You want to upgrade drive HARD need advice...

Hello world

I have a compaq presario CQ 40-330 YOU laptop with 160 GB hard drive. now, I want to upgrade to say 320 or can be prefarebly 500 GB 7200 RPM HARD drive. my system won't be able to manage this update? need your opinion very much. I hv seen on the external HARD drive option but the drive external HARD come with a USB 2.0 interface and I think that it data transfer will be very slow. which is why need a HARD drive upgradation internal.

My main concern are about heat of the system. Is - this upgradation advicible?

Regarding

Gerard

Well Yes, you can add 500 GB HDD to this book... In order to reduce the thermal problem, I suggest go with 5400 RPM... You may not really need upgrade memory for the performance of 500 GB hard drive...

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