Laptops with two hard drives

csurry

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8 Aug 2011 - 6:05 PM

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Can anyone assist in identifying laptops that have the capacity for two hard drives without the need to lose the optical drive.

The two I have found so far are:

HP DV7
Asus N73SV

Not looking for a debate on the virtues of removing the optical drive or why I might need two hard drives.

This is to run a specific piece of software and research has determined that the most efficient configuration is a laptop with an SSD, but since the capacity of these is relatively low for a full-time business machine the best compromise appears to be a dual-hard drive laptop.

Thanks
Cheryl

BigRick

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8 Aug 2011 - 7:29 PM

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i had an hp laptop with two internal drives.... but cant remember the model number... and my new one only has one.

skeletor

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8 Aug 2011 - 7:48 PM

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Worth checking Dell. My Dell Studio 1737 has two HDDs (250GB each) and optical drive. It's a couple of years old now but they may have similar configuration/spec models.

csurry

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8 Aug 2011 - 8:48 PM

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Thanks all

Fully portable would be better due to nature of work involved.

Trying to avoid dell due to their need for bloatware. Pain in the butt removing all their little auto reminders.

Lenovo could be worth a look.

csurry

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9 Aug 2011 - 6:08 PM

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Thanks chris will look in to that.

csurry

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22 Aug 2011 - 7:39 AM

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Thanks Bruce

I went with the HP in the end. Good choice just as they decide to get out of hardware -LOL

csurry

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22 Aug 2011 - 6:37 PM

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Not using it as the boot drive. Specifically the speed of a piece of analysis software is based on IO. So it is to hold the databases whilst working. Speed of boot time is irrelevant in this instance.

Simply with large datasets the speed is significantly improved using an ssd.

For instance a join between 21m and 8m records on standard pc took 1.5 hours on unsorted data and some 20 mins on sorted data. Of course the two sorts took approx 45 mins.

On the ssd unsorted less than 2 mins! Now this was not on same pc but basic specs were similar.

So if the laptop takes 1 or 2 mins to boot it does not greatly impact the work. At some point as prices drop I may replace larger drive with another ssd.