Did anyone choose the 7200rpm Drive option with the M1530?

What drive did you get?

Was it a Hitachi Travelstar 7k200? If so, Awesome!

 

my friend got segate 200GB 7200 rpm - Momentus 7200.2 ST9200420AS and it's a bit loudy

 

Mine is the Seagate and it's not loud at all.

 

mine is Seagate 160GB 7200RPM and its pretty quiet bro

 

seagate here as well...even in performance mode she is quiet....

 

I have a seagate 160gb/7200 rpm. Very happy with it. It does the occasional clicks but I'm fine with it...

 

Ha, I got the seagate 160gb 7200 RPM in my 1330. After a month, it started squealing and now it wont boot... Thank god Dell is sending me another one

 

did anybody get the seagate 200GB 7200rpm version with there 1530?

 

yea i did as recommended by others on these forums.

 

I did and it's very quiet. It's also very fast...

 

Somone a couple of days back explicitly shot me down on these forums saying that the Seagate drives were not very common on Dell systems. So far, it looks like the majority....

BTW, my sis' XPS m1330 also has a Seagate 160gb 7200 RPM.

 

Seagate ST9200420ASG here, no noise, no clicking/ticking or licking

Fast and silent.


Buda

 

My 200GB 7200rpm in my M1530 is on order. Have no idea what it is yet? I am guessing Seagate Momentus as many have stated already. Hitachi would be fine too IMHO.

 

yes they are faster....but don't they heat up much faster?

 

45C under load (i.e. constant access for 30min), taken from Everest Ultimate 4.20 (Test done on a m1530 T7700 3GB under 40-44% CPU load, and 100% HDD load on battery 9-cell, power save on)


Buda

 

Would a 7200rpm HD be a lot louder than a 5400rpm one? Especially on the m1330?

 

thanks for the info guys

 

I've got a 160GB 7,2K....couldn't tell you what manufacturer it is though

Seems quiet though.

 

I'm ordering mine with a 200GB 7200rpm tomorrow

 

Is there way you can check what brand of hard drive you have in your laptop?

 

Check Device Manager in windows. It should give you the ID for your hard drive.

 

To quote what I said in another thread:

I've had 3 Dell XPS 1530's all I can say is that their hardrives sound like jet engines. First 2 had SEAGATE 160GB 7200 RPM hardrives. The third one had a FUJITSU 160GB 7200RPM hardrive.

They have been so loud its not funny. I'm waiting on my 4th computer mainly due to the previous 3 having shoddy workmanship. I pray that the hardrive will be quieter, to be honest the 2nd one wansn't too bad but my sisters inspiron is silent.

 

Mine shows up as ST9160823ASG. Is this a seagate?

 

Yes, I think that would be a Seagate HD.

 

Mine is Fujitsu and is really quite quiet.....no complaints here

 

you gotta be kidding me. I just got my LG screen now I need to try to get a better hard drive LOL

 

Same here man. I have a ST9200420ASG Hard Drive, which is a Seagate. They're sending me a 160 GB HDD since that was what my first one had and I thought that one was the quietest. I'd take a quiet 160 gig HDD over a 200 gig HDD any day.

 

I have it in mine, and I think it's kinda loud. It'll be idling and be making substantial amounts of noise. I think too much for what little it's actually doing.

 

Same here and my computer HE IS pretty quiet.