New hard drive for IBM T20
I need a new drive for my old T20. It's pretty full and Spinrite says it's dying. The current drive is a Hitachi 11G, probably 4200 RPM. Of course I can go bigger and faster, but should I? I just read a review at THG, which lavished praise on the new 7200 RPM Hitachi, and says faster isn't a problem with power consumption. But I'm concerned about heat. I leave my computer running almost 24/7. It's been dead reliable so far, and I don't want to mess with it. I know others have had overheating problems after putting faster drives in older machines. Noise is an issue too -- I like my computer to be as quiet as possible. It's one reason I chose the T20 initially. Any thoughts? Matt O.
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"Matt O'Toole" <matt@deltanet.com> wrote in message news:34me6tF4f9ni8U1@individual.net... > I need a new drive for my old T20. It's pretty full and Spinrite says it's > dying. The current drive is a Hitachi 11G, probably 4200 RPM. Of course I can > go bigger and faster, but should I? I just read a review at THG, which lavished > praise on the new 7200 RPM Hitachi, and says faster isn't a problem with power > consumption. But I'm concerned about heat. I leave my computer running almost > 24/7. It's been dead reliable so far, and I don't want to mess with it. I know > others have had overheating problems after putting faster drives in older > machines. Noise is an issue too -- I like my computer to be as quiet as > possible. It's one reason I chose the T20 initially. Any thoughts? > > Matt O. > > Matt: Let me see, it is a faster drive, and consumes less power. I would venture to say that heat will be less of a problem. Heat output is related to the power consumed times the efficiency of the motor. Noting that the drive is using less power, and turning faster it is very likely the motor is more efficient or at least as efficient, and the fact that the total power consumed is lower leads me to that conclusion.
richjMatt O'Toole wrote: > I need a new drive for my old T20. It's pretty full and Spinrite > says it's dying. The current drive is a Hitachi 11G, probably 4200 > RPM. Of course I can go bigger and faster, but should I? I just > read a review at THG, which lavished praise on the new 7200 RPM > Hitachi, and says faster isn't a problem with power consumption. But > I'm concerned about heat. I leave my computer running almost 24/7. > It's been dead reliable so far, and I don't want to mess with it. I > know others have had overheating problems after putting faster drives > in older machines. Noise is an issue too -- I like my computer to be > as quiet as possible. It's one reason I chose the T20 initially. > Any thoughts? I have several T21s, a T23, a T30 and several T40s all running with Hitachi 7K60s. They're all dead silent and have no heating problems. Regards, James
James386RJ [Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:28:08 -0800]: >Let me see, it is a faster drive, and consumes less power. Not quite right. The 12G (Travelstar, anyway) is rated 500mA @ 5V, or 2.5 Watts. Current drives are almost always 1A or more at 5V. Or you could ignore HD labels and go by what Tom writes (o). -- 40th Floor - Software @ http://40th.com/ iPlay : the ultimate audio player for iPAQs mp3, ogg, mp4, m4a, aac, wav, play & record parametric eq, xfeed, reverb - all on a ppc
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JHEM wrote: > I have several T21s, a T23, a T30 and several T40s all running with > Hitachi 7K60s. > > They're all dead silent and have no heating problems. Thanks for the feedback. What are your operating conditions though? Netsurfing and wordprocessing for an hour or two at a time, or heavy use 24/7? Matt O.
