I looked around a little bit and couldn't find anything directly
relating to this on the net.
My buddy's daughter bought a notebook computer and suddenly I got an
email in a panic that she couldn't save her file. Not a lot of detail,
but a subsequent email said that once she plugged in, she
I've only had a laptop for about 18 months now and just experienced my first
HD failure. I actually got a heads-up from SMART a few days prior that
failure was imminent so no data was lost. But I've never dealt with
notebook HDs before so I was wondering if there was anything I should be
looking
At 08:56 AM 21/02/2008, Brian Weeden wrote:
Are there any incompatibility things that I should be on the look out for?
Or are most notebook drives pretty much interchangeable?
They are interchangeable (at least in every case I've seen.) I would
get an Western Digital drive over any others.
Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are there any incompatibility things that I should be on the look out for?
Or are most notebook drives pretty much interchangeable?
That unit sold with 30/40 GB drives, there might be a BIOS limitation on
going much larger. I would guess an 80Gb would
I've got an 80GB 2.5 drive that I bought for a portable USB that I am going
to stick in. Then I will get a bigger 2.5 drive to put into the USB case.
My backup solution is twofold. All my data is backup with JungleDisk to my
Amazon S3 account. So even if the worst happens and my house burns
about 350GB of data.
Good luck on your search,
Tim The Beave Lider
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Subject: [H] Notebook hard
looking at a couple of notebooks both about the same price, one is 1.5MHz
Pentium M and the other is 2.4MHz Celeron.
First glance tells me the celeron but I wonder if that is true especially if
the PM is 90nm stuff
opinions intel blue gods :{)
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units are at Fry's and are GQ's. I set one up for a customer and thought
they were very nice for the bucks.
thanks
At 07:40 AM 6/5/2005, Mark Dodge Poked the stick with:
Pentium M is cooler and based on
the latest dye and I think based on a P4,
but the Celeron in this case would
Will I see a speedboost in my aging notebook if I go from my old 4200RPM
drive to a 5400RPM one?
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I would think so.
Bobby
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Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 2:28 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Notebook drive
Will I see a speedboost in my aging notebook if I go from my
According to this reference, on a Thinkpad T23, it would make quite a
difference:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=5726highlight=hard+drive+5400+speed+improvement
Make sure that the thickness or height of the new drive fits the slot or
the carrier in the notebook.
Robert Turnbull,
At 05:13 PM 4/20/2005, JRS typed:
Definately. I put some 5400's in my older C600's that are only
P3-800's, and with the update from the 4200's they had, they all sped
up for daily use.
Mine is a P3-700 I certainly noticed the difference when I upgraded from
a IBM 4200 20g to a Seagate 5400 rpm
Don't do that!
Why?
Because you'll put some poor Indian out of work!
Oh well, let em go back to making sword canes carpets.
LOL. I did mine few months back and it's definitely not worse than
before! Dunno about batt life as I tend to run plugged in.
Wayne Johnson wrote:
At 05:13 PM 4/20/2005,
At 08:05 PM 4/20/2005, warpmedia typed:
LOL. I did mine few months back and it's definitely not worse than before!
Dunno about batt life as I tend to run plugged in.
While I never timed my batt life before when I was running the 4200 I
haven't noticed any decrease in battery life with the 5400
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