hdd upgrade

[madhu_km]

im planning to upgrade the harddrive on my laptop on spec sheet it says it supports upto 750 GB for 72K rpm and and 1 TB

for 54K rpm hard drive was wondering if i can use seagate firecuda 1 TB sshd or sandisk 240 ssd plus

thankyou in advance

[Mighty_Miro_WD · Accepted solution]

Hi @madhu_km!

Yes, as long as the drive has the necessary interface you can connect and use it with your laptop. 

Furthermore, either of the options is good in its own way - the SSHD blends HDD capacity with SSD speeds by placing traditional rotating platters, and a small amount of high-speed flash memory on a single drive. So basically a hybrid drive only has a certain amount of fast storage (cache) for commonly accessed files, which means that the files within this cache are accessed at SSD speeds while the rest are accessed at standard HDD speeds, However, it has bigger capacity.

The SSD on the other hand will perform a lot faster because of the the faster random read and write speeds and will also make a noticeable improvement to general computer use, such as when loading programs (if they are installed on the SSD, of course). The con though is that it's smaller, but nonetheless you can use the current HDD as an external for your mass storage data.

Hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions you may have. 🙂