Does Toshiba CL-45-C4330 have a removable hard drive?

[daves66nova]

I've tried googling it, but I don't see anything that says it has or not. I took the bottom panel off and this is 2 pics. Anyone see it? Yeah, it's an old one but it's a beater that i use around the house for unimportant tasks.

 

[ctechbob]

Did you receive the computer with the HD missing? There's a slot for it on the lower left of the picture.
You should be able to throw any 2.5" drive in there. SSD is Preferred for speed and reliability.

Although, it looks like you're missing the mounting cage for it, but you might be able to get around that with some really good double-sided tape if you don't have the cage handy. For a beater that you're not going to throw around a bunch, it would probably work just fine so long as those SATA connectors don't raise the drive up a bunch, even then you could stack some tape up to get it to the required height.

 

[Dave9]

Old? If it came with Win10, it is not old, though is low end.

It appears to have a 32GB SSD but by that I mean eMMC, likely the flash chips and controller soldered to the mainboard.

 

[Tomioka]

If the specs I'm reading is correct it has an Intel Celeron N2840 which is common on garbage tier laptops. Which means it has only 32GB of built in eMMC storage with no way to upgrade or to add additional internal storage.

Only way at add more storage is to pop in the largest SD card it can support.

 

[daves66nova]

Ok, i think it has the eMMC. i'm using this laptop to post this thread. I've tried using Readyboost, but it just says that it can't run readyboost because it already running fast enough and Readyboost would not make any difference. So I can add an ssd onto that sata connection?

 

[y_p_w]

As others noted, it's 32 GB eMMC. That could be soldered onto the main board.

As for the slot, they might just be making a single chassis for different configurations that might include a hard drive or SATA SSD. There may not be an actual SATA connector because that costs money. I think I could tell if I saw it in person, but that photo doesn't show enough to tell.

 

[Pew]

Ok, i think it has the eMMC. i'm using this laptop to post this thread. I've tried using Readyboost, but it just says that it can't run readyboost because it already running fast enough and Readyboost would not make any difference. So I can add an ssd onto that sata connection?

I can't tell from the picture, is there a SATA slot on the other side of the motherboard? It kind of looks like there is but hard to judge from the picture and I can't find any website online that says that laptop comes with a SATA port.

 

[daves66nova]

Here are some pics of the Sata port. Looks like nothing there. What you think?

 

[ctechbob]

I was mistaken, thought I saw the edges of the connectors peeking out from under there. Looks like there's a whole lot of nothing. About the only thing you could do at this point for more storage would be a low profile usb drive plugged into one of the ports. You wouldn't want to run programs off of it, but you could at least store data on it.

 

[dubber09]

Kinda reminds me a very low end laptop I picked up in Dubai at Carrefour 3-4 years back, the SATA port would take a SSD/HDD that could be used as storage disk only, couldn't be made bootable.
Your Toshiba should have memory card reader, just use that for extra storage.

 

[daves66nova]

Where would that reader be, in the pics?

 

[dubber09]

Where would that reader be, in the pics?

Right hand side near USB port on outside?

 

[JTK]

Dave, I thought I was the only one left. LOL

I'm typing on an old Satellite L775 with windows 7. Pretty sure the hard drive is steam powered.