Removing a hard drive to add battery life to a laptop?
So I'm looking at buying a laptop for college right now, and what I'm currently looking at has a 512GB SSD and a 1TB hard drive and has around 4.5 hours of battery life. I was just talking to someone about it, and he said that I could remove the hard drive and instead get an external hard drive and that would add some battery life. So I looked around for a bit and there was an option with a 500gb SSD and a 750gb external hard drive (which ironically wound up being ~$20 more expensive). I'm trying to decide whether it's worth it to not have the extra hard drive space always with me, so, when the external hard drive isn't connected, does anybody have any rough idea of how much additional battery life this would give me?
Also, I realize that basil probably isn't the best place to ask this, but I tried to google it but didn't really find anything pertinent and I don't have an account on any other websites where people might know the answer, so whatever.
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i thought like you until i actually got to the campus. wall sockets everywhere. i just bring my charger with me.
...Honestly, the benefit from having an external hard drive will be very minimal in regards to power use.
Hard drives are fairly low drain in the first place, laptop hard drives being made to use even less power. Plus HDDs already have reduced power drain when idling, so when you arent actually using the hard drive it would be using even less power then its already low drain.
You are probably gonna be better off looking into secondary batteries for a laptop if you want to really increase the battery life.
[quote=mousepound]The 512gb SSD alone should suit you for college, so feel free to take out the 1TB HDD. Honestly though, I'm not sure why your laptop would have 2 storage drives of massive capacity, unless you were shopping for a desktop instead.[/quote]
I'm using it for gaming too, not just college stuff
The 512gb SSD alone should suit you for college, so feel free to take out the 1TB HDD. Honestly though, I'm not sure why your laptop would have 2 storage drives of massive capacity, unless you were shopping for a desktop instead.
not entirely sure about your whole situation but what i can say is that 4.5 hours should be long enough presuming you charge it when you're back home/whenever for the next day