I just got this HP zv5160us SPECS
it had a dead hard drive so I went to newegg and got a HITACHI Travelstar 7K100 HTS721060G9AT00 (0A25022) 60GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache ATA-6 Notebook Hard Drive - OEM
after about 5-10 seconds after the hard drive activity light stops blinking, from most likely the page file, the drive parks its self. at first I didn't think much of it but after using the laptop for a few days now it's making me insane, like a leaky fauset. I went to my power settings and turned off the hard drive idle timer but it was set to 30 a half hour anyways. its like almost everything I so, the most simplest things will freeze up while you wait for the hard drive to spin up, and yes I can hear the thing speed up.
just now I selected a sentance in this post I'm typing and when I right clicked on the selected text the popupmenu would now show while at the same time the hdd blue light was solid for several seconds while I heard the soft highpitch whind up.
This all, however, is not new to me. my previous latptop, an old P3 thats totally dead now: it too did the same thing. although it took a bit longer before the hdd went to sleep, and it would make a loud double click while it turned back on.
Ironically, my desktop computer running Vista ultimate NEVER sleep. i can put the hard drive idle time to 5 minutes and it will blink all day long while i'm afk, I can never figure out why that is and for fear my expensive rapture hard drives (raid 0) will wear out prematurely i now have to turn the computer off. When it ran XP I used to leave the desktop on 24/7 because the hard drive would shut down.
still now through typing I keep hearing this hard drive click back on and that in its self can get annoying. supposedly the OS is storring what I write in the page file. the hdd will stay off when I go afk and I dont have any other applications such as IRC or AIM writting log files..
off topic rant below if youre bored
This laptop is very nice to me, my last one was such a POS from the day I got it, no matter what wireless i plugged into it the thing wireless would drop the connect and need to be unplugged and plugged back in every other minute, really unusable for what I needed.
I can't stand the feel of anything less than 2.8GHZ. My friend has a p4 1.7 ghz machine and that 1.1ghz difference is pathetically unbearable. and I feel much more comfortable programming on this than my desktop. I can go out side on these nice days instead of being down in my dungeon doing my work.
I was considering selling my desktop since I don't play games anymore and using this as my one and only machine. but I am seriously not considering it anymore since the lag and the constant click start noise is seriously distracting me from my work. it sounds extremely foolishly picky I know, but I spent A LOT of money on my desktop, like $500 on the fastest hard drives you can buy just so I can get instant reaction time. I decided that forfitting that is worth it. But this is ridiculous, the fact that this hitachi gets 36mb/sec average transfer does not bother me since as much as the system FREEZING on basic operations like clicking a HYPERLINK
its funny how this 4 year old laptop gets the same benchmark score on single threaded applications as my just upgraded 2 month old desktop. I got a new motherboard and cpu for it actually. I went from an athlong xp 3800+ socket 939 (over clocked to a stable 2.61ghz, ran a bit warm!), sold it for the price of a msi sli am2 mobo, 2 gigs performnce DDR2 800 and athlon xp 2700+ 1.9ghz 45nm! (overclocked to 2.81GHz, mem now 633mhz). The dual core is the only benefit otherwise the benchmark scores are the exact same speed as this laptop p4 2.8ghz DDR 333mhz which i found shocking
it had a dead hard drive so I went to newegg and got a HITACHI Travelstar 7K100 HTS721060G9AT00 (0A25022) 60GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache ATA-6 Notebook Hard Drive - OEM
after about 5-10 seconds after the hard drive activity light stops blinking, from most likely the page file, the drive parks its self. at first I didn't think much of it but after using the laptop for a few days now it's making me insane, like a leaky fauset. I went to my power settings and turned off the hard drive idle timer but it was set to 30 a half hour anyways. its like almost everything I so, the most simplest things will freeze up while you wait for the hard drive to spin up, and yes I can hear the thing speed up.
just now I selected a sentance in this post I'm typing and when I right clicked on the selected text the popupmenu would now show while at the same time the hdd blue light was solid for several seconds while I heard the soft highpitch whind up.
This all, however, is not new to me. my previous latptop, an old P3 thats totally dead now: it too did the same thing. although it took a bit longer before the hdd went to sleep, and it would make a loud double click while it turned back on.
Ironically, my desktop computer running Vista ultimate NEVER sleep. i can put the hard drive idle time to 5 minutes and it will blink all day long while i'm afk, I can never figure out why that is and for fear my expensive rapture hard drives (raid 0) will wear out prematurely i now have to turn the computer off. When it ran XP I used to leave the desktop on 24/7 because the hard drive would shut down.
still now through typing I keep hearing this hard drive click back on and that in its self can get annoying. supposedly the OS is storring what I write in the page file. the hdd will stay off when I go afk and I dont have any other applications such as IRC or AIM writting log files..
off topic rant below if youre bored
This laptop is very nice to me, my last one was such a POS from the day I got it, no matter what wireless i plugged into it the thing wireless would drop the connect and need to be unplugged and plugged back in every other minute, really unusable for what I needed.
I can't stand the feel of anything less than 2.8GHZ. My friend has a p4 1.7 ghz machine and that 1.1ghz difference is pathetically unbearable. and I feel much more comfortable programming on this than my desktop. I can go out side on these nice days instead of being down in my dungeon doing my work.
I was considering selling my desktop since I don't play games anymore and using this as my one and only machine. but I am seriously not considering it anymore since the lag and the constant click start noise is seriously distracting me from my work. it sounds extremely foolishly picky I know, but I spent A LOT of money on my desktop, like $500 on the fastest hard drives you can buy just so I can get instant reaction time. I decided that forfitting that is worth it. But this is ridiculous, the fact that this hitachi gets 36mb/sec average transfer does not bother me since as much as the system FREEZING on basic operations like clicking a HYPERLINK
its funny how this 4 year old laptop gets the same benchmark score on single threaded applications as my just upgraded 2 month old desktop. I got a new motherboard and cpu for it actually. I went from an athlong xp 3800+ socket 939 (over clocked to a stable 2.61ghz, ran a bit warm!), sold it for the price of a msi sli am2 mobo, 2 gigs performnce DDR2 800 and athlon xp 2700+ 1.9ghz 45nm! (overclocked to 2.81GHz, mem now 633mhz). The dual core is the only benefit otherwise the benchmark scores are the exact same speed as this laptop p4 2.8ghz DDR 333mhz which i found shocking
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