M1330 Harddisks

Guys I just got my replacement today.

I noticed the harddisk of the new laptop is much quieter but it vibrates a lot and is generally hotter then the old one. When I place my palm on the palm rest of the new laptop I could feel that its vibrating and the heat is quite uncomfortable. So I took a look at the manufacturer of the 2 harddisks.

The old one is Hitachi, very loud but its cool and does not vibrate much. The new one is Samsung, quiet, hot and vibrate a lot.

I would like to know what are the models of the harddisks you have and what is your experience with it.

 

new hitachi hard drive(7k200 series, or 5k160 series) is quiet and cool(my hard drive-hitachi 5k160 160G/5400rpm runs at 33C after 10 hours continuous running--room temp 24.0C).

 

Call XPS Support and explain exactly that. They will replace it again and prob with the brand you request.

 

I have the Seagate Momentus HDD. It is quiet most of the time.

 

My replacement also has the Seagate Drive (7200 RPM), and I find it quieter than my previous (Hitachi?) drive, but when it does click it makes a rapid 4 clicks and is silent. Otherwise, it is great that it doesn't have that random click-click every 20 seconds like the old one did.

 

I have a hitachi that runs hot, quiet, and lots of vibrations.

 

I have hitachi, and the repalcement came w/ Samsung. I kept the hitachi - I hope this doesn't create problems!!

 

I have a 32Gb sandisk SSD soon to be replaced by a 64Gb Samsung. These are pretty quiet. (teehee) Sorry....

 

lol flamenko you hilarious

anyways I have the seagate momentus and its fairly quiet only makes a bit of noise on startup and when im doing lots of hard drive intensive stuff. Gets fairly warm though.

 

I have a Fujitsu one, anyone else?

 

Mine has got a Fujitsu 160GB 5400. It runs pretty quiet and cool.

 

any one knows of a good deal on a 160 or 200 gb 7200 rpm drive?

 

That would also leave you with about 20 GB free from a fresh factory Dell install, including using the unused space on the recovery partition.

SSD may be always quiet, but the Seagate is almost never audible, and has far greater capacity and a much faster write speed than (even a 64 GB) SSD.

Oh, and the read speed of the 7200 RPM is great, and its cost is a fraction of SSD.

 

Not quite....

Although the storage capacity cannot be contested, write speed are changing drastically.

The new Mtron boasts read of over 100mb/s with write at 80mb/s. Just to add to that, burst is a phenomenal 150mb/sec with .1ms access time.

But yes money is a concern.

Similarly, the samsung 64Gb boasts a 33% improvement over the original 32Gb and Sandisk 32Gb models..

I think they have now surpassed the HD adequately in the performance department. We just need to find a way to get the price down. The 128Gb SuperTalent SSD just blew everything away here: http://techreport.com/articles.x/13163/1 but still runs at an estimated 4600US (which is now a higher price compared to the Cdn dollar by the way)...lol