[ltp] Replacement Drive for T30?

[Alejandro Bonilla]

|Alejandro Bonilla said:
|> The worst thing that can happen to me is to get a sucky
|laptop like my
|> Dell that the HDD would do 43C easily...
|>
|> It sucks, to have an HDD that will burn your palm. Really be carefull
|> with this. I wouldn't go cheap with this one....
|>
|> I was discussing with some friend about the HD that IBM uses and they
|> simply now use a common brand, like Fujitsu or so, but the
|point is that
|> Fujitsu makes a special model or quality for IBM, dude, this
|is why We
|> pay $2K for an IBM and $980 for a Dell.
|>
|> My Dell would do 43C, and the IBM would hardly reach 34C. Big
|> Difference. This is why I switched.
|
|Hmm, that's an interesting thought. From looking at IBM's
|drive specs [1]
|and the specs for the "IBM Hitachi" drive I just ordered [2] the *only*
|difference that I could see is the operating temperature description.
|
|  IBM:     "Maximum Operating Temperature  35 C"
|  Hitachi: "Operating Ambient temperature: 5ø to 55ø C"

I still think that the IBM drive's have a really good temperature management
or they simply don't heat up that much.

You are confusing me a little bit. Normally the IBM HD's are into smaller
systems, and now they are using (ok) Hitachi drives  that still look like
have a better quality than normall HD's out there. Hey, it could be that the
IBM has a very good ventilation system, it could be anything. But a T40 I
used to use a lot and my T42 never or barely go over 38C, probably only when
I'm building my kernel it might reach 40C, but these are exceptions.

Which BTW laptop_mode is a great tool.

|
|Although it's not clear if these temperatures indicate how hot
|the drive
|gets normally or how hot it gets due to environmental
|influence. Meaning
|does it reach 55 C because I'm compiling GNOME or because I put the
|computer in an oven?

??? 55C, I think it means the maximum or toast temperature. It probably
would lock up if it reaches that temperature.

|
|I think the two descriptions may have different meanings in this case
|becasue *every* mobile drive I looked at on zipzoomfly.com

I would buy memory, CPU, media, bla bla bla, from ZipZoomFly, but the HD is
very important, after all, IBM also has a higher standard with Enterprise so
that Biz people don't have to replace their hd every 8 months and loose half
of their time/job and start complaining about it.

Q U A L I T Y!

|listed 5-55 C
|as "operating" temperature.
|
|Mike
|