better harddrive than Hitachi 7k100?

[peterjk]

In 3-6 months the 7K200 will be released with up to 200GB capacity, perpendicular recording (higher density = FASTER platter transfer rate) and possibly the addition of some REALLY large NAND caches to make it a hybrid drive.

The new Seagate drives all seem to be SATA, do you have any idea of this will also be true of the 7K200, or if it will also be availabe with a PATA interface?

Thanks
Peter

[tomh009]

So far Hitachi has not given any indication of dropping PATA -- and with Seagate not offering it, their PATA revenues (from disk upgrades) should remain pretty solid.

Incidentally, here is an excellent article on the Hitachi plans, including the new 7200 rpm drives, encryption and hybrid technology, all coming out in the first half of this year.
Translated article from elec.cc

[Johan]

I'm very interested in this issue as well: The most silent 7200 RPM 2.5" HDD, and have been Google'ing it quite a bit. To me, it seems that there may be some variation in HDD noise of (apparently!) the same drives, possibly because the vendors (e.g. Hitachi and Seagate) are using motors from different manufacturers in drives of the same type. For a relatively new 3.5" Seagate drive this observation has been confirmed by many users; that drive comes in a silent version and in a noisy version - see details here: http://forums.storagereview.net/index.p ... 660&st=145

There are some recent reviews claiming that Hitachi's 7200 RPM 2.5" HDDs are most quiet; see e.g. http://www.silentpcreview.com/article297-page1.html whereas this review http://www.storagereview.com/articles/2 ... 1AS_1.html claim that the Seagate 7200.1 is more quiet.

Seems that there is no definite answer to this question... (?).

Regards,

Johan

[gred]

I just bought a T60p 8744-J2U, with a 100gb 7200rpm drive. Now, could anyone englighten me as to what make/model the HD would be? Reason I ask is because I have a 7k100 from my dead T42 just sitting around while I wait for the new machine. Would it be worth swapping the "old" 7k100 HD into my new T60p? And would it void my warranty?

[laundromatt]

you can try to do a direct swap, but you won't be successful. the T60s use SATA drives, the T4x series laptops don't.

if you really want to, you can use the drive from your T42 in your T60 with an ultrabay adapter. i don't have first hand experience with this, but the word on this board is that this does work.

[steveg47]

you can try to do a direct swap, but you won't be successful. the T60s use SATA drives, the T4x series laptops don't.

if you really want to, you can use the drive from your T42 in your T60 with an ultrabay adapter. i don't have first hand experience with this, but the word on this board is that this does work.

Yes, it does indeed work with some performance degradation due to the slower ide interface.