop drives run at 7200RPM...in the notebook world, such speed is high performance...the mainstream notebook has a 5400RPM disk.

The interface is the same for SATA - you can plug a notebook SATA disk into a desktop. For IDE notebook drives, the pinout is the same config, but the connector is smaller, so you require an adapter to change the size (but there's no logic involved).

That disk is one of the few 500GB notebook models, and is fairly good.

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shata   01-16-2009 at 06:35:04 PM
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Alright thanks for the reply, i was just slightly confused/scared to by the wrong harddrive so this one and all others are just sata thats great.
thanks For the help.

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