You can buy a bare laptop drive and put it in the specific case your brand
laptop uses.  We bought Toshiba and Fujitsu bare drives and put it in the
existing hard drive case when we upgraded Compaq LTE 5150 laptops.  If you
want a second drive that you can swap in and out quickly, spend a bit more
for the specific housing you need.

"Jose E. Dominguez" wrote:

> Are laptop drives the same? I mean, can a drive from a Toshiba be
> installed in an AST laptop as long as the interface and drive physical
> size is the same?

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