OT: Laptop HD

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 02:47:29PM -0500, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> I didn't think of the upper limit and checking what my bios can handle. 
> If the laptop can handle an external 1TB drive connect to USB port, I am 
> guessing it can handle 500 GB internally? Is there a case this might not 
> be true?

Nothing to do with each other.  The USB drive's limit depends what the
USB adapter chip is capable of doing.

If the chipset and BIOS can do LBA48, then you can use larger than
137GB drives.  I believe the chipset in your case should be fine based
on a quick search.

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Len Sorensen
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