Hard Drive Size for Laptop

[TheAddiction2]

I just watched Linus's video on the ASUS G751 and have started considering it as a laptop. I've read up on it and it would appear the only HDD capacity for it is 1TB, although I would personally prefer to have 2TB, since I'm a bit of a data hoarder. This brings me to my question: Can the G751 accept 3.5 inch drives? I'm having a difficult time finding standard 2.5 inch drives in 2TB+, so I was wondering, since the G751 is an larger laptop, can it accept 3.5 inch drives? Thanks for the help in advance. Also, if this thread should be in the storage section feel free to move me, just figured it's more applicable to mobile devices than storage. 

[Shalashaska]

No laptops that I'm aware of can take 3.5'' drives.

[XTankSlayerX]

What you could do is buy 2 1TB 2.5" Drivers and put them in RAID together, since you can do that

[connorpiper]

No. 1TB is the end of most 2.5" HDDs. I don't think a 2TB one exists. And anyways, the 1TB is 5400RPM. Already slow enough. 

[TheKDub]

2.5".

 

Newegg has this listed on the specs of it: 1 TB HDD + 256 GB SSD (2x128G RAID), and I'd expect that you could remove the disk drive and replace it with a hard drive bay.

[iruixos]

Why not have a moderately sized HDD/SSD in the laptop, then have a high capacity NAS to connect to?

[One]

all laptops i know of only accept 2.5s.

3.5 would be too thick

I'm replacing a laptop hard drive right now, and it is true.  Most laptop hard drives are 2.5in

[Sousuke]

2.5 drives are the only size that will fit in a laptop and at the moment 2TB is their limit at the moment.

[Aniallation]

I just watched Linus's video on the ASUS G751 and have started considering it as a laptop. I've read up on it and it would appear the only HDD capacity for it is 1TB, although I would personally prefer to have 2TB, since I'm a bit of a data hoarder. This brings me to my question: Can the G751 accept 3.5 inch drives? I'm having a difficult time finding standard 2.5 inch drives in 2TB+, so I was wondering, since the G751 is an larger laptop, can it accept 3.5 inch drives? Thanks for the help in advance. Also, if this thread should be in the storage section feel free to move me, just figured it's more applicable to mobile devices than storage. 

Laptops don't take 3.5" drives, because 3.5" HDDs require 12V power, and the batteries of laptops are usually only 10.8V or so. I think that 2TB is the biggest that 2.5" drives go though...

[AMD Lover]

What you could do is buy 2 1TB 2.5" Drivers and put them in RAID together, since you can do that

THIS^^^ Also heres a 1.5TB but like another person said. Most of these are only 5400rpm and this one only has 8MB of cache. I would get two 1TB WD Blacks and put them in RAID

 

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Drives-Intellipower-WD15NPVX/dp/B00COFNCMM

[Hecknologist]

You can either grab another 1TB drive or increase the size of the M.2 ssd. If you go for another drive though you'll lose the M.2 slot so I'd look at external storage and stick with the ssd+1TB.

I ended up building a NAS but you can always grab an external hdd or cloud storage etc.