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Please recommend internal hard drive?
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:40 am
by sgogula
Model: T61 (7658-CTO)
OS: Windows 7
I would like to upgrade my internal hard drive to any thing more than 250GB. Please could you recommend the compatible model.
Last year I upgraded to seagate 250GB 7200rpm but looks like it is not compatible, laptop goes into sleep mode after using it for few hours and it is quite noisy and also produces lot of heat.
Re: Please recommend internal hard drive?
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:26 pm
by sarbin
i've had nothing but good luck with hitachi drives. my t60p is equipped with the 500gb/7200rpm model. fast, quiet & big. others here have had good luck with western digital blacks. i've got one of those in my x61t. so far, so good.
hth.
Re: Please recommend internal hard drive?
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:15 pm
by sgogula
sarbin wrote:i've had nothing but good luck with hitachi drives. my t60p is equipped with the 500gb/7200rpm model. fast, quiet & big. others here have had good luck with western digital blacks. i've got one of those in my x61t. so far, so good.
hth.
Could you please suggest me the model number in hitachi?
Re: Please recommend internal hard drive?
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:34 pm
by sarbin
sure. will post later this evening when i get home.
Re: Please recommend internal hard drive?
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 4:26 pm
by sarbin
still need to confirm, but i think this is the exact drive i purchased:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822145370
Re: Please recommend internal hard drive?
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:17 pm
by sysiphus
Another vote for the Western Digital Scorpio Blacks. Fast, not too noisy, and great warranty.
Re: Please recommend internal hard drive?
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:45 pm
by TOMSrolla
sgogula wrote:Model: T61 (7658-CTO)
OS: Windows 7
I would like to upgrade my internal hard drive to any thing more than 250GB. Please could you recommend the compatible model.
Last year I upgraded to seagate 250GB 7200rpm but looks like it is not compatible, laptop goes into sleep mode after using it for few hours and it is quite noisy and also produces lot of heat.
same thing here...
My T60p came with a seagate 250GB 5400rpm and and replace it with a Momentus 500gb 7200 and an ultrabay slim adapter for the Hitachi 7K200 HDD
My backup T42p have a Hitachi 7K100 as main drive + 5K120 on the ultrabay and has perform well w/o any hiccups all those years in used.
Go HITACHI !!!!!! 7200rpm models
Re: Please recommend internal hard drive?
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:51 pm
by Binh
sysiphus wrote:Another vote for the Western Digital Scorpio Blacks. Fast, not too noisy, and great warranty.
My Western Digital Scorpio Black 3200BEKT is fast, but very noisy on idle (I can hear the spinning noise within a distance of 1m). Now I am thinking to replace it by a 500GB 7200rpm Hitachi drive.
Re: Please recommend internal hard drive?
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:34 pm
by sarbin
yep...
just confirmed i have the drive above:
HTS725050A9A364
pretty sure i paid more than the current $64.99, also. might need to pick up another one...
Re: Please recommend internal hard drive?
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:36 am
by Johan
With respect to a new HDD for your T61, you may want to see the suggestions pointed to in
this post.
Notice that you may speed up your T61
significantly if implementing the
T61p bios hack for ICH8M SATA-II 3 Gbps.
Johan
Re: Please recommend internal hard drive?
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:18 pm
by dziobolek
sgogula wrote:Model: T61 (7658-CTO)
OS: Windows 7
I would like to upgrade my internal hard drive to any thing more than 250GB. Please could you recommend the compatible model.
My vote - Seagate Momentus XT 500GB SATA/300 7200rpm 4GB 32MB - IMHO the only sensible choice in price/performance category.
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/produc ... laptop-hdd
The next in line - SSD.