Hard drive for Dell Inspiron 5000e - place to buy

[John Baldwin]

On 11-Nov-2003 Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
> richard childers / kg6hac wrote:
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>> That having been said, you may also want to consider replacing your
>> current hard drive with something larger; many laptops issued with 10 GB
>> hard drives - the limit, at their time of manufacture - can easily
>> contain 20, 30 or 40 GB hard drives, now that drive manufacturers can
>> pack two, three or four times as much data into the predetermined form
>> factor.
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> Seeing the age of the laptop/computer "Dell Inspiron 5000e" make sure
> your BIOS has the capacity to "SEE" the full size of the larger drives. 
> I have a fairly new Toshiba-1715xcds and it would not see a 30-gig drive
> but saw a 20-gig drive fine.

I have an Inspiron 5000e which originally came with a 5 GB drive.  It
uses regular old ATA 2.5" drives for the primary drive though only at
UDMA33 due to having a PIIX4 chipset.  I've used an 18 GB drive and
currently have a 40 GB drive in it.

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