On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 07:55:59PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
*AVOID* 2.5" IDE Laptop drives. I've had pretty bad experience with them, 1. They heat up a lot 2. Are slow 3. Fail quite often (this could be due to the heat) (face problems with Toshiba and IBM)
I have the opposite experience. My Net4801 is running 24/7 for one year with a Momentus drive (5400 RPMs) and it is neither slow nor hot. Hitachi also produces drives that are designed to run 24/7 (Eudurastar, now obsoleted by E7K60 and E7K100 drives). My Mac Mini is running with a 7K100 (80 Gb, 7200 RPM, 8 Mb cache) drive and it is as fast as any 3,5" drive. It seems to heat up more than the Momentus since the fan often wakes up, but it works reliably.
