terribleturner Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 I've got a fairly good laptop sat upstairs but it's only got a 40g hard drive. Now i've been thinking about making myself some sort of carputer and was wondering if i was to empty the laptop of it's bits for the carputer, will i be able to install a larger hard drive?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 I've got a fairly good laptop sat upstairs but it's only got a 40g hard drive. Now i've been thinking about making myself some sort of carputer and was wondering if i was to empty the laptop of it's bits for the carputer, will i be able to install a larger hard drive?? Yep. I think 100gb is about the largest you can buy in 2.5" factor though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terribleturner Posted December 24, 2005 Author Share Posted December 24, 2005 Nice, cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 Nice, cheers Also, in theory you could use some kind of adapter and use a regular 3.5" HDD as found in a normal desktop PC (faster, cheaper, much bigger). You'd have to use some kind of separate PSU though. The laptop interface is the same 40 pins as regular IDE but with the four power-pins added onto the end of the cable making 44-pins, (the cable & connector are smaller and thinner though). Also, the laptop drives only use 5volts instead of 5v and 12v for 3.5", but anyway, forgetting the power, the other 40 pins are exactly the same as a regular IDE drive. I haven't seen such an adapter but if you wanted you could botch something up with readily available 2.5" -> 3.5" adapters and cables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 There is a case system available where you buy the outer casing (as for an external drive) but you can put any internal drive inside the case and this provides a usb connection to the computer. You will need a seperate power supply. Advantage over justing buying a ready built external is the cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suprasport Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 i have just built my own car pc from scratch, and i have used a 3.5" hd, because they are cheaper as well as faster but you do not need that speed on a car pc. i use a laptop all the time and it runs everything perfectly. memory is what you need. 40 gig should also be ample for a car pc. it would be easier to buy an external hd for extra storage. but that isn't your main problem anyway, connecting to a monitor would be your worst problem, and connecting to your speakers. a lot depends on what you are wanting to do with it. will be posting some spec of mine and pics later on today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 I'm also looking for a new hard drive for my Mac Mini, it is currently fitted with a 4200rpm 2.5 laptop 60GB HD. Anyone know what's the fastest 2.5 HD available and what make to go for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supra-Dupra Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 A touch screen monitor cuts out the keyboard... i have a nokia 810 car kit that allows GPRS access on my laptop which i then hide under the seat and operate through a touch screen. Very clean and easy install and only in the car when needed, perminant one seems a waste ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terribleturner Posted December 24, 2005 Author Share Posted December 24, 2005 What do you guys thing of this?? I was initally thinking of a small hard drive to start with to hold all the programs and to run the basics, then have an external hard drive that i plug in when i get in the car the contains all my musis/movies etc... That way i can unplug it and take it indoors to fill up and change. Think i may go get my old desktop from the garage and have a play with a really basic one. Suprasport, what sort of money did it set you back?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suprasport Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 £700, but that was for everything including gps. http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=54749 an external hd would be best you wouldnt lose your data if it crashed Anyone know what's the fastest 2.5 HD available and what make to go for? seagate 5400rpm with 8mb cache Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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