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Liliputing: How to add a hard drive to an Eee PC 901

  • Dean M. · 1 year ago
    After waiting for the Linux 901 to come out, I bought the XP version on ebay yesterday. I bought it on ebay because I got 20% cashback from microsoft live search, which brought the total price (shipped) to 479. that's where I think the eee should be. Now I'm going to use that extra money and put it back into my eee anyway, get a 80gb 1.8 hard drive and a 16gb sdhc. Plus the internal four, I'll have a 100gb eee. Hopefully I'll have this done in the next few weeks.
  • Drew Lelli · 1 year ago
    jkmobile,
    Thanks for your great advice - great job. With regard to adding a 1.8" HHD to the Asus Eee PC 901, you mentioned that the HHD will not fit over the SSD such that the SSD must be removed. Would a 5mm (vs 8mm) thick drive fit over the SSD?
    regards, drew lelli
  • Bazzal · 1 year ago
    Presentation - excellent
    Information - excellent
  • Hooty · 1 year ago
    Thanks for the guide, I'm ordering a hd now. :)
  • Filip · 12 months ago
    I just bought a hard drive for my Eee 901. When i was about to connect it i discovered that the ide port shown in the video is missing in my computer.... There is just an empty space saying ide 3... Is it possible to find some kind of adapter and connect it to the ide port of the SDD?? Help appreciated!
  • Anon · 11 months ago
    very interesting tutorial..
    im thinking can you do these as well on the eee pc 900 platform?
  • dagasaga · 6 months ago
    Cheaper bulding: models with HD/SSD uses same casing; no need to construct new cases.
  • Florian · 4 months ago
    I was really excited until I found that my eee-901 only has empty solder points where the ZIF connector should be. I have no idea why there is one in howto but I found that some people actually soldered a ZIF connector manually with some success but unfortunate waranty voiding.
    http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=56273