RJM62
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Geek on the Hill
I'm passively in the market for a laptop with a 17+ inch screen and an extra hard drive bay. I don't need RAID, just a second hard drive to use as a clone of the primary drive.
I'm partial to HP, both because I've had good experience with their machines, and because I get employee discounts through their credit union.
The problem I'm having is that it's hard to narrow the field by the second hard drive bay feature, both because it's not a popular consumer feature, and because some of the machines that do have second hard drive bays don't list that in the specs, for whatever odd reason.
Conversely, some models have what looks like a second hard drive bay, but it's just an empty space with no connections to accept a hard drive; so looking for an image of the bottom of the machine doesn't necessarily help.
Anyone know of some site or resource that would have this information readily available? It would sure beat researching every single model to try to sort them out.
I've already chatted with Bernadette, Bridget, and Grace from Bangalore (I never knew that Irish names were so popular in India!), but they didn't have the information handy either.
Otherwise, I see a three-hour drive to MicroCenter in my future.
Thanks.
-Rich
I'm partial to HP, both because I've had good experience with their machines, and because I get employee discounts through their credit union.
The problem I'm having is that it's hard to narrow the field by the second hard drive bay feature, both because it's not a popular consumer feature, and because some of the machines that do have second hard drive bays don't list that in the specs, for whatever odd reason.
Conversely, some models have what looks like a second hard drive bay, but it's just an empty space with no connections to accept a hard drive; so looking for an image of the bottom of the machine doesn't necessarily help.
Anyone know of some site or resource that would have this information readily available? It would sure beat researching every single model to try to sort them out.
I've already chatted with Bernadette, Bridget, and Grace from Bangalore (I never knew that Irish names were so popular in India!), but they didn't have the information handy either.
Otherwise, I see a three-hour drive to MicroCenter in my future.
Thanks.
-Rich