Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:31:22 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] 40GB 2.5" HDDs for MP3 use
At 12:49 AM 20/09/2003 -0700, you wrote:
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 07:43:24 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 40GB 2.5" HDDs for MP3 use
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Matt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is having a few problems posting to the
> list at the moment so he's asked me to post this on his behalf ...
>
> >I'm about to order a Toshiba 40GB MK4018GAS (HDD2170) from
> >www.AxionTech.com in Texas for $121 plus shipping (no tax shipped outside
> TX:
> >
> >http://www.axiontech.com/prdt.php?item=10446
> >
> >If anyone knows of a cheaper source before I order, I'd appreciate hearing
> >about it.
I just bought a Hitachi/IBM IC25N040ATMR04 (Mdl 80GN) 40GB from BananaPC.com for $107 plus ~$7 shipping. It came quickly and was packed very well.
Lee
Hmmm... tempting price... but I've had a couple sour experiences with IBM drives Hitachi manufactured. I'm in the process of boxing up my 46GM Deskstar desktop HDD right now that went south, along with my 340MB Microdrive that stopped functioning in my NEX II MP3 player, and in the PCMCIA slot in my L70 EPR.
Ouch!
Having said that I've had to send a couple of Deskstars back myself due to the 75GXP problem ...
I've had nothing but good experiences with Toshiba HDDS and notebooks. Even the Fujitsu 20GB HDD I bought a year and a half ago has never worked well.
It started sounding like a 747 taking off about 2 months after I got it, and after 10-15 minutes of play, all my MP3s start clicking faintly. Stop the system, let it rest, boot it up, and no MP3 clicking.
I dunno, my Fujitsu 20GB from about 2 years ago is running quite nicely ... every hard drive manufacturer has bad batches, heck at work we had a Toshiba notebook die, according to the supplier they had a bad run of hard drives (as in they got to the stage where if someone walked in with a Toshiba tucked under their arm they'd straight out say "Dead hard drive?") ...
Having said that, the sound that these drives made when they died was rather strange ... you could almost dance to the rhythmic noise they made ...
I want the 40GB specifically for playing MP3s. So I tend to want to stick with Toshiba.
But wait! It does spin at 4200 RPM. And is that a >8MB< buffer on the 80GN!!? This as opposed to the 2GB buffer on the Toshiba MK4018GAS:
2GB buffer? ;-)
I do wonder if your poor little L70 is going to survive with a 4200RPM drive in it, both from a power and from a heat perspective (and remember, heat tends to kill hard drives as well) ... granted it probably gets a little hotter round here than where you are (or does it?) but I used to have all sorts of heat problems with my L50 and the 20 gig Fujitsu ...
http://www.bellmicro.com/VendorShowcase/hitachi/downloads/HGSTTravelstar80GN.pdf
Okay... now I'm interested.
Did you just get yours in the past few days Lee? Or have you had it for a while? Have you put it through any heavy CPU load processes like encoding MP3s?
Has anyone else had any experience with these, or know how well Hitachi is making the Travelstars these daze? Or will I be returning yet another Hitachi/IBM in a year from now?
*shrug* I've gotten to the stage where I'm resigned to pot luck on these things ... I know people who swear by Quantum hard drives yet I've personally seen 5 die and heard of at least another 20 from close associates, I've yet to have or see a Maxtor or Western Digital die yet I've got associates who say they're complete junk ... until the 75GXP problem neither myself nor my associates ever had a problem with IBM drives yet even the replacement set of drives IBM sent me are showing signs of dying ...
- Raymond
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