Laptop HDDs

[albert]

With games becoming more HDD hungry I'm now needing to up my 750GB storage drive to something bigger in order to keep adding DLC and updates to games I have installed.

I have a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145534 already and a OCZ Vertex 4 which I only use for games I play every day so the majority of try em and occasional pickup games as well as most of my steam games (the ones I have installed anyways) are on the 750GB drive in that link.

Also is External USB3 a workable alternative to internal SATA for games?

I also noticed that a lot of the Hybrid drives are only 5400rpm with a flash drive cache rather than 7200rpm, any comments of these types of drive?

I was wondering is anyone techy out there could suggest a model as as replacement.

Cheers,

Bert

[kregoron]

if you got a CD/DVD drive in the laptop, you could just remove that and intall a drive instead.

Well, USB3 is fast, tho not really well for gaming, remember USB is still a shared medium and seek times on USB disks are rubbish.

[TeaLeaf]

if you got a CD/DVD drive in the laptop, you could just remove that and intall a drive instead.

That's precisely what I did on my Asus N55SF, so what used to be a DVD drive is now an SSD.

[sulky_uk]

That's precisely what I did on my Asus N55SF, so what used to be a DVD drive is now an SSD.

 is there a enclosure for that tea, been thinking of doing that to mine as well

[TeaLeaf]

I bought this one:
http://www.dx.com/p/designer-s-2-5-sata-to-sata-hdd-ssd-caddy-for-12-7mm-optical-drive-122075

You could buy it in the UK I am sure, but this one has the holes in the right place for the ASUS N55SF, whereas others may or may not.   This one was noted on a forum as being 'right' so I bought it.

[sulky_uk]

cool  and the gang thanks

[albert]

I eventually ordered a 1TB Samsung MZ-7TE1T0BW Serie 840 EVO Basic from Amazon.de and they claim they tried to deliver it last Friday, never left a calling card and yesterday I was informed it had been returned.

It might be a good thing, at £260 it was a bit excessive and given the ideas about replacing the optical drive I could get away with a smaller SSD at far less cost.

I'm still researching if the Samsung Series 7 Gamer can have it's optical drive replaced.

Thanks for that suggestion lads. Cheers, Bert