Hard drive upgrade for an Inspiron 9300?

[Gomeler]

I have an Inspiron 9300 that currently has a 60GB HD in it and i need suggestion on upgrading inspiron 9300 hard drive. Does anyone know what the largest hard drive size supported by Inspiron 9300.

[Rawko]

You could find out the interface yourself, by checking which driver is installed in the device manager, under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, or download HD Tune, and check the Info Page. You can use a larger parallel ATA drive - keep backups - without BIOS support,You'll find only 5400 rpm drives though - 7200 rpm drives are made in Serial ATA format now- all the parallel ATA format 7200s are long gone from production.

[deoWo]

So while you may wish to install a bigger drive you may find that you are unable to use all of it.You can Upgrade Inspiron 9300 Hard Drive up to 120 gb,, but you're not going to find any 7200 rpm drives in parallel ATA (PATA) format - they're all SATA now. You first need to make sure that you can use the full size before purchasing a new HDD.

[RoninBlade]

Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD3200BEVE 320GB 5400 RPM 2.5" ATA-6 Internal Notebook Hard Drive and Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD1600BEVE 160GB 5400 RPM 2.5" ATA-6 is Great option for inspiron 9300.