Laptop hard drive recommendations?

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 3:30 pm

A friend of mine gave me a broken laptop to keep if I can fix it, and it appears as if the hard drive has crapped out. This is a new domain for me, but as far as laptop hard drives are concerned, I was thinking getting this:

http://www.pcmall.com/pcmall/shop/detai ... 414949.asp
Although out of stock below, there are more specs here:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe ... ode=100526

Thoughts? Other recommendations? Will this eat away at my battery life?

Cuda68-2 · Post by **Cuda68-2** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:44 pm

Stay away from those Travel Star drives. They are mostly in Dells but peeps eye them because they are cheap. We change them left and right at work and about %20 of the new replacement drives are bad right out of the box.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:42 pm

Fujitsu is a good brand to go with IMO.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:23 am

I ended up ordering the Hitachi from www.mwave.com . It seems as if Hitachi has a (or near) monopoly on 7200RPM mobile drives.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:27 pm

I have had a good run with the 2.5" Samsung Spinpoint drives.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 10:16 pm

Hitachi should be good, heres some info so you can second guess all you want.

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2603