<hel@40th.com> wrote in message news:PRJFd.2735$S11.2367@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... > RJ [Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:28:08 -0800]: > >Let me see, it is a faster drive, and consumes less power. > > Not quite right. The 12G (Travelstar, anyway) is rated 500mA @ 5V, > or 2.5 Watts. Current drives are almost always 1A or more at 5V. > Or you could ignore HD labels and go by what Tom writes (o). > He set the parameters. Garbage in, garbage out. It is not up to me to verify that the data is incorrect. The advice is valid though, and if he finds the data he supplied is incorrect there is enough information in the answer to figure out that there might me more heat generated. Rich
Matt O'Toole wrote: > JHEM wrote: > >> I have several T21s, a T23, a T30 and several T40s all running with >> Hitachi 7K60s. >> >> They're all dead silent and have no heating problems. > > Thanks for the feedback. What are your operating conditions though? > Netsurfing and wordprocessing for an hour or two at a time, or heavy > use 24/7? Among all of the machines, all of the above! Regards, James
"JHEM" <James@ESAD.SPAMMERS.thinkpads.com> wrote in message news:zpCFd.16766$F97.4512@trnddc06... > Matt O'Toole wrote: > > I need a new drive for my old T20. It's pretty full and Spinrite > > says it's dying. The current drive is a Hitachi 11G, probably 4200 > > RPM. Of course I can go bigger and faster, but should I? I just > > read a review at THG, which lavished praise on the new 7200 RPM > > Hitachi, and says faster isn't a problem with power consumption. But > > I'm concerned about heat. I leave my computer running almost 24/7. > > It's been dead reliable so far, and I don't want to mess with it. I > > know others have had overheating problems after putting faster drives > > in older machines. Noise is an issue too -- I like my computer to be > > as quiet as possible. It's one reason I chose the T20 initially. > > Any thoughts? > > I have several T21s, a T23, a T30 and several T40s all running with Hitachi > 7K60s. > > They're all dead silent and have no heating problems. > > Regards, > > James JHEM-- I put one of the 7200 RPM Hitachi disks in my Sony K25 and it's a little faster than the 4200 RPM Hitachi 60Gig that was already in, but it vibrates way too much, so that when the machine is running I can feel the vibration on the palmrest, either side, like a slight buzzy feel. I assume this is because it's 7200 RPM, so am getting ready to put the 4200RPM drive back in. The difference in speed is not huge in any case. Someone above said this might be a faulty drive or a bad installation. I'm thinking it might be the lighter construction of the Sony plastic and the way it installs (you have to screw these small L-shaped rails on the side of the drive, then screw those into the chassis.
fbx4Mr. Bart wrote: > > Someone above said this might be a faulty drive or a bad > installation. I'm thinking it might be the lighter construction of > the Sony plastic and the way it installs (you have to screw these > small L-shaped rails on the side of the drive, then screw those into > the chassis. I'm completely stumped as to the cause of the vibration or the lackluster response you found with the 7K60. That's completely at odds with my experience, especially in older systems where the machines have literally been renewed by the HD's greater speed and throughput. All I can say is that on the many machines I'm supporting that have the 7K60 HD installed, the fans are far noisier than the HDs and, in most instances, I can't hear the HD at all unless I'm actively listening for it. Regards, James
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Hi, A friend has asked me to fix their laptop. I'm no expert on these things so I've got a bit stuck on something that should be very easy. It needs a new hard drive (I found) but I can't remove the old one. I followed the instructions in the manual saying to remove the screws and then to let it gently slide out. But this hard drive is stuck solid. I don't think it's really the hard drive, the black bit of plastic that you pull on is firlmy attached on the opposite side to the screws. It's stuck on the sliver surround of the keyboard as if there's some other screw...
SOLUTION! IBM Hard Drive only recognized as 33GB hard drive, but is more >>>82.3GB
KEYWORDS: IBM Hard Drive 33GB 32.83GB 82.3GB FDisk Windows XP NTFS FAT32 work full capacity maximum limitation jumpers Hi everyone, I read a bunch of these newsgroups for the last couple days and have spent several hours trying to fix my problem with no luck. Finally after rereading some of the posts and rethinking the problem I have finally fixed my problem. So, Dust off that old hard drive and make it work! I did! Here was my problem: I got a new computer that has an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe with an Intel P4-3.0Ghz HT chip and 1 GB of DDRAM. It came with a new 115GB hard dr...
Just fitted a new hard drive on this Pavillion ze5700ea laptop
Hi, It's a 40Gb drive to replace the old 30Gb one. First off, I just put the drive in and put the XP installation disc in but it thought the HD was about 7Gb and wouldn't install anything on it. I went to the BIOS. The HD is set to Auto. This is a summary of the BIOS setting - Type: Auto LBA Format Total sectors 94918400 Max capacity 48598MB I changed to "User" to see what else was there - Type: User CHS Format Cylinders 14335 Heads 16 Sectors 63 Max capacity 7398MB then it listed the same LBA information. Why is the XP installation seeing the CHS format? Why is thi...
