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    Need advice on upgrading an ASUS A6R hard disk to an (80 or 100GB) Seagate Momentus

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Freakish, Oct 25, 2007.

  1. Freakish

    Freakish Notebook Geek

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    I have an ASUS A6R notebook with a Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 Hard Disk. I am planning on upgrading to an 80 or 100GB Seagate Momentus for more disk space and faster Windows and program bootup, and I will then use my Hitachi hard disk as an external backup drive by putting it in an enclosure and I will clone its contents to the new one using XXClone. I am wondering if the Seagate Momentus is compatible with my notebook.

    Also, if I install a higher RPM hard disk, will my battery life be significantly lowered or are the power consumption of these hard drives just about the same? I don't really mind a 10-20 mins. battery time loss.

    The specs of my current hard disk, Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 are:

    Capacity RPM Interface
    60 5400 Parallel-ATA

    Configuration Parallel-ATA

    Interface ATA-6

    Performance
    Data buffer (MB) 8
    Rotational speed (RPM) 5400
    Latency average (ms) 5.5
    Media transfer rate (Mbits/sec, max) 493
    Interface transfer rate (MB/sec, max) 100 Ultra DMA mode-5 150
    16.6 PIO mode-4
    Seek time (typical) Average (ms) 12
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    The specs of my hard disk (from the notebook manual):
    The high speed transfer modes supported are UltraATA/100 up to 100MB/sec and
    PIO mode 4 up to 16.6MB/sec. The Notebook PC comes with a removable 2.5” (6.35cm) wide and .374”
    (.95cm) high UltraATA/100/66 IDE hard disk drive with current capacities up to 80GB. Current IDE hard
    drives support S.M.A.R.T. (Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology) to detect hard disk errors or
    failures before they happen.

    Hitachi Travelstar 5K100: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/5k100/5k100.htm )
    Seagate Momentus: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/laptops/momentus/momentus_7200.1/
     
    Freakish, Oct 25, 2007
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  2. CenA

    CenA Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a seagate momentus 4200.2 in my A6R and it is working perfectly. you should be fine with that seagate
     
    CenA, Oct 25, 2007
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  3. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    As long as you stick with parallel ATA, you should be fine.

    7200 from 5400 is an increase in performance, but not very large. Similarly, the battery life will not drop so much. There will also be some increase in HDD temps.
     
    E.B.E., Oct 25, 2007
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