Chromebook Hard Drive

[GaiaWolf13]

I have a Lenovo Chromebook (a ThinkPad Yoga 11e). I want to put a hard drive in it where there is a space for one, but there appears that there is no SATA port or anything available to hook up a hard drive. Is there no way of adding a hard drive?
Thank you

 

[bjornl]

I peeked inside one recently and only saw one HD mount. You can replace the existing HD with a larger one.

 

[GaiaWolf13]

I peeked inside one recently and only saw one HD mount. You can replace the existing HD with a larger one.

The thing is, there is no hard drive already in it, just a piece of metal where one should be. This is a corporation laptop that I'm buying soon, it runs off of flash memory and cloud storage (I think). Where a hard drive should be is a piece of metal that isn't even a drive caddy. Upon removing it, I don't see a hd connector anywhere.

 

[bjornl]

From memory, the metal thing is the HD enclosure. The connector (ribbon cable) is on the outer side, So if the laptop is bottom up with the drive enclosure at the bottom, the drive was at the bottom left and the cable was at the left most edge of the enclosure.

I haven't seen the type with only flash, but I imagine it must connect in the same location if it is being used as a HD (SSD).

 

[GaiaWolf13]

From memory, the metal thing is the HD enclosure. The connector (ribbon cable) is on the outer side, So if the laptop is bottom up with the drive enclosure at the bottom, the drive was at the bottom left and the cable was at the left most edge of the enclosure.

I haven't seen the type with only flash, but I imagine it must connect in the same location if it is being used as a HD (SSD).

Hi there, I'm back again. After disassembling it entirely, I have concluded that there are no external connections for a hard drive. Oddly enough, it would appear that everything runs exclusively off the motherboard

 

[bjornl]

From memory, the metal thing is the HD enclosure. The connector (ribbon cable) is on the outer side, So if the laptop is bottom up with the drive enclosure at the bottom, the drive was at the bottom left and the cable was at the left most edge of the enclosure.

I haven't seen the type with only flash, but I imagine it must connect in the same location if it is being used as a HD (SSD).

Hi there, I'm back again. After disassembling it entirely, I have concluded that there are no external connections for a hard drive. Oddly enough, it would appear that everything runs exclusively off the motherboard

Strange, in which case it is entirely different from the one I've seen. Is it possible that the HD header is there but the cabling is missing? In which case a replacement cable might do the trick.