Comments on: Best laptop HD ever http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2003/12/06/best-laptop-hd-ever/ Robert Accettura's Personal Blog on Web Development and Tech Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:14:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: David S. http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2003/12/06/best-laptop-hd-ever/#comment-831 David S. Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2003/12/06/best-laptop-hd-ever/#comment-831 I must agree with your comments about the new Travelstar 7K60...I bought one a copule of weeks ago (after finding out about it from your post! They were the cheapest at www.zipzoomfly.com ( <a href="http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=100519">http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=100519</a> formerly googlegear.com by the way) where I got mine with free 2-day shipping for $232 (it's gone up to $266 now but same shipping deal), and I have since reinstalled XP Pro from scratch and I see a boot time of right around 20 seconds including login time. I don't have any extra internal bays on my Dell Inspiron 1100, but I put my old drive (a 30GB drive that I'm pretty sure is a 4200RPM) in a USB 2.0 2.5" HDD case ( <a href="http://store.yahoo.com/meritline/usb-enclosure-hard-drive-external-1.html">http://store.yahoo.com/meritline/usb-enclosure-hard-drive-external-1.html</a> ) along with my old 5400 RPM 40GB Travelstar that I upgraded my old Dell Latitude CPxH with before its motherboard died, so I have two nice external hard drvies for storage and a nice new internal, and emptier pockets (thanks to your blog :-) One of the things I really like besides the quietness and coolness (in two ways!) that you mentioned, is that the power drain is about equal to my old drive. Basically the new smaller technology in this drive causes it to use less power to spin so even though it's a higher-capacity drive with higher RPMs the power drain is almost identical (sometimes slightly higher but not by a noticeable margin) to the older, smaller, slower drives (see Tom's Hardware Guide benchmark, which I don't have a link to right now). I must agree with your comments about the new Travelstar 7K60…I bought one a copule of weeks ago (after finding out about it from your post! They were the cheapest at http://www.zipzoomfly.com ( http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/.....ode=100519 formerly googlegear.com by the way) where I got mine with free 2-day shipping for $232 (it’s gone up to $266 now but same shipping deal), and I have since reinstalled XP Pro from scratch and I see a boot time of right around 20 seconds including login time.

I don’t have any extra internal bays on my Dell Inspiron 1100, but I put my old drive (a 30GB drive that I’m pretty sure is a 4200RPM) in a USB 2.0 2.5″ HDD case ( http://store.yahoo.com/meritli.....nal-1.html ) along with my old 5400 RPM 40GB Travelstar that I upgraded my old Dell Latitude CPxH with before its motherboard died, so I have two nice external hard drvies for storage and a nice new internal, and emptier pockets (thanks to your blog :-)
One of the things I really like besides the quietness and coolness (in two ways!) that you mentioned, is that the power drain is about equal to my old drive. Basically the new smaller technology in this drive causes it to use less power to spin so even though it’s a higher-capacity drive with higher RPMs the power drain is almost identical (sometimes slightly higher but not by a noticeable margin) to the older, smaller, slower drives (see Tom’s Hardware Guide benchmark, which I don’t have a link to right now).

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