[ltp] Recommendation for new disk drive

[Chris Penn]

lol, true, probably wont work on older machines.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Michael Gaber<Michael.Gaber@gmx.net> wrote=
:
> meeep, we're talking about PATA here ;)
>
> Am 17.07.2009 21:01, schrieb Chris Penn:
>>
>> How bout =A0a Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive 160gb. =A0Twice
>> the speed and half the power of a 7200rpm drive.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Michael Gaber<Michael.Gaber@gmx.net>
>> =A0wrote:
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>>> Am 17.07.2009 16:24, schrieb Joerg Bruehe:
>>>>
>>>> Michael,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> thanks for your reply:
>>>>
>>>> Michael Gaber wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 17.07.2009 15:11, schrieb Joerg Bruehe:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear readers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I need to get a bigger disk for my R51 (parallel connection).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [[...]]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ThinkWiki recommends "Seagate Momentus" which my preferred local
>>>>>> dealer
>>>>>> doesn't carry; he stocks Samsung and Western Digital, recommends the
>>>>>> latter.
>>>>>> [[...]]
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi.
>>>>>
>>>>> my experience says: go for a hitachi 7200 rpm drive
>>>>
>>>> 1) Doesn't 7200 rpm mean a higher power consumption?
>>>> =A0 =A0It is rare that I need a long battery time, but I felt that les=
s
>>>> power usage is always good (less heat, ...).
>>>>
>>>> Hitachi lists 1.8 (0.8) W for the 5400 rpm disk in RW (idle) mode
>>>> versus 2.0 (1.8) W for the 7200 rpm disks ("enhanced availability" or
>>>> "standard").
>>>> Samsung gives 2.0 (0.6) W, Western Digital 2.5 (0.85) W, and Seagate 2=
.0
>>>> (0.8) W for their 5400 rpm drives,
>>>> so it seems quite consistent that the 5400 rpm drives consume less pow=
er
>>>> most of the time (idle) than the 7200 rpm ones.
>>>>
>>>> Of course, 7200 rpm has lower latency (4.2 ms) than 5400 rpm (5.5 ms),
>>>> I still need to make up my mind how important that is for me.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2) Do you recommend it because you have good experiences with Hitachi,
>>>> =A0 =A0or do you also have less good ones with other manufacturers?
>>>
>>> well, i had a samsung replaced 3!!! times because of reallocated sector=
s
>>> in
>>> the warranty period and a 2 seagates dieing propably because of
>>> start/stop
>>> count which didn't happen with the hitachi in my old R50p or the one in
>>> my
>>> new T60
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> J=F6rg
>>>>
>>>
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