Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Hard Drive

I need suggestions on how and where to purchase a hard drive.

4 comments:

  1. Search your laptop in google to find the specs of it, and figure out what kind of hard drive is in it. Then search newegg.com, tigerdirect.com, and buy.com. One of them will most likely have a deal for the one you need.

    It is most likely a 3.5 inch and you don't want anything lower than 7200 rpm(5200 is 2/3 the speed, but runs hotter and takes more power).

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  2. Okey-Dokey

    I went ahead and asked Micheal Dell what I had in my computer and he said:

    "part # GC681," and then "HD,40G,9.5,5.4K,SMSNG,MGMA"

    I asked him if HD meant hard drive, 40G meant 40 Gigabytes, 5.4K meant 54000 rotations per minute, and smsng meant Samsung, but he walked away. Furthermore, what does this tell me about the length of the hard drive is it 9.5 millimeters?

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  3. I was looking into this the other day. Apparently Dell used to be real shitty about replacing parts. That shouldn't matter anymore though, but one more reason in the future to avoid dell.

    All you really need to know about it size(9.5 or whatever that is in inches), connectivity(SATA or something else I can't remember, though it is probably SATA), and rpms. Like I said, the industry norm is 5400, but 7200 is about 1/3 faster, which would be noticeable with large file transfers.

    If you tell me the size you want, I can look for one for you.

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  4. I was thinking somewhere in the ballpark of 100 GB and 7K RPMs. I just need at least 80 GB or I don't see the point in upgrading.

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