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January 22nd, 2024 23:40
Inspiron 1525 hard drive capacity limits
I'm thinking about putting a larger hard drive into my Inspiron 1525, probably 4TB. Is this possible? What is the largest size hard drive I can put in the 1525? Here's the hardware specs:
- 4GB of RAM
- Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2GHz
- A13 (June 27, 2008) Dell BIOS
- 240GB SSD
- Windows 8.1 Pro/Windows XP Pro x64
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Kflash08
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January 23rd, 2024 17:26
Anything over 2 TB would require the disk layout to be GPT, and Windows XP does not support GPT. You will be limited to a maximum of 2 TB using the older MBR layout for that version of Windows. For a laptop that old, I wouldn't recommend exceeding 1 TB due to BIOS compatibility reasons. I doubt that no one at that that time predicted 2.5" hard drives would exceed 500 GB, as the biggest drive available was 320 GB.
ejn63
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January 23rd, 2024 00:22
You won't find a 4T hard drive drive that will fit the system -- 2T is the largest 2.5" notebook capacity that will fit.
While you could try a 4T SATA SSD, do you really want to put a $300 drive into a system worth about 1/10 that?