[ltp] New hard drive for T61

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:53:24 +0100
Florian Manschwetus <florianmanschwetus@gmx.de> dijo:

> Am 25.10.2009 18:00, schrieb John Jason Jordan:
> > I can't find the 7K500; only the 7K320. The reviews on the 7K320 seem
> > pretty good - not as many failures as the Seagate. And 320 GB is all I
> > need anyway.
> >
> > How is the 7K320 for speed?

> Great, personally I use the previous revision, 7k200, in my T60 a
> unbelievable boost compared with the original 5k100.
> My father uses the 7k320 in his T61 same result.

Thanks for the information. At the moment the 7k320 is at the top of my
list.

The Seagates seem to have a pretty bad failure rate. And it's not that
they're dead on arrival - that would be bad, but tolerable, because you
could just return it before any damage was done to your data. The
failures are all after a couple of weeks to a couple of months, and
there is no advance warning - no funny noises, odd behavior, or
anything. Lots of reports of lost data. I always do backups, but the
consumer complaints about the Seagates leave me unimpressed.