Ctitanic has posted some extensive details (with pictures and warnings!) about how he upgraded the existing 40Gb drive to 100GB in the Tablet Kiosk eo. Now he’s free to load up as much music and video as he wants. The eo comes with a 2.5″ drive which is easy to get hold of and also available with higher spindle speeds than the 1.8″ drive in the Samsung Q1.
In May, GuardianZX9 reported that he’d upgraded the 1.8″ drive in the Samsung Q1 so its seems that there’s no problem upgrading either of the two available Origami UMPCs.
What i’d love to see though is someone swapping out the drive in the Samsung for a Flash HDD. You could save quite a bit of power as well as boosting speeds!
Samsung says that the Flash disk consumes only 0.1W when not in use and just 0.5W under load. For comparison, a typical mobile hard drive consumes somewhere between 1W and 2W of power in seek, read and write processes and between 0.2W and 0.8W when idle.
Remember that taking apart your ultra mobile PC is likely to invalidate your warranty.
In the Product Portal.
Samsung Q1 datasheet, images and links.
Tablet Kiosk eo v7110 datasheet images and links.
Regards
Steve / Chippy.
