New Hard Disk for T23

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stuarty · #1 Post by **stuarty** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:02 pm

Hi folks, I'm looking to buy a new hard disk for my T23 laptop. Could some recommend a good place to buy in the UK. If possible I was looking for something around the 120 GB 7200 rpm range.

Any thoughts.

Thanks

Stu

lithium726 · #2 Post by **lithium726** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:19 pm

120GB 7200RPM doesnt exist.

100GB 7200RPM is the highest, or you can get a 160GB 5400RPM

stuarty · #3 Post by **stuarty** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 1:44 pm

Many thanks

I'll check out the 100 GB disks

morgie · #4 Post by **morgie** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:31 pm

Hi Stuart, I'd recommend http://www.ebuyer.com/ From my experience they have always had a good range, price and customer service.

stuarty · #5 Post by **stuarty** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:30 am

Thanks for the info.

I've been looking at the HITACHI TRAVELSTAR 100GB LAPTOP HARDDISK 7200RPM. Its going on eBay for £108.00.

This is the kind of spec I'm looking for. Does anyone have an opinion on this disks performance and does this appear to be value for money?

JHEM · #6 Post by **JHEM** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:37 am

Search the Forum for 7K100 and you'll find hundreds of posts extolling its and its forerunner's (7K60) virtues.

Regards,

James

lithium726 · #7 Post by **lithium726** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:21 pm

the 7k60/7k100 disks are great. Fast, reasonably quiet and they speed up the laptop quite a bit. A 100GB model is going to be faster than the rest of the models (80GB, 60GB) due to a higher data density, and a 160GB 5400RPM drive is going to be very close to that one due to data density, but you will definatly lose seek times. I have a 60GB 5400RPM Fujitsu drive in my T23 and a 60GB 7k60 Drive in my T40 and the difference is definatly noticable, but might not be worth the price too some. For me, I wouldnt have anything but a 7200RPM drive in my main laptop and a 10K drive in my main desktop

awdark · #8 Post by **awdark** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:39 pm

What speed is the stock hard drive anyways? I figure 4200rpm but it feels slow enough to be 3600rpm.

lithium726 · #9 Post by **lithium726** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:12 pm

for a T20?

yeah, it might be 3600RPM, its old enough... probably has 256-512k cache too.

Highwayman · #10 Post by **Highwayman** » Mon May 01, 2006 7:02 pm

awdark wrote:What speed is the stock hard drive anyways? I figure 4200rpm but it feels slow enough to be 3600rpm.

Stock HD in my T20 was a 20gb 4200 Travelstar. I pulled it recently, replacing it with a 5400 40Gb Hitachi/Travelstar.

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