awesome IBM travelstar 30GN notebook drive!

[CivilRightsLawyer]

hi folks:

I just upgraded my notebook HD to the new IBM travelstar 30GN 2.5 9mm hd. this is an extremely quiet notebook drive (compared to the loud, whizzing, whining, buzzing, humming Fujitsu that came standard with my Toshiba 3000).

if anyone wants a stealth-like notebook drive,that produces little to no sound (even during heavy read/write access), this is the way to go. higher capacity features 5400rpm.

 

[Muadib]

Congrats, but could you change that from 30GN to 30 GB? I thought this was some new tech.😱

 

[CivilRightsLawyer]

actually, the "30 GN" is the model #,though the 30GN comes in 20g and 30g models.

 

[Muadib]

Ohhhhhh.😱

 

[Apex]

The higher capacity drives are the 32GH and 48GH, a different line which comes in the 12.5mm height. I'm currently on a 48GH, and they're better than the 32GH's (quieter and faster). Very silent as well (I've used the 30GN as well). The 40GN was just released (40gb, 9.5mm, 4200rpm) as well as the 60GH (60gb, 12.5mm, 5400rpm).

 

[XMan]

When you buy a new notebook HD, is there any provision for Ghosting the old data over to the new drive? Do they provide an external adaptor cable or anything to copy from new to old?

 

[Apex]

No, they usually do not. I've ghosted using Compaq's Multibay HD adaptor, as well as a few other ways. There's usually no easy solution provided.

 

[corkyg]

When you buy a new notebook HD, is there any provision for Ghosting the old data over to the new drive?

There are several ways to do that. The cheapest is to get a couple of adapters that let you run 2.5" drives in your regular computer. Then you can use whatever program turns your crank for cloning (Ghost is Norton's imaging software - I prefer PQ's DriveCopy for such direct operations.)

My current laptop has a modular floppy drive that accepts a module with a 2nd HDD. That is what I use . . . boot with a DriveCopy 4.0 CD and do a drive-to-drive cloning . . . even with a cherry drive. No FDISK, no formatting.

Another way is by a USB or PCMCIA attachment (Bullet Drive Express or something similar) and doing a fully copying of one drive to another.

But, I don't see any of those things coming with a new HDD.

 

[jschuk]

CMS peripherals gives you an option of buying a kit that includes a PCMICA adapter when you buy a new HDD. Their HDD's also come with the HDD case for your laptop. The one PCMCIA adapter I saw seemed to be flimsy, probably only good for about a dozen uses before something would break. At work, we use a 2nd HDD adapter for ghosting. Actually, I rigged the ghosting laptop to have two IDE cables coming out the unit so any size drive can be hooked up to the source and destination channels.