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    Which SATA drive?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by RayD71, Oct 21, 2009.

  1. RayD71

    RayD71 Notebook Geek

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    Does anyone know if the harddrive that shipped with the G50Vm-x1 (Last year's Best Buy model) is SATA2? I plan on replacing the first drive and adding a second drive into it and I'm don't know if I should be getting SATA or SATA2 or if it even matters.
     
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  2. ClearSkies

    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    No one has shipped a SATA1 drive for several years in a manufactured system - everything is SATA2 (3.0Gb/s). A few netbooks are still using them, as there is a slight reduction in power requirements for -1 drives.

    You can replace with either one (-2 is more plentiful at major retailers, Newegg etc). There is no real-world performance difference between the specs 1v2, as no mechanical drive comes even close to saturating the -1interface. SSDs are another matter, but it doesn't sound like that's what you're asking.
     
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  3. Ra1den

    Ra1den Notebook Consultant

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    I post it here since no one is answering me in the hard forum .. i'm planning to get another 320 GB WD HDD model WD3200BEVT, what do you think about quality and performance of this one ? is compatible with my G51VX-RX05 and there is another extra slot for it right ?
     
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  4. goggles

    goggles Notebook Geek

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    aka. WD 320GB ScorpioBlack, is probably the best laptop HDD out there. I have one in my laptop, thinking of maybe having a second one in the 2nd HDD slot, but to be honest, when you have like 4TB+ of storage space connected to your laptop the 2nd 320GB drive seems soo little.

    But back to the drive, yea I love the thing, fast, quiet and reliable. Then again, I've never had WD drive ever fail on me yet.
     
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  5. JellyGeo

    JellyGeo Notebook Evangelist

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    I have the 'Best Buy' ASUS G50Vt-X5 and replaced the factory Seagate with a WD Scorpio 250-Gb. I have to agree with goggles - you can't go wrong with WD drives. On the other hand, I have had nothing but bad luck with Toshiba and older Seagate drives.
     
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