Upgrading X31 hard drive...

[DannyE]

Hi guys,

I've just been looking at a few alternatives for upgrading the HDD in my trusty X31... A lot of people seem to recommend the Hitachi 7K100 but I had seen a Western Digital (WD1200BEVE - 120Gb, 5,400rpm, 8Mb buffer) for a reasonable price (at least for here in the UK), and was wondering if anyone had had experience of these drives?

The reason I was looking for alternatives is that my X31 does tend to run pretty hot, especially on the X3 base and I had heard that the 7K100 might make it run hotter still which I am keen to avoid. Also I intend to make the X31 a triple boot (windows XP Pro, Solaris 10 (just cos I'm curious), Fedora 7/Ubuntu 'gusty gibbon' or whatever its called now ) so the extra 20Gb would be useful...

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Dan

[ajkula66]

I've had one of those drives in a X24 (which are pretty hot themselves) and had absolutely no complaints. I'd recommend WD drives as a good, middle-of-the-road, no nonsense purchases.

[DannyE]

Hi ajkula66,

I've seen mostly good reviews but seeing you use it in an X series confirms it for me... I shall be parting with some acsh for it this weekend!!

Many thanks,

Dan

[jrhuggins]

I'm probably out-of-time but I put a 160g WD HDD in my x31 about a month ago. It is fine but it does run hot on the lap and I'm not really sure if that is post-WD or I have only just noticed it.

I bought it in YoYo just off Tottenham Court Rd for £80, which given I paid cash and they didn't charge me VAT I thought was cool.

[Henrycc]

Sorry to hijack this topic, but I just installed a Hitachi 7K100 and when I used the restore discs the restore partition does not work. When I F11 to restore it goes to the restore partition but the actual restore to factory condition goes to the dos prompt. Has anyone tried to restore to factory condition on a new hard drive and had it work?

[bujie]

Henrycc, the restore partition is on the factory default hard drive, that you changed with the hitachi. You have no more a restore to default partition.