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milehighxr
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December 30th, 2010 17:00
Dell E1705 upgrade Qs
I have a dell E1705 Service tag Service tag removed per privacy policy >,
and was wondering if it would be possible to stick an SSD in it. I don't need mass quantities of space, but like the idea of a little more room, and the lack of moving parts that SSDs have. It is already maxed out on RAM, and I don't believe I can change the processor, or the graphics. Mostly just want a little more room, without going crazy. I think an 80gb SSD fits my bill great, but the Dell upgrade adviser does not show any Dell authorized SSD upgrades. And the HDDs smaller than 250gb, are ridiculously priced thru dell...
milehighxr
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Posted January 4th, 2011 15:00
Still didn't answer if it will support an SSD or not. I don't need 10billion gbs of HDD space, I want crash surviveability(if I drop it), and about 160gb max volume. So again, can I put an SSD in ther to replace the factory 50gb?
milehighxr
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Posted January 6th, 2011 18:00
Yeah I get that, and don't really care about having 2 drives. I just want to know what my options are for SSDs in this laptop.
kirkd
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Posted December 30th, 2010 18:00
You can't add another drive to the 1705.
You can get a 250GB replacement laptop drive for about $40 from many sources. A 599GB is maybe $20 more. This is much cheaper than a low capacity SSD.
If you just want to add a little extra storage, get a 16GB or 32GB USB flash drive. However, these will not last long if you do a lot or reading/writing to them.