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    Help on new hard drive for 1530

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Mrtudball, Dec 19, 2007.

  1. Mrtudball

    Mrtudball Notebook Guru

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    Dell suprised me by sending my laptop today, wasnt suppose to ship until 01/02/08. I only ordered a 120gb hard drive and 1gb of ram since I was going to upgrade those with purchases from newegg.

    My question is on newegg they have SATA 3.00gb and Serial ATA150 and ata-6. From my invoice I know the hard drive is SATA, but I dont know which of the above is compatible and or the best option for the fastest 7200.
     
    Mrtudball, Dec 19, 2007
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  2. Charr

    Charr Notebook Deity

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    As long as it is SATA, don't worry about the speeds. No HDD or SDD in existence has the ability to saturate the channel.

    Hitachi 7k200 are the best performing drives available, with the 7200.2 next.
     
    Charr, Dec 19, 2007
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    mtv2004 Notebook Evangelist

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    i saw that too, and i am not sure. Maybe someone else can help

    btw, did you ordered your m1530 on the 16th?
     
    mtv2004, Dec 19, 2007
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    +1

    Go for the 7K200 200 GB.
     
    scooberdoober, Dec 19, 2007
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    Mrtudball, Dec 20, 2007
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    scooberdoober, Dec 20, 2007
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