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The Eee PC has been the most popular net book since it started selling, namely because it was the first, but also because it is damn good at what it does. However a few people have some qualms with it, mainly about the fairly low storage that it offers: 12GB.  I know I could easily fill that in a day and obviously the people at the Japanese company GreenHouse agree with me as they have released some Eee PC hard drive upgrades.
You can now replace your measly 12GB SSD with either the 32GB or 64GB modules which will over quintuple your storage, making the Eee PC a much more attractive option.  The specifications aren’t awful (considering that it is for the Eee PC) with 35MB/s and 15MB/s, but comparing that to a desktop internal hard drive it is poor and even for a laptop it is slow.
Obviously, there is a fairly substantial cost as well, with the 32GB and 64GB modules costing around $143 and $292 respectively which totally eradicates the idea of the low cost netbook.  Perhaps another mark against the ever increasingly popular netbook?  Possibly so, as you have to remember that the net books aren’t supposed to be good spec-wise, they are supposed to be light, mobile and cheap, which the Eee PC (as it stands) is.  So perhaps this is pointless, perhaps the whole idea of an Eee PC is not that they are good specification wise, more that they are mobile.
All I can say is that if you want a good spec laptop it would be worth your while sacrificing space for price and getting a full size laptop, as opposed to spending loads and getting an inferior spec netbook that is just small.  However if you have already made the investment into an Eee PC, perhaps buying some more space would not be a bad idea at all.

Product [GreenHouse]