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
You need to figure out if the notebook hard drive is SATA or PATA. Once you
figured that out, try to find a drive with fall protection. Toshiba makes
some good drives for this, but are a bit slow in speed. If your looking for
performance, Samsung has some good ones out right now. Unfortunately
add's do not say
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
I would think so.
Bobby
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Subject: [H] Notebook drive
Will I see a speedboost in my aging notebook if I go from my
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
