Maximum laptop hard drive capacity?

[Adreadon]

I’m getting an msi laptop that only comes with an ssd but can fit a hard drive in it, I was wondering if there’s a maximum capacity that hard drive could be, the only info I could find said 2tb but the articles were from 2013 and 2011.

[flibberdipper]

Pretty sure the limit is still 2TB, because I doubt you'd have (read: you don't have) a spot which is able to take a 15mm drive. Only way you'd be able to get more than 2TB is to buy an SSD which would be offensively expensive.

[porina]

Last time I looked at 2.5" HDs I could only find up to 2TB models on offer. I think 3TB models exist, but they tend to be found in external solutions only and I'm guessing they may be thicker so might not fit in a regular laptop. If you do get a drive, do check the thickness supported by the laptop and whatever drive you might be getting.

[WereCatf]

3 minutes ago, The boss 99 said:

I was wondering if there’s a maximum capacity that hard drive could be

No, there isn't. As long as the drive physically fits in there, just slap as much capacity as you like.

[schwellmo92]

You can get 4TB SSD's otherwise the largest would likely be 2TB, be careful when buying a 2.5" that the thickness is right for your laptop as they wont usually have enough space for a 15mm drive (if it does I think Seagate makes 5TB drives).

[Adreadon]

1 hour ago, WereCatf said:

No, there isn't. As long as the drive physically fits in there, just slap as much capacity as you like.

Thx, that’s what I had thought since the Seagate 4tb 2.5in drive is only $100 on amazon rn

[flibberdipper]

11 minutes ago, The boss 99 said:

Thx, that’s what I had thought since the Seagate 4tb 2.5in drive is only $100 on amazon rn

I can 99.7% guarantee it won't fit in your laptop.

[Adreadon]

2 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

I can 99.7% guarantee it won't fit in your laptop.

For what reason? Isn’t it made for laptops?

[porina]

Just had a look, it is 15mm thick. That is VERY thick. As I said earlier, check how thick a drive your system can take.

[Adreadon]

7 minutes ago, porina said:

Just had a look, it is 15mm thick. That is VERY thick. As I said earlier, check how thick a drive your system can take.

Yeah, I figured that out now, I’ve been looking for about 30-40 min now and haven’t been able to find what size it will fit, it’s an MSI gv62 8rd-275 if anyone could help with that, that would be really good