T42 80 GB hard drive question

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pdudas · #1 Post by **pdudas** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 6:30 am

Hi!

I have a T42 with Fujitsu MHT2040AH 40GB hard drive.

I tried to change the hard drive to a 80Gb drive.
It was Toshiba MK8026GAX. There are 16MB cache in this 5400rpm drive.
It was a lot more slower than the Fujitsu, and was louder and hotter.
(I transferred the system to the new drive, then tried a clean factory recovery)(both of them was slow).

Do you have any idea, what drive should I use to have an advantages like the old one? (silent, fast, low power consumption)

Thanks in advance!

ndee · #2 Post by **ndee** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 6:37 am

I have the 60GB 7'200rpm harddisk and I'm perfectly happy with it

stgreek · #3 Post by **stgreek** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 7:03 am

ndee wrote:I have the 60GB 7'200rpm harddisk and I'm perfectly happy with it

I second that. The 7K60 Travelstar is the best 2.5" drive at the moment. Very fast, cool and silent.

pdudas · #4 Post by **pdudas** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 10:51 am

Ok guys, you win!

I'll try the 7K60.

sktn77a · #5 Post by **sktn77a** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 8:38 pm

I installed the Hitachi 80Gb 5400rpm drive in my T42 and it's silent.

sugo · #6 Post by **sugo** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 8:42 pm

I found my Hitachi 5k80 pretty quiet after I turned on acoustic management.

dr.b · #7 Post by **dr.b** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:49 am

stgreek wrote:
ndee wrote:I have the 60GB 7'200rpm harddisk and I'm perfectly happy with it
I second that. The 7K60 Travelstar is the best 2.5" drive at the moment. Very fast, cool and silent.

very fast, but compared to other 5.4k drives not that much faster (use real world benches, this drives is just fast in burst mode)
cool -> yes
silent -> hm, if that drive is silent a toshiba gas or even some fujitsu drives would be sub-silent

, in fact it is not loud

ThinkPad · #8 Post by **ThinkPad** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:56 pm

Where do you get your hard drives from?

#9 Post by **JHEM** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:23 pm

Thinkpad wrote:Where do you get your hard drives from?

I prefer Zipzoomfly.com. However, I'm not hesitant to take advantage od special offers from other sources. The last two 7K60s I purchased came from Dell on a special sale for $120 each after applying some coupons.

Regards,

James

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