I need to buy a hard drive for my dell studio 1555 laptop. Can you guys suggest where can I buy a compatible hard drive with reasonable price.
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Where are you located? What size drive you want? How money you have? How geeky are you?
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I am in the US. I am not looking to spend over $100.
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A brand new 320gb or even a 500gb could well be a possibility within the range you’ve mentioned. However, try and purchase a drive thats higher on the RPM scale, 7200rpm hard drive instead of the 5400rpm drives scattered around.
If I were you and if the drive was going to be used primarily as a system drive, I’d get the 320gb 7.2K drive over the 500gb 5.4k drive any given day. The increase in disc platter speeds helps substantially in getting your desired applications/Operating systems loaded up in minimal amounts of time.
If its going to be used as storage, I’d opt for the 500gb if I wasn’t going to be copying stuff over frequently and instead relied on getting my stuff from ftp servers, torrents etc.
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Another option is to get a hybrid drive. This has a little bit of flash storage for the boot process and then the spindles take over.
On my Macbook Pro I have the Seagate Momentus XT500. I picked it up for $99 at MicroCenter
Heres the procedure to change the drive on your laptop:
Documentation
PS: Make sure your laptop doesn’t take the thinner drives (9mm and below). Most 1TB drives are thicker so won’t fit.