laptop hard drives

[Mr. Lennon]

anyone know where I can pick up a 5400 rpm or maybe even a 7200 rpm hard drive for my notebook? How do I find out what size the hard drive is? I remember someone posting a site awhile ago and they had some very cheap notebook hd's.

 

[cy7878]

have you looked at Basoncomputers.com?

 

[airfoil]

Link

 

[dnuggett]

Newegg has some decent deals, although a trip to the FS/FT forums may yield a used one at a great price.

 

[corkyg]

I just ordered a Hitachi 7200 RPM, 60 GB Travelstar - $190 with shipping. Can't beat that! And that was from NewEgg just about 30 minutes ago.

 

[CombatChuk]

Originally posted by: corky-g
I just ordered a Hitachi 7200 RPM, 60 GB Travelstar - $190 with shipping. Can't beat that! And that was from NewEgg just about 30 minutes ago.

Tell me how it works out for you...I'm tempted to replace the 40GB drive in my thinkpad with 7200RPM beast...

 

[Mr. Lennon]

Is this correct?

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-149-026&depa=0

it says that the drive has 16mb buffer on it, but I thought only raptors had that?

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: CombatChuk

Originally posted by: corky-g
I just ordered a Hitachi 7200 RPM, 60 GB Travelstar - $190 with shipping. Can't beat that! And that was from NewEgg just about 30 minutes ago.

Tell me how it works out for you...I'm tempted to replace the 40GB drive in my thinkpad with 7200RPM beast...

This is my second one - I have already been using one for a month - it works out fine. It is faster and of course, bigger. I replaced a 40 GB 5400 Toshiba w/8MB buffer. I always have two with one fully being the duplicate of the other. Once cloned, it resides in my desk drawer in a safe place. That way I have a 100% backup drive ready to go. I am getting the second one because the first one worked so well.

 

[jai6638]

u can get the Hitachi 7200 RPM, 60 GB Travelstar for US $180.50 with free ups 2day shipping www.zipzoomfly.com.. great place for buying stufff ( great service too )


cheers

 

[Peetoeng]

check dell.com too. sometimes they have 10-15% discount on peripherals.