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Toshiba Portege R500 Hard Drive
HDDs come in varying physical sizes and types. Putting in a new hard drive is pretty straight forward if you know what you are doing, obviously. Your Toshiba Portege R500 contains a hdd, or hard disk drive, which holds your documents and other data that the computer needs. Due to the delicate nature of a hard drive, they will fail you whenever they want for a wide variety of reasons. The type of hard drive to buy depends on your computer. The actual storage size of the hard drive is simply a matter of choice as almost all computers can handle any size drive.
What symptoms are present when the main hard drive is not working properly?
- The laptop freezes when you use certain files
- The Toshiba laptop may crash suddenly without warning while in use
- It may take forever to begin loading and may never boot all the way
- Your laptop halts or becomes unresponsive at random times
- With older hard drives you may hear a distinct clicking sound coming from within the computer
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