Hard Drive Upgrade for HP Mini 110-210 DDR3 netbook(Hp Mini 110-4112TU)

[Pradz Kindmeadows]

I'm Upgrading My Hp Mini 110-4112TU 2.5" HardDrive to 2.5" 1000Gb. Mine has the original 390Gb HDD. My problems is whats the best Hard Drive for my Mini, HDD or SDD? I'm a SDD performance not that is weak or something but I think its to much for my old netbook which all ready gone lots of replacement like keyboard, fan, LCD screen, plus covers. Is a 1TB SDD safe for a N2600 2Gb HP Mini?

 

[voltoid27]

You have an N2600? I'm so sorry.... (I used to have a Gateway netbook with the same processor, worst tech item I've ever bought. Not Gateway's fault it was so bad, Intel just massively failed on their drivers.)

Anyway, you can use either an SSD or an HDD, it all comes down to whether you value speed or storage capacity. There isn't a hard drive out there that I'm aware of that will saturate the SATA 3Gb/s speed supported by your netbook's chipset, so you can pretty much choose whichever hard drive you want as long as it fits the 2.5" profile. As for SSD's, you can use just about any SSD on the market, but you won't be able to utilize the full potential of most SSD's, since they can achieve speeds over 500 MB/s which your netbook simply can't do. However, you can run an SSD on your slower 3Gb/s chipset and still get most of the speed improvement over an HDD.

TL;DR: Buy whatever you want, but just know that an SSD will most likely be bottlenecked by the SATA speed of your chipset.

EDIT: Looking at your original question, I rambled a bit in my answer. Yes, you can use a 1TB SSD in your netbook, it won't damage anything, it just won't operate at its max performance.

 

[Pradz Kindmeadows]

Thank you. I think that solve my issue. I'm quite good about 3bg since I also installed a Intel Rapid Storage which helps my hard drive.Now I'm set to buy SSD, I'll looking also cheat one.I'm using my old HDD as back storage by converting it to external unit.

 

[voltoid27]

Sounds like a plan!