2.5" HDD possible?? See pics!

oldbrand7:

If you´re not comfortable with soldering the small points needed for the 2,5" SATA mod you shouldn´t attempt it. One false move and you may end up with a bricked AAO. The number of points needed to solder are 6, but they are in close proximity (about 1,5mm apart).

I´ve compared my 2,5inch to a friend of mine that used a 30GB 1,8inch iPod classic HD. Using ATTO benchmark i get 50% faster raw transferrate. over the whole test. Startup time with XP is 15 seconds on mine and 20 on his. On regular use mine is more snappy in response and when accesing large number of files across the drive is much faster (probably accesstime related). Batterytime doesn´t differ.

That said it´s an easier mod with the 1,8inch.

 

I also manage this trick.
Only that used just wires instead of any connector, I was solvering the wires directly to pin 2,3 and 5,6 and the power to pin 7 on the power bank (i also solved them right on to the HDD). Pin 6 and 5 where missing a hole so i took the ground from another point on the MB. As everyone else i also had to shorten the R364 The HDD fit perfect in to my case. I also tried installing debian linux to it yesterday, and that was a quite diffrent, it where installed a lot faster than with the stock SSD.
Havent tested the speed yet with hdaparm, because i finished this hack kind of late yeaterday so i had to go to bed.
I'll post the sresultresult later this evening.

I did test with hdaprm and i got this read reults:

Code:

acer:/home/jrs/tmp/linux-2.6.28# hdparm -tT /dev/sda2

/dev/sda2:
 Timing cached reads:   1058 MB in  2.00 seconds = 528.94 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  192 MB in  3.02 seconds =  63.55 MB/sec
acer:/home/jrs/tmp/linux-2.6.28#

i thinks its quite good results, compared to what i had with the SSD. I have no idea how to use hdaparm to check write speed.

 

pm me back, so this is possible??? 0_0 ld 20 gb 2.5' hdd laying around rom a head 360 its is a external hdd case and workign with my windows 7

 

I have mine with Samsung HM160HI right now, it was Pendrive 160GB external usb I used to boot Xubuntu, now it is inside the one. I have to change my signature.

 

I did the 2.5" mod and my Aspire One is really really fast with Win XP sp3 and Office 2003 XP sp3 and a lot of other stuff (emule etc.)

it's great!!

 

I tried it and it works. 2.5 inches hard disks are less expensive. I bought a 250 GB one and I can save a lot of data.
Happy! I like my ACER ASPIRE ONE.

 

I have the 120GB HDD version of the AAO, is it also possible for me to fit a bigger 2.5" if I want more space or is this only an option for the SSD version?

 

HuntMike

Yes it is possible to add a bigger hardrive, to your one, since you have the model which supports 2.5 HDD


I have a question of my own, I have a Samsung Spinpoint HM500LI http://www.samsung.com/global/busin...p=&type=62&subtype=67&model_cd=373&ppmi=1159#
that its rated a "0.85A"

I am wondering is the one can handle this little sucker, without problems.

 

I juts pulled it off!! and it works so well.

Thanks you guys so much for the support in this. I would have never been able to do it without your help.

Acer aspire one was 8gb ssd now 160 gb Western Digital Scorpio! Now i can actually use my netbook.

 

I have the 128gb ocz vertex ssd drive. Will it fit the aspire one. I've already have a 320gb sata in it but was wondering if anyone has put a real ssd in. Not usb or card. This ocz ssd drv i have with win7 on it just flys on the machine i have it in. Just wondering, thanks for your time,Foxtail.

 

As long as it is the same formfactor and standard 2,5" it should fit just nicely, mine certainly does although not an OCZ but from what I can make out thay are the same size.

 

hi, i see your pic. its looking cool and good but i think its not possible to develope 2.5 HDD , because it to large for it thanks...

 

I did the 2.5" n boy is my AAO much faster. But i just saw this on ebay and i wonder if it is possible to use it? http://cgi.ebay.com/PC-USB-SATA-SSD-HDD ... 255718288c

That may be an easy solution to those that do not want to solder on the motherboard of the AAO.

scorp76
http://ig33ku.blogspot.com

 

what about using this:

http://cgi.ebay.it/ZIF-CE-1-8-to-SATA-A ... 2917wt_803

 

I would think so.. then one could buy an usb wifi and solder it to the usb output of this device.
I also did the 2.5" sata in mine.. 250gb.. it is no lightning fast compared to before!

 

yes this is veary possible. my AAO came with an 8 gig ssd and now i have an 80 gig 2.5" satta drive in it, you have to solder the satta conector to the mobo so its not recommended for first time solderers