Originally Posted by
skimple
I don't think you read the comment clearly. He bought an external 2.5 drive, opened it up and installed that drive in his laptop. Sometime you can get a better deal if your handy with things like that.
Which Protege model do you have? It might help to know the specs that your motherboard can support.
You're right; I did not read the comment fully. That being said, I don't trust myself enough to open up the external casing to get the drive out and install on my computer.
Originally Posted by
Loren Pechtel
That's a desktop drive, not a laptop. It's not going to fit, nor will there be enough power.
I've also had a lot of bad luck with Seagate recently.
Which one?