Replace with 2 TB hard drive on HP 620

[PinguThePenguin]

A few years ago I replaced the original harddrive in may HP620 laptop with this harddrive:

HITACHI TRAVELSTAR 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 7200RPM SATA/600 Buffersize 32MB.

This Hitachi drive has served me well but is now almost full.

I want to get a bigger hard drive, I'm looking at "Samsung 850 EVO Series 2TB".

Maybe I'm crazy thinking about using such a fast drive in this old PC (got it 2011).

This old laptop might break down soon…or not...

I'm curious to see how long it will last.

The Samsung 2 TB drive is 2,5" and only 6.8 mm in heght, it will probably work in most new laptops, and I’m counting on using in it in my next laptop also.

What I need to know before purchasing this expensive Samsung harddrive is if it will work in my HP620 laptop?
Can my HP620 laptop handle a 2 TB harddrive?

HP product number on my HP620 laptop: WT249EA#UUW

HP serial number on my HP620 laptop: CNU1060PR9

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

If it will take a 1 TB it will take a 2 TB. Just keep in mind that the trend is away from the 2.5 inch drive format to the M.2 "gumstick" type disks and you may get stuck with hardware that will not work in a new laptop a couple years from now. 

Your laptop will benefit from the SSD speed and the SSD will be compatible. I just question investing at or about $600 into it. A 1 TB storage disk ought to be plenty and for a few dollars a month you could get some cloud storage. 

If this is "the Answer" please click "Accept as Solution" to help others find it. 

[PinguThePenguin]

I value you sensible input. I intend to use this laptop until it breaks.

If it works a few more years maybe that HDD form factor won't fit in future new laptops.

Now I found this 2TB HDD, its a more economic alternative:

Seagate FireCuda Gaming SSHD 2TB SATA

Price is currently 90 dollars and height is 7 mm and my laptop will take 9.5 mm so that will most likely work.

[Huffer]

That is a sensible alternative

[PinguThePenguin]

I have now replaced the hard drive and my HP620 laptop is now running with the 2TB Firecuda. I used Macrium Reflect 7 to clone the drive.

The 2TB Firecuda Hybrid is not faster than the old 1TB Hitachi 7200RPM though.

I am using Diskeeper 16 and I don't think that will help much on a Hybrid Disk, since (as far as I understand it) Diskeeper can only access the SSD part of an hybrid disk so Diskeeper will not help to make a hybrid disk any faster as it did on the HDD disk I had before.

But the main purpose with this new 2TB harddrive was to get more storage space, and now I have that so I am satistified anyway.

EDIT 14-07-2017:

After using this hybrid disk a week or two I noticed it is actually faster than the disk I had before. Not when starting Windows or other programs, but when I open a folder with a thousand files or more, the folder is displayed within seconds now (I haven't been using a stopwatch but it felt like this operation took more like minutes on the old disk).