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Are Dell laptop hard drives proprietary?
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08-03-2006
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Are Dell laptop hard drives proprietary?
Hi, I have a dell inspiron 6000 laptop, with an 80 gig hard drive. I need a replacement but dell is out of the hard drive I need. Does anyone know if they are proprietary? Can I buy a hard drive from anywhere or do I have to stick with dell??
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08-03-2006
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generally no. I have never heard to dell hard drives being proprietary, however RAM and power supplies usually are.
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11-30-2008
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They are NOT proprietary. There are only a handful of hard drive makers (Western Digital, Seagate, Hitachi, Toshiba, Samsung, and Fujitsu). Anything else with a hard drive in it has one of the drive manufacturer's drives (listed above) in their products. Dell, HP, Compaq, etc. all buy drives from the list above. Buy a WD internal drive for sure!
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