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    Where can I a buy 320gb laptop hard drive

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by nizzy1115, Oct 7, 2007.

  1. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    Ok, so i've asked in many threads before. i know toshiba is releasing its 320gb 5400rpm hard drive. its available in select laptops (now the dell inspiron line too). I want one for my vostro. where can i buy one? any online retailer is ok. i really really need one asap.
     
    nizzy1115, Oct 7, 2007
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    Maybe they haven't pushed it through the retail channel yet...
     
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    they haven't gone retail yet...but if everyone is selling them in laptops, i wouldn't see why we couldn't get one somewhere...
     
    nizzy1115, Oct 7, 2007
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    That sucks! I just got mine last week with a 250gb. If i had know about the 320gb i would've just waited the extra week...my 250gb is already filled up to the max :(
     
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    that does suck :( i have a 500gb, 80gb, and 60gb externals as well as a desktop with 980gbs of hard drives. all are filled up including the 160gb in my lappy. Granted there are backups of lots of my data on these drives, but i have a lot of data :)
     
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    Jesus, how do people consume so much data? Pirating to many videos? lolz..

    Well, I tried and help you're cause, but it looks those drives aren't retail yet, I guess they're trying to push laptop sales up a little to the storage demanding users. They'll come around.

    The highest capacity I could find is a 250GB on Tigerdirect
    http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3201416&CatId=1277

    I also learned, they do make 10k drives for laptops in the search for you're 320GB drive. So looks like I found my newest investment! This'll make encoding those HD videos move along nicely now while not in the office. :D

    Cheers.
     
    B2TheEYo, Oct 8, 2007
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  7. Greg

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    10k laptop drives are a joke...I think there are only SCSI 2.5" 10k drives, no SATA ones AFAIK.
     
    Greg, Oct 8, 2007
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    Nope this one is SATA, and a joke? Hah I'll have to remember that when encoding a video again on this crummy 7200RPM one, drops frames left and right.

    Checking reviews, and it runs apparently cooler, and is smaller then traditional 2.5" drives and a lot lighter on battery consumption. At those pro's I can hardly see how you can draw such a conclusion.

    My dual Raptors on my desktop kick @$$
     
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    just for the record, i dont pirate anything.
     
    nizzy1115, Oct 8, 2007
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    d94, Oct 8, 2007
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    ;) tehe


    d94, Awesome find.
     
    B2TheEYo, Oct 8, 2007
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