Mobile Hard Drive Recommendations Anyone?

Okay, well I'm not expert on whats the best brand and lowest power consumption mobiles hard drives are so I'm gonna ask for some opinions. (I'm a desktop expert though )

My girlfriend maxed out her 80GB drive.. Need a much bigger one.. maybe 120 and up. Can anyone recommend one that fits into the 1520, that runs cool, uses less power, and is highly reliable? ( $0 - $200 price range, feel'n cheap right now.. And shes been kinda mean lately so.. LOL)

Prefer to buy online (in Canada or shipped to Canada, using Paypal)

I believe Hitachi are the best in the mobile market, but I don't know.


SO GET RECOMMENDING! WOO!

 

Yeah mean internal?

In that case hitachi's are the fastest but are also noisiest...

Seagates are good...so are samsung.

 

Yes, internal.

Any particular drives you can recommend because theres loads of different series and models. Frankly laptop drives look all the same - meanwhile I'm well aware their not. Zero education as far as best mobile drives go.

 

ummm for the 1520...you'll need a SATA drive as you might already know...5400rpm should be fine...

 

I heard the 250GB 7200RPM hitachi's not bad, fast and silent (as said by some of the reviewers at newegg.com). But it's about $205. Maybe a little bit more for CAN $. I'm not sure newegg ships to canada though.

 

I also have a question about your sig. Do you actually have a 10,000rpm in your Inspiron 1520?

 

Yes, I was wondering about this as well. We demand answers.

 

You demand answers?

Kinda coming off a bit nasty and strong don't you think? Yes, 10,000RPM hard drive in MY machine, so what? IS that new too you?

Look here...

I got it because anything slower is prone to dropping frames like mad.. I use my machine to capture HD plates and standard plates and edit/produce commercials/films/cut scenes etc for clients. Video Production is one of my jobs y'know. This drive is for my girlfriends machine, just so you know because it seems people think I'm asking - for use with my machine..

Now if I can get off this stool and have some more recommendations and why.

Johnny T, Yes I know the required specs. I'm looking for people to recommend some brands and model lines and why they think their the best choice. I need something reliable and low on power and I've never dipped my hands into laptop drives before so I'm in unknown territory.

 

You are probably better off posting this in the after market hard ware section

PM a mod to move it.

 

I know what you mean but I'd like to have Dell owners recommend because last time I got a hard drive for a laptop it didn't fit and it was the same form factor. LOL

 

I know you are looking for an internal. But, you might want to look at getting an external. It all depends on your needs and what type of data. If it is stuff you do not need to access all the time then external might be better on the wallet. You can get 120g in a small package for around $80 US. Then you would have 200g instead of 120g total and an old drive you can not use. I bought one of these and am very happy with it. I ran out of space and this solution worked great for me.

 

LOL to be perfectly honest. I had a similar idea. Buy a nice shiny drive for her machine that's larger. Then a enclosure and just cram the old one in the enclosure and make it a tiny NAS or something. Meanwhile the new drive is in the laptop.

You just gave me an idea.. Do they typically use SATA drives in USB/Firewire external kits? If so I can buy one with a 120/160GB drive and just shove it in the machine and put the old 80 in the case. Might save $40 - $80 in the meantime.

 

LOL, cmon, I'm sure he was just joking, or just envy of your config. So, you use SAS to SATA converter? Or do they actually have a SATA version of savvio?

 

I like the Seagate Momentus drives with the Anti-Shock sensor. I recently purchased a 200 GB model from theNerds.net for $193 US. They have a 160 GB model for $156 US ( CLICK HERE). It's a 7200 RPM drive and the 200 GB model I have is very quiet. It's faster than the 5400 models but it uses a little more power and runs a little warmer since it's higher speed. Look at the 5400 RPM models for lower power use... From what I could see, only the 7200.2 with G at the end (ie - ST9160823AS G) of the model number have the Anti-Shock sensor in them.

 

Awesome - yeah I've been looking at the Seagates the last hour or so and they seem to have decent mobile drives. Always loved there desktop models so I'd hope they carry the same quality. Currently her machine has a Samsung drive - since finding that out I've been hoping she'd fill it up quickly or something so I could rid of it. I'm not a Samsung fan by any means - so I'm surely not gonna trust them with important data! Reliability, and performance mean the most but the lower the power consumption and heat the better. This drive seems perfect, the drive she has doesn't have that drop sensing feature - and that system has been bounced around like a beach ball.

My only problem is TheNerds don't ship to Canada - damn. I'm gonna try and find that drive at one of the like dozen sites I usually shop at. I know it will be no where as cheap though. lol


f4ding, I know he was just joking around, that's why I made a big deal hoping he'd feel weird or awkward after seeing my reaction just for kicks. LOL.

Yes, I got a tiny bridge connection for it. Was a bastard to get a hold of though but luckily my work place had a bunch laying around from the old massive raid arrays and hard drive farms. Kinda stupid doing it cuz you loose a lot of the kick, but the drive still runs completely comparable to the WD Raptors we use.

 

Why didn't you get the 15K ? That would provide more kick ass performance out of your machine

 

$400 - $600 price tag is why not - LOL. To much money for something that can die at any given moment. I think of hard drives as bombs with a random generated count down to 0. lol

I found this
http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=14120DR7316&vpn=ST9120823AS&manufacture=SEAGATE

Think I'm gonna buy it.. it's cheap effective and cheap shipping. Can't find anything to top it yet that ships to Canada and accepts Paypal.

 

man.. if u want space, go for the 250gb 5400rpm one of the best value i've seen so far. IN terms of brand, most are the same however especially for notebooks i'd prefer either hitachi, Toshiba, samsung, wd , seagate.

Buy a SATA to USB 2.0 box enclosure and make your gf's 80gb become portable, there're plenty of nice box out there. some comes with E-SATA port as well.