can this be used as a second hard drive with the original?
1354160
Yes it can as long as your computer supports SATA drives and has a spare 3.5 drive bay slot. If it does you may want to buy a larger size drive such as 2TB and use it as a secondary drive. If you don't have a spare bay then clone the drive and use it as a primary drive. If you are storing a lot of video or music you may want to buy a 2TB drive being the price of HDs is very resonable.
1453744
Yes you can, thats pretty much what we used it for and also to transfer all the old data from the old hard drive to a newer one.
862346
You can, but if you're still in the market for a computer I would just buy a different one that already has a drive.
1501846
Yes as said before, but you will need software to use the extra 250GB. The straight clone is just a copy of the original 250GB and the new drive thinks it's only a 250GB drive. The software will let you allocate the remaining for an alternate drive or a continuation of the same drive. I used EaseUS Partition Master and it worked fine.
1770072
Sure you can, you just have to buy an enclosure for it. But why not just buy an external HD directly? I think it's a bit of waste to use this drive as external storage.
2137736
Yes. If you have not replaced a drive on a mac before, you may want to take a look at this or other tutorials first to make sure you have the right tools on hand, and how to back up your old HD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfiGF_pjqvM
90590
You can actually!The HDD bay has room and screw holes for another SSD drive right on top of the first!
297637
Yes, You can use this as external hard drive. You would need a USB to SATA adapter cable.
1232665
Yes, you can. That's the main reason I bought it. Just make sure your HD is 2TB or less. It works great!
533746
Yes you can, its like having two hard drives connected independently only via the same cable.
1314121
I did add a second hard drive, but I am no pro. The metal plate blocking the slot is a knock out, so I got pliers and ripped it (gently,) out. I had to go buy a cable (I bought a longer version of the cable that attached the drive to my old computer) and simply installed it in the same way my old drive was installed. I may simply have gotten lucky. I remember an old conversation about making one drive a slave to the other, but I didn't do anything like that, and the drives are both working, so maybe I did get lucky. You are better off talking to a real tech guy, and someone who is 20 years younger than I am.
807853
If the HD didn't fail this will work with an IDE or SATA drive so you should be able to use it.
1819010
Sure, you can use an external enclosure and use it as a backup drive. Just remember that it's a 2.5 inch drive (like in laptops), not a regular 3.5 inch (like in a pc).Cheers
375678
Yes you can. As a matter of fact I just did about a week ago due to the fact that 4G does not last long at all so I got another hard drive for it and it was very easy to install. It will take about 1 minute to install another hard drive. Now my son never gets off of it and has enjoyed it. Best birthday gift he has ever gotten.
1863817
Probably. Note this HD is one third the capacity of the original. The 2.5 SATA form factor is standard, I believe. I would confirm with a web search comparing original HD specs with replacement HD specs. Should be easy to find out, though.
378106
Yes you can. I have couple of 1tb from Seagate, couple of 2 tb from both Seagate and western digital and a 5 tb from segate. All worked fine with existing data no issues except the 5tb as I had to change the file allocation type to be recognized.
1314120
I did add a second hard drive, but I am no pro. The metal plate blocking the slot is a knock out, so I got pliers and ripped it (gently,) out. I had to go buy a cable (I bought a longer version of the cable that attached the drive to my old computer) and simply installed it in the same way my old drive was installed. I may simply have gotten lucky. I remember an old conversation about making one drive a slave to the other, but I didn't do anything like that, and the drives are both working, so maybe I did get lucky. You are better off talking to a real tech guy, and someone who is 20 years younger than I am. I did add a second hard drive, but I am no pro. The metal plate blocking the slot is a knock out, so I got pliers and ripped it (gently,) out. I had to go buy a cable (I bought a longer version of the cable that attached the drive to my old computer) and simply installed it in the same way my old drive was installed. I may simply have gotten lucky. I remember an old conversation about making one drive a slave to the other, but I didn't do anything like that, and the drives are both working, so maybe I did get lucky. You are better off talking to a real tech guy, and someone who is 20 years... » Read More I did add a second hard drive, but I am no pro. The metal plate blocking the slot is a knock out, so I got pliers and ripped it (gently,) out. I had to go buy a cable (I bought a longer version of the cable that attached the drive to my old computer) and simply installed it in the same way my old drive was installed. I may simply have gotten lucky. I remember an old conversation about making one drive a slave to the other, but I didn't do anything like that, and the drives are both working, so maybe I did get lucky. You are better off talking to a real tech guy, and someone who is 20 years younger than I am. « Show Less