# Upgrade Laptop Hard Drive

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**Created:** [November 20, 2007, 5:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/upgrade-laptop-hard-drive/244610 "2007-11-20T05:45:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![phorte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@phorte](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/phorte)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 5:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/upgrade-laptop-hard-drive/244610/1 "2007-11-20T05:45:15Z")

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So, I’ve had this Asus F3Jv for about 10months now, and its got a 120gb hdd in it. Which frankly isn’t enough space. So I’m looking at upgrading. I thought about just buying a 250gb external. But had an external with a separate power supply etc, and i do like to use my laptop portably a fair bit, would be a pain.

So here the plan:  
-Upgrade the internal 120GB Hitachi SATA drive to a 250 GB drive. These are the two I’ve found at my local computer store: [**WD 250GB SATA 8mb** or [URL=“http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products\_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=132&bid=2&sid=24104”] **Samsung 250Gb SATA 8mb** ](http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=132&bid=2&sid=24506)

-Take the existing internal and buy an external hdd enclosure, this is one I’ve been looking at [**Vantec Nexstar 3 eSata**](http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=93&bid=2&sid=23174)

So first off. will this work?? which hdd of the two would u recommend. (apparently the wd has some quiet technology etc). And also what software would you recommend to ghost over the existing hard drive to the new drive?

Thanks all.

-Phorte