[ltp] Upgrade hard drive

[James Knott]

Daniel Castro wrote:
>
> 2009/2/28 James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com
> <mailto:james.knott@rogers.com>>
>
>     Theodore Tso wrote:
>     > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:28:45PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
>     >
>     >> I'm considering upgrading the hard drive in my ThinkPad R31.  It
>     >> currently has a 40 GB drive, which I'm finding a bit tight now
>     .  Any
>     >> brand recommendations?  I see sizes range from about 80 - 320 GB .
>     >>
>     >
>     > I've always liked the Seagate Momentus 7200.x series.  At the moment
>     > the Seagate Momentus 7200.4 has been released (although it seems
>     to be
>     > backordered everywhere I looked).  The Seagate Momenutus 7200.3 are
>     > therefore quite cheap ATM, and have a max capacity of 320 GB.  (The
>     > 7200.4 have a max capacity of 500 GB).
>     >
>     > The reason why I like the Seagate Momentus is that they have the
>     > option of coming with a G force sensor.  This allows the disk to
>     > protect itself automatically from shocks, without having to make the
>     > OS wake up the CPU 30 times a second to check on the
>     accelerometer ---
>     > which does a real number of power utilization and hence battery
>     life.
>     >
>     > You need to make sure to get the version with the G force sensor.
>     > These tend to be the models that have "ASG" as a substring of their
>     > model number instead of just "AS".  Typically you pay an extra 5
>     bucks
>     > for the feature, which is definitely worth it.
>     >
>     >                                               - Ted
>     >
>     Hmmm... I don't see that line at the local computer store. They have a
>     couple of Seagate 5400.3 drives, one 120 G and the other 160. Both are
>     5400. I assume the 7200 RPM drives are harder on the battery.
>
> they may be, but speed improves performance significantly! slow hard
> drives can be a serious bottle-neck some times...

Are there any 7200 RPM 2.5" IDE drives?  All the IDE drives I've found
so far are 5400.  The 7200s all appear to be SATA.

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