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5400 rpm hard drive recommendations...
Hi,
I've been reading up on this forum about the Z63A and I'm pretty set on purchasing one over the next week or so.
Can you recommend a good, reliable, speedy, low temperature 5400 rpm hard drive to go with the Z63A? Or are all the manufacturers pretty much making equal quality stuff?
In particular, I guess I'm worried about the HD heat problem that many have alluded to. My friend who has an IBM T41/T42 says he has no heat issues with his notebook on his lap.
Thanks for your insight,
K
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Hitachi or Seagate.
Most of our notebooks ship with Hitachi hard drives.
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Western Digital is cool (not in my Z63a). I have the Hitachi inside my Z63a, it gets quite warm on my lap.
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I have a Seagate - it has been working great. They are supposedly quiet and cool.
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Western Digital Scorpio.
Get it and get it now. :D
I have one and it's great, always trusted WD, but make sure you get the one with 8mb cache. I didn't :(, but it's still great.
Cheers,
Mike
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I'm with Shampoo on this one.
I've actually had these 3 brands in my W3V. A hitachi 4K60 4200rpm 60GB, a seagate 5400.2 100GB and right now using a 5400rpm 80GB WD800VE.
Allow me to explain. The 4200rpm hitachi came with my pc and it was cool, but slow and only 60GB. The Seagate was hot but fast and 100GB! I got sweaty from the warmth it produced on the palmrest of my W3V and the battery time was somewhat shorter.
And my current HD, the WD800VE 80GB with 8mb cache is my top choice out of these 3(I wanted a 100GB WD but they are hard to find) because of these reasons:
WD800VE is:
*As cool as many 4200rpm
*As power hungry as many 4200rpm
*As fast as 5400rpm drives
*Only 80GB :(
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I'd have to disagree with all of the above....... Seagate has been our drive of choice over the last two years and although we've sold some of the others and also tested even more that we'd never sell...... the Seagates momentous brand was built on 5400rpm drives with the heat and battery life of others (namely hitachi's) 4200rpm drives..... They've won a lot of awards for them and even today I think the performance of their 5400 and 7200 outperform the 5400 and 7200 that Hitachi make....... it's proven that they are not hot, loud, or battery hungry....
... that seagate must have been defective.
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If my Seagate drive is defective I don't know. Porhaps, porhaps not.
The Seagate 5400.2 series is specced to use more power than the WD W800-Series. Since speccs can't be trusted silentpcreview actually measures the power drain on both these drives in 2 reviews(WD, Seagate) And they are pretty much right on par with my experiences withe heat and battery life of these drives. The WD has the same(or lower) power usage as the 4200rpm drives and seagate uses ~50% more power both in idle and when seeking.
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There's a useful review of 12 notebook HDDs at http://www.laptoplogic.com/reviews/d...rt=full&page=1 . Draw your own conclusions.
John
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Woah, glad I found this thread. Just picked up a WD, probably going to return it after this test. I've lived with none else but WD's in my desktop systems, but I guess that will change for notebook.
Trying to decide now...60 gig 5400rpm hitachi for $90, or 60 gig 7200rpm hitachi for $126? (newegg) Battery life isn't an issue according to that test since the 7200rpm did better in battery life than the 5400. My only concern now is reliability between the two.