Laptop Hard Drive Questions...

WeaponX

Mar 21 2006, 02:58 AM

Hope that "loose" sounding part inside is normal like you said

I'm sure an external will be a cheaper solution as I have 3 of these already (use external enclosures on my IDE hard drives ), but I want to get a bigger HDD for this laptop so I don't need to constantly move my data to the external when it's full. I install many test programs and also have other multimedia files on it...

The HDD I have is a 30 GB Toshiba (MK3017GAP). Thinking about getting a 80GB HDD...

I did a search and found conflicting information. One site mentions this Toshiba HDD as having 7200 RPM, but another site says it's 4200 RPM. Which is correct? My laptop fan spins a lot, so I'm thinking it may be 7200 RPM but the speed the data is transferred, it's steering towards 4200 RPM land LOL.

 

 

 

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WeaponX

Apr 26 2006, 01:09 AM

Thanks for the additional info on this roggle. I still haven't decided to get one yet or not. I will compare the prices with the 7200 RPM drives and the 4200 ones to see if it's worth the upgrade.

The fan spinning is a moderate annoyance...but I guess I'll have to deal with it until I get a new laptop. The weird thing is that sometimes when the fan spins, I can hear that abnormal spinning sound. Seems like it might be spinning too fast...I backup my data frequently, so this shouldn't be a big problem. If it breaks down on me, I'm sure to get the 5400RPM drive at least...and a bump in the hard drive size too

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WeaponX

Apr 26 2006, 02:04 AM

This hard drive has been doing well for years...But there are times when I want it to perform some task faster (like data transfer when I backup my files). I will definitely go with the 5400 one. Don't need 100GB of space, just 60-80GB will do

The fan is the cooling one from the side. It spins every 15 minutes or so. Doesn't matter what I'm doing ...but usually I'm just browsing and IMing.

Thanks again for the replies. I'm going hard drive hunting now

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