Today I received my additional 4GB RAM and an eSATA hard drive caddy.\u00a0 The Dell Latitude 6500 takes 2 memory boards.\u00a0 The original in mine had 4GB RAM.\u00a0 I added an additional 4GB board this morning.\u00a0 I\u2019m running Windows 7 x64 on my smaller hard disk so I\u2019ll be able to use all that memory when booted up in the desktop OS.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s an eSATA socket which gives me great performance for external storage.\u00a0 I had installed Windows Server 2008 R2 on the Dell supplied 250GB SATA disk.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to be \u201copening\u201d up the laptop and using a screwdriver every time I want to change OS.\u00a0 Plus I didn\u2019t want to do native VHD because it would eat up disk space on a single laptop disk.<\/p>\n
I put the Server disk into the caddy.\u00a0 Plugging in it\u2019s two cables into the laptop (USB power and eSATA) gives me that disk.\u00a0 When I hit F12 to see my boot options the disk caddy appears \u2013 as the next boot device after the internal disk.\u00a0 I can select it and go into my Hyper-V demo environment.\u00a0 How sweet is that?\u00a0 The caddy was around \u20ac25 including courier delivery, is not much bigger than a 2.5\u201d SATA drive and comes with a little wallet to protect it.\u00a0 This is a seriously cool and flexible demo lab now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today I received my additional 4GB RAM and an eSATA hard drive caddy.\u00a0 The Dell Latitude 6500 takes 2 memory boards.\u00a0 The original in mine had 4GB RAM.\u00a0 I added an additional 4GB board this morning.\u00a0 I\u2019m running Windows 7 x64 on my smaller hard disk so I\u2019ll be able to use all that memory … Continue reading “Additional Hardware For My Hyper-V Laptop”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}