Need a recomendation for a new laptop hard drive

[Swanny]

Hello all,

I'm the proud owner of a dead IBM Travelstar 30GN hard disk from my Toshiba Tecra 8200. I think I'd rather replace the drive for now and not the whole laptop. I need some recommendations on good drives. Also, I'd like to know how a 5400RPM drive would compare to mine in performance and power consumption. I've looked at some specs, but I want to know how it really impacts battery life.

Here are the specs of my current drive. It's the 20Gb model.

I'd like to keep the price of the new drive under $100. Capacity around 20 or 30 gigs would be good.


Thanks,
Swan

 

[zerogear]

I suggest the Hitachi 7K60 or 5K80.l

 

[dolph]

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[Dark54555]

don't get a toshiba drive.

 

[GnomeCop]

the seagate 5400 rpm Momentus HD if you arent going to spend the cash on a 7200 rpm one.

The seagate is nice and quiet, low power usage too.

 

[Swanny]

Actually I bought a Hitachi 5K80. It should be arriving today. I'll let you know how I like it when I get the system up again.

 

[voodle]

Originally posted by: Dark54555
don't get a toshiba drive.

Why not? My only reason for asking this is that I just got a 40gig 4200 toshiba drive for cheap. I mean, yeah my 6022GAX failed and almost took all my files with it, and the company I bought it from eventually just refunded me my money since toshiba wouldn't/couldn't fix it? But uh... that money was really handy.
Do toshiba drives break a lot or was I just unlucky/careless? This drive had been dropped a couple of times, and it was the drive motor that went dodgy.

 

[Dark54555]

Originally posted by: voodle

Originally posted by: Dark54555
don't get a toshiba drive.

Why not? My only reason for asking this is that I just got a 40gig 4200 toshiba drive for cheap. I mean, yeah my 6022GAX failed and almost took all my files with it, and the company I bought it from eventually just refunded me my money since toshiba wouldn't/couldn't fix it? But uh... that money was really handy.
Do toshiba drives break a lot or was I just unlucky/careless? This drive had been dropped a couple of times, and it was the drive motor that went dodgy.

mine, brand new in a brand new toshiba system, broke in under 9 months. their drives used to be a lot better than the more recent ones, which seem to die...quickly.

 

[dolph]

not sure if it was due to hardware (actually not sure at all, and google didn't reveal answers), but my toshiba drive had a corrupt partition table after a little over a year, now all my data's gone. boo.