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[ISP]

I havent even seen a floppy disk or drive in what... 5 to 8 years, I'm not sure what the hell noises they make.

[G-Flex]

Also, even if your laptop has room to slap another hard drive in there, I wouldn't assume this to be a good idea, because you don't know why that space is empty to begin with. You can't necessarily be sure if the laptop can supply enough power to it in addition to the other things, or if heat would be a problem, for instance. It would probably be fine, but I wouldn't assume anything.

[Tellemurius]

Also, even if your laptop has room to slap another hard drive in there, I wouldn't assume this to be a good idea, because you don't know why that space is empty to begin with. You can't necessarily be sure if the laptop can supply enough power to it in addition to the other things, or if heat would be a problem, for instance. It would probably be fine, but I wouldn't assume anything.

If anything he would lose 20 minutes of battery life. Well at least now you can do a SSD + HDD combo for the win.

[G-Flex]

I wasn't talking about battery life, I was talking about the actual voltage and current supplied to the machine's components. I'm not sure of the details of laptop power supplies, but I'd rather not make any assumptions either.

[rutsber]

I meant Roboboy33, not you.

Also, floppy drives never really beeped.

I think he meant that if you used the empty space as a storage container for a flash drive, anytime you moved the laptop it would bounce around in there.

[Tellemurius]

I wasn't talking about battery life, I was talking about the actual voltage and current supplied to the machine's components. I'm not sure of the details of laptop power supplies, but I'd rather not make any assumptions either.

Oh, well if they are using the SATA standard then voltage should be the same and current wouldn't affect much except as i said run the battery down a bit more, current is the biggest thing to change around in a computer without causing too much adverse effects.

[G-Flex]

I meant Roboboy33, not you.

Also, floppy drives never really beeped.

I think he meant that if you used the empty space as a storage container for a flash drive, anytime you moved the laptop it would bounce around in there.

Oh. I assumed he meant something like an SSD, not a USB drive.

I wasn't talking about battery life, I was talking about the actual voltage and current supplied to the machine's components. I'm not sure of the details of laptop power supplies, but I'd rather not make any assumptions either.

Oh, well if they are using the SATA standard then voltage should be the same and current wouldn't affect much except as i said run the battery down a bit more, current is the biggest thing to change around in a computer without causing too much adverse effects.

Again, I don't know much about laptop power supplies, but I know that desktop ones are generally rated for how much power they can, er, supply, at a given time. It's unlikely that a single additional hard drive would cause an issue, but frankly, there can be any number of reasons why something inside the case has gone unused; I've had electronics where external ports aren't even supported by the hardware, for that matter, so there's no guarantee it would even work.

[Tellemurius]

You have a good point, if the manufacturers are dicks they can disable the extra port but that usually means more effort on their end. Dual drives is their new gimmick now so they probably expect somebody to ask for a extra drive. Was there a extra bay door underneath the laptop for this specific spot?

[Fenrir]

greatorder, are you thinking of modems?

[Aklyon]

greatorder, are you thinking of modems?

This post both confuses me (since people are still calling things modems) and has nostalgia.

[Duuvian]

Beep Beep Kchhhhhhh beep bop beep kchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh <robot groan> bink-abink

Ding! You have mail!

EDIT: Yes there was a ding, it's coming back now.

Also yeah there was some weird removable media drive that was quickly obsolete between floppy drive and CDs. The Career Center I went to in High School must have used them because my senior year the computer wizard guy was tossing about 50 of them out and I nabbed one from the garbage pretty much. I don't know what they are called though. Zip drive or something maybe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive

Yup it was.

I might still have it lost somewhere but I probably have tossed it by now. I never used it.

[Bauglir]

I want to know why this guy thinks flash drives make a lot of noise.

It's a laptop, so stashing a flash drive in there would probably result in a lot of rattling as it was carried around, since there is no port for it - it'd just be a hidden spot for something he didn't want people to find, and an impractical one at that.

At least that's how I'm interpreting it.

[lordcooper]

This seems to be an amazingly good idea for smuggling goodies into festivals.  Can anyone recommend me a laptop?  Performance is basically unimportant, empty space is the priority.

[Aklyon]

This seems to be an amazingly good idea for smuggling goodies into festivals.  Can anyone recommend me a laptop?  Performance is basically unimportant, empty space is the priority.

Get a netbook and empty the insides out then. Cheaper and less useful than a laptop, but you lose a bit of space.

[miauw62]

I havent even seen a floppy disk or drive in what... 5 to 8 years, I'm not sure what the hell noises they make.

These are the noises they make.