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Hi everyone, I've been lucky enough to compared a x60 against the x60s (see post in hot wrist rest thread). I'm sticking with the x60s because of its quieter fan, HOWEVER

The x60 has a Hitachi 40GB Travelstar 0A26922 HTS541040GSA00
which is near silent, the x60s has a 60gb Fujitsu MHV2080BH, this drive makes the chassis vibrate and has a low 'whoosh' idle noise.

Can anyone recommend a quiet 60-80gb drive with no vibration?

Thanks

I've found the TravelStar's are the best for running quiet, in my own very limited experience. You can also go with a solid state drive, but they are extremely expensive and low availability right now.

my X60s is came with Hitachi 60Gb which runs very quietly,
fujitsu hard drive should be running silently too, this is what i have in my Sony Vaio lappy

For ultimate quiet check out the Samsung Spinpoint 5400 RPM drives. I had one in a PowerBook that was the quietest drive I'd ever used.

I've found both the 100gb versions of the Hitachi travelstar (lenovo p/n 39T2603) and the Toshiba drive (lenovo p/n 39T2719) to be very quiet. We have hundreds, no thousands, of these in our machines at IBM hq where i work.

I dont trust the hitachi tho, i've had 2 hard drive crashes both hitachis in the last year or so.

I wouldn't go any smaller than 100gb... because my 100gb drive has only 79.7gb of available space after the OS and ibm preload. Also, the 100gb doesn't command the massive price premium anymore like it did last yr.

SkiBunny wrote:I've found both the 100gb versions of the Hitachi travelstar (lenovo p/n 39T2603) and the Toshiba drive (lenovo p/n 39T2719) to be very quiet. We have hundreds, no thousands, of these in our machines at IBM hq where i work.

I dont trust the hitachi tho, i've had 2 hard drive crashes both hitachis in the last year or so.

I have the TravelStar 100 GB 7K100 (7200 rpm) -- very quiet, and no vibration (unlike the earlier TravelStar 60 GB, which was pretty quiet but had a significant vibration).

Reliability ... I have been very happy with the IBM/Hitachi drives (Ultrastar, DeskStar and TravelStar) in general, but I have no statistical data to back that up.

I have a Fujitsu MHT2080AH (5400 rpm 80GB) drive on my laptop. It is dead silent -- never heard a word from it in two years.

tomh009 wrote: Reliability ... I have been very happy with the IBM/Hitachi drives (Ultrastar, DeskStar and TravelStar) in general, but I have no statistical data to back that up.

The hitachi drives in the T40's T41's were notorious for failing, tho i dont have the data, i read many anecdotes and experienced it first-hand myself.

My x60 has a hitachi, so i hope that they no longer crash. The drive gets hotter in the x60 than it did in the t41

I've noticed that my x60 hard drive ranges from 28-38 degrees.

SkiBunny wrote:My x60 has a hitachi, so i hope that they no longer crash. The drive gets hotter in the x60 than it did in the t41. I've noticed that my x60 hard drive ranges from 28-38 degrees.

What dirve type is it? 5K100? Mine is a 7K100 ... mine typically runs around 40C in my x31 (the 7K100 is rated for 5C to 55C ambient temperature).

I have an X60s with a FUJITSU MHV2100BH 100gb drive. I can't hear any kind of noise, vibration, whatsoever. I feel pretty lucky as I have not had any serious problems with this laptop other than minor hardware issues. Once, I had to have the keyboard replaced because something sticky got under the back space key. Luckily I purchased ThinkPad protection.

When I first received the laptop the media bay battery would not fit and they shipped a new battery and an Ultrabay.

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ThinkPad X60s, CoreDuo 1.66 Ghz, 2GB 667MHz DDR2, Multiburner
WWAN, Bluetooth, Atheros, Ultrabase, 100GB 5400rpm SATA

Silent PC Review's tests show that the Seagate Momentus 5400.3 is the quietest SATA drive.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article29-page2.html

Idle noise, seek noise and vibration are all rated or measured.