Laptop Hard drives

[GT98]

I'm thinking about upgrading my Dell 600M laptop HDD to a 7200 RPM drive. I see that Hitiachi is has one from newegg for $113 bucks, but I'm leary of them since they didnt take over IBM HHD busniess?

Anyone else out there make 7200 RPM drives for laptops?

[Wombat]

The Hitachi laptop drives are good from what I hear.

[J1NG]

I got one for my brother a few months ago. No problems, and good performance too. Also, quite silent.

J1NG

[ayoub_ibrahim]

no problems here with my 7k60 over the last nine months.

[Jammrock]

Originally posted by Wombat
The Hitachi laptop drives are good from what I hear.

My work got a batch of them that were blowing up left and right. It was so bad that Dell stopped using them in subsquent models and refurbs we've been getting back from them. All the new drives are Fujitsu and Seagate.

I've personally replaced over 4 bad Hitachi laptop hard drives in the past 6 months. Most techs in my company have as well.

[Liquid Snake]

Yes I think Dell got a bad batch too. A few people I know with Dell laptops and the 60GB 7200RPM Hitachi drive have had HD failures. My IBM has the same HD but so far no problems.

[Fluff]

They are really quick. There are two versions afaik

7K60 and E7K60

Toshiba do a drive 16mb cache 5400rpm

[xortam]

Originally posted by ayoub_ibrahim
no problems here with my 7k60 over the last nine months.

Ditto. I have had mine running daily since last June in my teeny pocket-sized 2.5" external box ... no problems.

[PAugustin]

the Hitachi 7K60 is currently the best laptop hard drive on the market. It is fast and reliable.

As for the two versions :

7K60 is the regular laptop HDD
E7K60 is supposedly aimed at blade servers as iti is "designed" to run 24/7 and comes with AAM deactivated. It also exists in both 40 and 60GB.

I bought a 40GB E7K60 and enabled AAM with Hitachi Feature Tool. So it's exactly the same as the 7K60.