Replacing the Acer Aspire S3’s 7mm Hitachi HDD

Isn’t it too early for a relatively new machine to have its HDD conk out? QA issues na kaagad hehe

Acer hopefully can provide service to your unit.

so it really conked out? not dislodged or disconnected? promise, nakapagbackup pa ako a few hours bago ko sinoli sayo.

Sabi na nga ba sirain ang S3 ng Acer eh, buti nalang at hindi ako na-temp bumili agad kahit mura. Really better to just wait for more ultrabooks in the market.

Nope. Don’t blame ACER for the defective HDD, blame hitachi instead. This will not happen if the HDD used is from Western Digital. I have the same experience, Acer laptop with a Toshiba HDD. It’s HDD failed earlier compared to those laptop having the same model but with a Western Digital HDD.

Yep, blame Hitachi. The hard drive on my macbook pro broke down after two years… guess who the manufacturer is? Hitachi! No wonder they’re going out of the hard drive business.

Sir Abe, baka may mahanap kayo na SSD na 7mm din. Mahirap lang siguro maghanap.

Guess what, just today I had to replace my lappy’s SATA 2.5″ hdd. Just like Paul, I have the MBP too. AND YES the HDD is HITACHI. Same situation. I wake up and boot up, only to find that my HD died on me. Ugh, the sound was heart-wrenching. Mr. Abe, I did my own research and found out that SAMSUNG produces good drives. (Too bad SEAGATE already owns 91% of samsung’s hard drive biz) And yes I got myself one today. Was trying to decide between 320 and 500gb. Ended up going for the cheaper one. Hehehe. 320gb @ 3,500php. It feels like I made the right choice.

Sir Yuga,

I purchased 3 days ago a Seagate laptop HDD. Ganyan din sya kanipis, but they put a rubber on top of it para maging standard na 2.5 hdd. IMHO, by removing just the top rubber might fit in to your laptop. (although it might void the hdd warranty…)

Sir, this is the SSD that might fit your s3 drive bay. http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/mydigitalssd-128gb-bullet-proof-1.8-inch-microsata-ssd-mdssd-bp-s18128/ MAganda umorder dyan sa mydigitaldiscount, kasi hindi nila dinideclare lagi ang laman ng parcel, kaya sa sampung inorder ko dyan, lahat walang tax na siningil sa akin, lagi sila declare ng super mura at ibang item declare nila.

Sir Abe, haven’t you heard of eBay?

Acer should have used a SSD in this Ultrabook as other OEMs have. Spinning platters would not last long in a notebook designed to be lugged around.

Wow, I’ve got to admire your bravery at attempting to replace the hard-drive yourself. It’s
unusual for Acer HD’s to malfunction.

I have an Acer S3 and I was able to purchase a Seagate 320GB 2.5in 7mm HDD from V-Mall Greenhills.

Openning the S3 chassis was simple enough. Unscrew all the screws and it’s open. Cloning the HDD’s contents took a couple of hours (or so) but once swapped, the S3 booted just fine.

BTW, I noticed that using my disk partition utility that I could access the SDD. I could re-format it so I can directly access it in Windows7. But for now, I left it as is.

Replace it with SSD.
All Intel 320 and Crucial M4 SSD has only 7mm height

has anyone actually installed an SSD in this ultrabook? Did you encounter any issues?

HI Wish I had seen this before I replaced my hard drive last week – I too popped in a ssd – ocz agility 3 I got on offer. and I too noticed the keyboard bulge !!! again removing the cover meant it fitted fine it works well too. I made an error ages ago of installing windows 8 and deleting the 20gb ssd drive from windows – anyone know how I can get it back – it’s still fitted but no idea where it is or what I have to do to get it showing up in hardware >??

Does anyone have a copy of the restore image for the Aspire S3 MS2346..? i can pay you….

ACER wants 46 dollars for it….