I'd like to put a hard drive (~450 gb.) from a Dell XPS M1730 in an aluminum enclosure. Can you point me in the right direction? Many thanks. Rand
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I used it to be able to transfer data. It worked for that purpose, but my hard drive was longer than the box, so ivcould not put the end black piece on to enclose it in. It works but i have to be careful when i carry it in a bag or something. I don't know how big the dell hard drives are. It may work just fine. Depends on what purpose you want it for
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This one should work for you. I looked up the Dell you mentioned, it originally came with a SATA drive, so it will fit right in and work. It's easy to install the HD in the case. It even comes with the tiny screwdriver you need.
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Yes, the Western Digital Bare Drive 320GB WD Blue SATA III 5400 RPM Drive should easily fit your Dell XPS. If you desire to clone the operating system and data from your current drive, I recommend choosing a Samsung or Seagate hard drive because the cloning software provided by Western Digital is less than desirable. Samsung and Seagate provide excellent cloning software with their drives If you will be reinstalling the operating system from a backup CDs or DVD, this drive should work nicely.
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None, this comes with all the necessary cables and screws. The xps seems like a pretty standard case so it will work with this.
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Sata it's the only way to connect a sata drive to this type of notebook. Does it work Yes, over price for plastic. You won't hit full speed of the drive but it works and faster It feels then ide drive...may not be flush with case after installing. So you know
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This is an enclosure will only hold a standard 3.5" Internal SATA hard drive. It does not include the hard drive.
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To make sure what the topic is here, my comments are just about the Vantec enclosure and not about whatever drive + enclosure Vantec may sell. My drive, for what it's worth, though, and it doesn't matter, was a 225 GB HP drive pulled out of motherboard-fried HP laptop. I wanted to keep it because there was nothing wrong with it to hook as an external USB drive to either my desktop or a tablet.
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I put a desktop sized optical drive in mine. I dont believe the package had a blank plate for the front. While a hard drive may fit screwed to one side I dont think that would work out very well. I found an Antec case for an external Sata hard drive. The packaging is long gone so I cant give you the part number and the case dose not have it. Good luck with your shopping.
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I have my terabyte hard drive in this. Best enclosure, period. Just make sure to use the screws that it comes with to keep the hard drive in place. I learned that the hard way. The hard drive moved and it wouldn't connect-wasn't coming into contact with the port. After realising this and screwing it down, it runs great. No issues whatsoever.
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The Macally enclosure does not comes with any storage. You will have to purchase separate HDD/SSD to install into the enclosure
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yes, put the hard drive in an external enclosure to convert it into an external hard drive
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The good news is that the connector in side the dock is a standard SATA port. The bad news (for me) is that a full size desktop HD wont fit. I had to use Sabrent USB-DSC5 Serial ATA or IDE 2.5-/3.5-Inch to USB 2.0 Cable Converter Adapter with Power Supply to connect my HD. Now I guess I look for a cheap laptop HD....Let me know if I can do anything else for ya.
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This requires an MSATA connection, this is not the same as a SATA connection that you see in most desktops. The entire Aleratec drive is smaller than 2.5 inches so there is no way to mount it that way without some sort of modification or cradle. MSATA drives are usually used in small, lightweight laptops where little to no power consumption by hard drives are ideal.
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no you need Sabrent Ultra Slim USB 2.0 to 2.5-Inch SATA External Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure [Black] (EC-UK25)
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Toshiba MK2552GSX2.5-inch SATA 250 GB Hard Disk Drive <---- If this is your hard drive. The link : 2.5-Inch USB 2.0 Aluminum External SATA Hard Drive Enclosure (Silver) Is the one you need.Hope that helps.Sincerely,A.Hansen
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If it's an option for you, the MB061LL can be ordered with a 120 gb hard drive for 75 dollars more, on Apple's website. I can fit XP on my laptop with a 60 gig hard drive, it's a very tight fit, but I also have quite a few programs installed on it... I also only gave it a 5 gig partition, which is the minimum size for a partition using boot camp. Hope this helps!
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I haven't popped the lid yet, but I understand that it has 16 GB in 4 DIMMs and does not have an mSATA-SSD. That stated I like it a lot better than my last Dell (a M4500 mobile Workstation) when it was new. The price was less than a comparable Dell and I'm not as impressed with Dells offerings these days, I only need 16 GB and plan to add the mSATA-SSD fairly soon. I've been repairing PCs since the mid-1980s and frequently find that it is cheaper to buy a slightly stripped down version, add components when the price is right, and keep the originals in case there are warranty issues.
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probably yes, as most major manufacturers use standard 2.5 inch hard drives, they then add a proprietary adapter and connector that you will have to remove from the existing drive i do not own a dell notebook so i cannot verify this as 100% correct