5k160 160Gb 2.5" SATA Hitachi Travelstar Now Shipping

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#1 Post by **shfawaz** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:51 am

OWC appears to be the only outlet that has these in stock ready for shipping at $279, an $80 premium over its ATA counterpart.

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Hitachi/0A28844/

2.5" 5400RPM 160Gb SATA 9.5mm drive will work with X60, T60, Z60 and Z61, all which have Serial ATA interfaces.

This is the largest shipping 2.5" SATA laptop drive shipping today. Toshiba announced a 200Gb 2.5" SATA drive shipping later this year, but it will be a painfully slow 4200RPM drive.

simms · #2 Post by **simms** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:15 am

Even then, this drive is only 5400rpm. Which performs bettter, this at 5400 or a 5k100 at 7200?

#3 Post by **shfawaz** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:19 am

simms wrote:Even then, this drive is only 5400rpm. Which performs bettter, this at 5400 or a 5k100 at 7200?

A 5k160 drive runs at 5400rpm. a 7k100 would run at 7200. Either way, there are no 160Gb notebook drives shipping today that are 7200RPM. I'd take 60Gb additional storage (a 60% increase over a 100Gb) over a slight increase in rotational speed that may or may not make an overall performance difference vs getting a major increase in storage.

This doesn't take into consideration that having a 100Gb drives means keeping it no more than 75% full for optimal performance and minimal fragmentation, another factor that affects drive read and write times. Having a 160Gb 75% full means 120Gb usable space to minimize fragmentation.

By the way, when ZipZoomFly has these, they are down to $209 landed.

FredFromNYC · #4 Post by **FredFromNYC** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:51 pm

I would also get the bigger drive over the one with the higher speed. shfawaz explains it very well.

Volker1965 · #5 Post by **Volker1965** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:17 pm

I would like to use this drive in my T60 if it doesn't cause the 2010-Error.

Does anyone run this drive without the 2010-Error on a T60 (my T60 is the 2007-4CU)?

Please tell me how it works !

DAH · #6 Post by **DAH** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:42 pm

No error on my T60p using the latest BIOS, 1.11, 1.10 or 2.00b. I don't notice a speed difference, it **feels** as fast to me as the 7200 rpm 100 GB drive it replaced. But that is subjective, and you might see and or feel a difference.

Volker1965 · #7 Post by **Volker1965** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:49 pm

THX DAH!

I think I'll buy it!

#8 Post by **tomh009** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:30 pm

shfawaz wrote:A 5k160 drive runs at 5400rpm. a 7k100 would run at 7200. Either way, there are no 160Gb notebook drives shipping today that are 7200RPM. I'd take 60Gb additional storage (a 60% increase over a 100Gb) over a slight increase in rotational speed that may or may not make an overall performance difference vs getting a major increase in storage.

A 7200 rpm drive provides a 33% increase in disk throughput, all other things being equal. You will most notice this in situations requiring reading or writing of large volumes of sequential data -- system startup, application startup, or reading/writing large image files in Photoshop.

To each his own, but I'm not going back to 5400 rpm. 7200 rpm makes much more difference to performance than a new CPU.

5k160 160Gb 2.5" SATA Hitachi Travelstar Now Shipping

5k160 160Gb 2.5" SATA Hitachi Travelstar Now Shipping

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