500 GB Hard Drive

[clintre]

Which of the 500 GB laptop hard drives work best for the Sager 5793? Which ones fit and which ones seem to work the best.

Thanks

[Zatara214]

Any laptop hard drive will work with it. I'm personally a fan of Western Digital, but Seagate makes some good stuff too. Either of those will get you good performance.

[clintre]

My main concern was I had seen that the new Hitachi 500GB laptop drive was too thick as it was 12.5mm height. Did not know if that was accurate or not.

Thanks for the feedback.

[powerpack]

Just checked yes the Hitachi is 12.5mm. The WD and Seagate are both 9.5mm.

The Hitachi 3 platters (I know it doesn't fit), WD 2 platters, gives great areal density. That will improve performance significantly on sustained read/writes. Seagate could not find # of platters but it must be 2 as 9.5mm I think that is why Hitachi is 12.5mm, 3 platters.

[Woody]

Does the 5793 have the option for adding a second internal hard drive in the optical bay like the earlier 57xx series did?

[powerpack]

Woody from what I could find no? I wonder if because it comes standard with bluray has anything to do with why not an option?

[xpcdude]

No, regretably, the 579x only has room for 1 drive.
There have been users that replaced the optical bay with another hdd, but it is not recommended...

EDIT: wow, slow post from me:)