Anyone using the Hitachi 500gb 7k500? Will APS work?

[Badger]

Wondering if anyone is using this Hitachi 500gb 7200rpm 2.5" drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822145275 in their T60 and can comment on the speed/noise/etc, especially vs a stock Hitachi 80gb 5400rpm or 100gb 7200rpm drive.

Also, it doesn't appear that this drive has any G-Force protection like some of the Seagates and Western Digitals... will APS work with this drive? (as a side quesiton, does APS even work with those seagate and wd drives that have the g-protection or are the features redundant and cause more harm to run together than one technology at a time?)

Thanks!

[Badger]

I found the following thread in case anyone else finds it useful: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=431402

Looks to be pretty fast and quiet.

Still unsure whether or not APS supports this drive, however.

[Harryc]

APS is not on the drive, it is built into the Systemboard of the Thinkpad. So it's not if the drive will support it (all do), it's a matter of whether of not your model of Thinkpad has APS. By the way, Frys has these drives for $99.
http://www.frys.com/product/5966014

[ZaZ]

NewEgg had for $80 last week with free shipping. The $9 shipping is deal killer for me. You can probably do better on eBay with bing.

[Badger]

Thanks guys, I understand that APS is not a HDD feature but a computer feature; I thought I had read on Lenovo's APS site a while ago that only compatible HDDs would work, but I don't see the same message on that page any longer.

Looks like a good buy and I'll hopefully be picking one up soon.