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100GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm versus 160GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400rpm amandaf37 09-02-2007
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Posted by Barry Watzman on September 3, 2007, 1:00 pm
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 Yes; if you have a laptop that will get past the barrier at 137GB (e.g.
that supports 48-bit LBA), it will recognize drives up to at least 500GB
or so (unless the manufacturer put code in the bios explicitly for the
purpose of disallowing such drives .... a situation that I have never seen).


amandaf37@gmail.com wrote:
>> Yes. No problem. Any size (GB) and any rotational speed.
>
> But would the system recognize all space, say if I put a 16oGB (7200
> rpm) or 320 GB (7200 rpm)?
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> amanda...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> The one I am looking at is 100GB (7200 rpm) and 160GB (5400 rpm).
>>> If I take 100GB (7200 rpm) option and when it crashed, I wonder
>>> whether I can put 160 GB (7200 rpm).- Hide quoted text -
>> - Show quoted text -
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Posted by amandaf37 on September 5, 2007, 9:25 am
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> Yes; if you have a laptop that will get past the barrier at 137GB (e.g.
> that supports 48-bit LBA),

Thanks for this info. I googled it and understand more.

>it will recognize drives up to at least 500GB
> or so (unless the manufacturer put code in the bios explicitly for the
> purpose of disallowing such drives .... a situation that I have never seen).

That's what the sale person said. I ended up opting for 100GB (7200
rpm) at the slae person's suggestion.

BTW, the sale person also said it should take 500GB but when I asked
specifically later what's the manufacturer info on the largest drive
it can take, he said, "that info is not given".

>>
>
> amanda...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> Yes. No problem. Any size (GB) and any rotational speed.
>
> > But would the system recognize all space, say if I put a 16oGB (7200
> > rpm) or 320 GB (7200 rpm)?
>
> >> amanda...@gmail.com wrote:
> >>> The one I am looking at is 100GB (7200 rpm) and 160GB (5400 rpm).
> >>> If I take 100GB (7200 rpm) option and when it crashed, I wonder
> >>> whether I can put 160 GB (7200 rpm).- Hide quoted text -
> >> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -



Posted by Lars on September 5, 2007, 3:23 pm
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On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:25:53 -0000, amandaf37@gmail.com wrote:

>That's what the sale person said. I ended up opting for 100GB
>(7200 rpm) at the sale person's suggestion.

Good advice and good choice! I hope and assume it is a Hitachi.
I have one of those and I am very pleased with it.

100 GB is still a lot of space.


(Originally these drives where made by IBM itself. Later they sold the
whole process to Hitachi. Altogether I think I have a dozen
Deskstar/Travelstar drives. Some of these are 7 or 8 years old, and I
have never had a problem with any of them.)



Lars
Stockholm

Posted by amandaf37 on September 5, 2007, 6:47 pm
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> On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:25:53 -0000, amanda...@gmail.com wrote:
> >That's what the sale person said. I ended up opting for 100GB
> >(7200 rpm) at the sale person's suggestion.
>
> Good advice and good choice! I hope and assume it is a Hitachi.
> I have one of those and I am very pleased with it.

Good to hear that. Btw, I thought hitachi is not considered as good as
maxtor (for 3.5") but obviously not anymore, right.
>
> 100 GB is still a lot of space.

Yes.

>
> (Originally these drives where made by IBM itself. Later they sold the
> whole process to Hitachi. Altogether I think I have a dozen
> Deskstar/Travelstar drives. Some of these are 7 or 8 years old, and I
> have never had a problem with any of them.)
>
> Lars
> Stockholm



Posted by BillW50 on September 24, 2007, 11:27 am
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Lars typed on Wednesday, September 05, 2007 14:23:
> On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:25:53 -0000, amandaf37@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> That's what the sale person said. I ended up opting for 100GB
>> (7200 rpm) at the sale person's suggestion.
>
> Good advice and good choice! I hope and assume it is a Hitachi.
> I have one of those and I am very pleased with it.
>
> 100 GB is still a lot of space.
>
> (Originally these drives where made by IBM itself. Later they sold the
> whole process to Hitachi. Altogether I think I have a dozen
> Deskstar/Travelstar drives. Some of these are 7 or 8 years old, and I
> have never had a problem with any of them.)
>
> Lars
> Stockholm

I wish I could say 100GB is a lot. :-( As I record a lot of TV programs
from time to time either from my laptop or desktop. And I could use a
50TB hard drive actually.

--
Bill


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