Pricing for a Hitachi 100GB 5400rpm drive

[miamirice]

What would be a fair price range for a brand new Hitachi 100GB 5400rpm drive?

[smugiri]

Try this link: newegg and zipzoomfly are usually good places if you are looking for great pricing and very fast cheap delivery.

Seems to be about $140 as of Nov 30th 2005.

[nirvana0001]

does it work with active protection system?

[smugiri]

Not sure about that: The drive specs mention nothing about APS.

IBM APS specs state that APS is available with specific Thinkpad models ( R50, R51, R52, T41, T42, T43, X40, X41 and X41 ) rather than with specific HDD offerings suggesting that APS support is in the system board, not in the HDD.

[nirvana0001]

Not sure about that: specs state that APS is available with specific Thinkpad models ( R50, R51, R52, T41, T42, T43, X40, X41 and X41 ) rather than with specific HDD offerings suggesting that APS support is in the system board, not in the HDD.

i don't think so. They have a sensor or something in the HDD, once it detect the movement of the tp, the "head" will move to a safety area in case it touch the platter.

[andrey]

does it work with active protection system?

Any hard drive should work with Active Protection System. The APS is motherboard dependent, it is not a hard drive feature. So, basically, you can use any hard drive you want and APS still will be active.

-- Andrey

[christopher_wolf]

Yup; I would have been *really* suprised if the APS Accelerometers were on the HDD itself.

[nirvana0001]

perhaps the motion sensor is not build inside the HDD; but not all the HDD can move their read-write head. when your tp gonna fall down, the hdd will try to move the read-write head but stop spinning the platters.