low cost replacement hard drive for IBM Thinkpad i1400 laptop
Hi Can anyone recommend a good UK supplier of used or refurbished laptop drives? My friends laptop drive is failing and I'm looking for a compatible replacement. I tried lime search and google but most suppliers dont have the lower capacity drives in stock. As I've been unable to find out the maximum size drive this laptop can use with I'd prefer to stick with the same size. So I'm looking for a supplier that has them available. Hope someone can help. Thanks for any info. BTW... This is the second IBM drive that has failed!! The original one was repla...
need help hooking up IBM hard drive fm HP laptop
Hi, This is a hd from a HP laptop. It has personal data on it that hasn't been backed up. I'm going to try to backup the data and then return the hd to HP. The HD in question is faulty, but it still spins, so I may have a shot at it. A friend swapped the replacement from HP with this one, and asked me to see if I could get his stuff off it, etc. The drive is an IBM travelstar 4200 RPM 40 gig ATA/IDE model: Ic25n040ATCS04-0 July 'o2 I never fooled with laptop stuff before so I'm kinda stuck here. I was hoping I could access it with a normal 40pin ide cable, and then us...
Installed new hard drive, OS X installer doesn't see hard drive when selecting "destination".
....but it does see it when I open Disk Utility. The hard drive doesn't show on the OS X installation step, "Select a destination volume where you want to install the Mac OS X software". Does the drive need to be initialized or something? Some info I found said that a message would come up telling me if it had to be initialized but that didn't happen. I see no option to initialize with the OS X installer disc. It's odd that the installer won't tell me what it needs before I can install on the new drive. Thanks! Jim G4 PowerBook in article 4671E5AF.F1447950...
Old 486 Laptop
I've been given an old 486 laptop and have put windows 95 ORS2 on it - but the system only saw the first 500MB or so if the hard drive - I thought Partition Magic would see the rest but it hasn't - there is an option that says LBA support above 512MB - it was disbaled now I've enbabled it but no difference. I seem to remember having the same problem with an old 486 desktop and a guy at a computer company made me a floppy disk that installed some kind of driver or something that allowed me to see bigger hard drives - but I can't remember what it was called. My drive...
HELP: Can't see 52GB on my new IBM 180GB Hard drive
I bought IBM Deskstar 180GXP hard drive and installed it as a slave drive. I finished formatting the new drive using Disk Management tool (Windows XP). Here, I can only see 128 GB of space instead of the 180 GB. I don't understand whats going on... When I ran IBM drive fitness tests, it showed 180 GB (infact 185.something GB). All the tests were successful. I don't know whats going on!! 50+GB is a substantial portion of total space. Can someone help? Also, I checked in the BIOS for the primary slave drive. It shows 132 GB there. Don't know if this would help figure out th...
Laptop died -- can I switch hard drives between laptops
I'm reasonably handy with computers but I'm kind of stymied on this one. I have a 5 year old Dell Inspiron with a Pentium III and Windows 2000. My laptop just decided to die on me. I'm pretty sure the hard drive is okay, as I replaced the hard drive less than 6 months ago. My question is, there's a lot of data I need to get off of my hard drive. If I take out the hard drive and stick it into another laptop with a Pentium M or a Pentium 4 (or even an AMD), what are the odds that the new laptop will boot up? If my idea above doesn't work, has anyone had experience ...
Having hard time retrieving Laptop hard drive data
I am trying to recover data from my laptop's hard drive. I took the hard drive out of the laptop and put it in one of those external hard drive boxes that connect to the USB port of a PC and within a few minutes the drive showed up including access to all the files inside the old hard drive. I started switching files around from one folder to another to prepare to burn them on DVD discs. Stupid mistake! I should have immediately copied the files from the old hard drive into the computer!!!!! Within about 30 minutes of switching files around, suddenly that particular hard drive disapeare...
can I use desktop hard drive as external laptop drive?
Hi. My mom gave me her old compaq presario 1200 because my desktop motherboard burnt out and I couldn't afford to fix it. The hard drive in my laptop is very small, and all of my old files are still on the hard drive from my desktop, which still is in good condition. Is there a way to connect the old hard drive (it's an internal drive)to my laptop? thanks, Kristie yes, get an external drive box for about $40, they make in USB or FWire connection, or both. I did it, works great. -- Dennis Savatski "Kristie" <kjd183@psu.edu> wrote in message news:8c9b4541.0401221503...
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