Inspiron 6400 hard drive size

I want to fit a larger hard drive into my Inspiron 6400 laptop but I
dont know what size (GB) I can use on this computer. I am looking at
Western Digital 250 gb sata 150 drive but would like to know if this
is OK before I purchase it.
Trevor Smith

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:38:32 -0700 (PDT), Trevor
wrote:

I want to fit a larger hard drive into my Inspiron 6400 laptop but I
dont know what size (GB) I can use on this computer. I am looking at
Western Digital 250 gb sata 150 drive but would like to know if this
is OK before I purchase it.
Trevor Smith

Yes it is okay. Just make sure it's a "notebook" hard drive (2.5")
not a pc drive (3.5") and SATA not IDE. I remember sometimes when I
was narrowing my picks for the next drive I almost picked the wrong
one (IDE).

Now going a bit beyond what you asked.....
Personally I'd avoid Western Digital if possible and pay more for the
Seagate. I just went thru the same as you and upgraded from a 80gig
5400 rpm drive to a 160gig Seagate 7200 rpm drive. So far no
problems and it runs about 5 degrees cooler than the old one and can
tolerate higher temp to like 140 F degrees max per specs. If I recall
most go to about 130F. Also the warrantee on WD is like 1 or 3 years
(forgot which) and the Seagate is 5 years.

Should work fine (assuming the 6400 is SATA, the 6000 was not).

I'm not aware of any limitations once you're using SATA

-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor ]
Posted At: Monday, April 21, 2008 5:39 AM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: Inspiron 6400 hard drive size
Subject: Inspiron 6400 hard drive size

I want to fit a larger hard drive into my Inspiron 6400 laptop but I
dont know what size (GB) I can use on this computer. I am looking at
Western Digital 250 gb sata 150 drive but would like to know if this
is OK before I purchase it.
Trevor Smith

I have one in my 6400 and it works just fine. (WD2500BEVS)

And yes, the 6400 is SATA.


"Trevor" wrote in message
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I want to fit a larger hard drive into my Inspiron 6400 laptop but I
dont know what size (GB) I can use on this computer. I am looking at
Western Digital 250 gb sata 150 drive but would like to know if this
is OK before I purchase it.
Trevor Smith

"Trevor" wrote in message
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I want to fit a larger hard drive into my Inspiron 6400 laptop but I
dont know what size (GB) I can use on this computer. I am looking at
Western Digital 250 gb sata 150 drive but would like to know if this
is OK before I purchase it.
Trevor Smith


I put a WD 320GB in my I6400 about a month ago, works great.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136197


-- Paul