Celeb Glow
updates | March 12, 2026

Looking for a laptop with a removable hard drive [closed]

At the moment, I possess a Dell Inspiron 6400. Just removing two screws, I've made the drive removable and can pull it off in one second.

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The new Inspiron and Studio laptops don't support this anymore (the drive is no more on the side but on the back of the laptop). So I’m looking for a new laptop having this kind of feature, or one that can be modded easily.

I also need a :

  • Screen >= 15" (if possible resolution > 1366 x 768 resolution)
  • Core i5-520M
  • Midrange GPU (like an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650)
  • Decent battery life
  • minimum fan noise
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2 Answers

Lenovo sells Thinkpads with removable hard drives (at least the x61 has a removable drive). Mine literally comes out after one screw and you can configure the system to posses what you want when you order. Problem is that they're a little expensive.

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Just a note: you can add a hot-removable hard disk to the media bay of Dell laptops (need to check if Studio has these) using a SATA media bay adaptor (cheap on eBay).