You're on the right track--it doesn't need to be custom-manufactured for Sony notebooks--just needs to be an internal mobile IDE-PATA hard drive. Still, I would recommend at least looking for something name brand with a decent warranty. Amazon and Newegg.com both have the Western Digital WD2500BEVE (250GB) for $79.99. That's a decent price (not mind-boggling), but more importantly it's a solid size/price reference point--e.g., if you find a 500GB name-brand hard drive for the same price, pull the trigger immediately.
Thnx! This makes this more clear. Ok if I put 2 RAM of memory in the Sony Vaio pcg- frv25, and Sony suggest two 512 GH, will it still be as effective? Will the unused memory just sit there and not affect performance at all?
1 GB of RAM (2 x 512 MB) is the maximum RAM the Sony VAIO PCG-FRV25 was designed to utilize. I had to flash the BIOS on my Vostro 1000 (and run 64-bit Windows) to get it to recognize 4 GB of RAM. You might have worse problems than an underutilized expense--it's possible the system won't recognize a 1 GB SO-DIMM in a 512 MB slot, despite the correct form factor (200 pin DDR333 SO-DIMM).
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If my computer recognizes 1gb of the 2gb memory in the slot, could this harm the computer if it recognizes the memory and is using it?
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