Which Hdd did you get with your 1330?

Im deciding which hard drive to get with my 1330 and just wanted to see what you guys got.

 

200 GB 7200 rpm

i presume faster rpm, will reduce bottleneck and improve over speed?

someone correct me if my presumption is wrong

 

The 160gb 7200rpm wasn't/isn't avaliable in the UK so I went with the 200gb

I got mine as it cost me next to nothing to upgrade and you can get 5400rpm quite cheapily these days if the 7200prm doesn't prove to be any good.

 

60 gig 7200 rpm drive is what's going in mine

 

128gb SSD for me

 

Where from and how much!!? lol

 

Do those even exist yet?

 

I think so... but not from Dell... i don't think

 

Don't think they exist. Sandisk has announced a 64GB but not out yet.

 

Higher RPMs will have heat/battery life concerns?

 

Yes.... of course. You trade performance for heat/battery life.

 

Yea... I was hallucinating.

 

If the 7200rpm drive really saps the power then I'll image my disk onto my 5400rpm drive for travelling.

The 7200rpm drives in the D630 work very well and I havn't seen a massive amount of difference in battery life between the two

 

My order has the original 120GB 5400rpm drive but I ordered the Hitach 7k200 200GB 7200rpm drive for cheaper elsewhere. I plan to swap them and put the 120GB into an external usb enclosure.

 

lets just say i have a friend who works for seagate
but..the drive will not be on the market for a while to come

 

I am not saying this is so - but I am hoping that my M1330 will ship with the following disk:
In another thread I learned there is a fast Seagate 160 GB / 7200 HDD which Dell are selling separately for the Latitude and which, according to Tom's Hardware, has active G-Shock Protection.

The power consumption is higher than the latest 5400 drives but not massively higher.

Full review at http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/04/23/notebook_hdds_deluxe/index.html

(Other thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=141321 )

 

I'm going with the 160 gig 7200 RPM drive now since I found it for $129.99 last night

 

I appear to be the lone SSD guy around here. Just had to comment that, because of the performance increase, better battery life, lighter overall system,and no moving parts...I cant wait till the system arrives.

Price on the other hand made me laugh. I got it for 1/2 off because of my coupon but was just trying to imagine what the 128GB SSD would cost right now... I would guess that, if it were avail to consumers...it would run somewhere around 5000 alone.

Can you imagine???

Oh by the way...I will be using a 7200 ext drive as well.

 

I wouldn't get your expectations up too high about the SSD performance. In terms of available SSDs in the 32GB range, you're looking at transfer rates at or below a large 7200RPM notebook drive. For some applications, this could mean a significant performance disadvantage.

However, the I/O performance and access times are really phenomenal and will definitely improve performance significantly in other applications.

As for power consumption compared to a large size 7200RPM drive, there's approximately a 1W lower power draw at idle and around a 1.5W lower power draw under load. Since I'd assume a computer will be idle or at least near idle most of the time, and assuming approximately a 20W power draw for the entire laptop, you'll get something like a 5% increase in battery life.

EDIT: Oh, I almost forgot - I went with the 120GB 5400RPM standard drive as the upgrade to the 160GB 5400RPM was $100 and for the 7200RPM, $200. I can pick up a 160GB 5400RPM drive for ~$100CAD and the 7200RPM is around $170, so it's obviously not worth the upgrade from Dell, if you're comfortable with upgrading the hard drive yourself.

 

If your referring to the Tom's testing scores, I just went through them.

I liked what I saw and would, quite honestly, like to see my system boot in 11 seconds as compared to the two others which started at 19 and 25.

To me there are so many advantages such as...

1. complete silence from the hard drive alone!!
2. Less heat within the unit
3. Incredible startup times
4. system weight being reduced to just over 3 3/4lbs with a 4 cell battery
5. and yes better battery efficiency when this is accompanied by the LED and Santa Rosa platform.

This is where Im most interested though. I use my system a great deal of the time on battery power. Considering the drain by the movement of the battery alone with all the HDD access, I cant believe there would be so little diff in battery life.

I cant wait to test it!!!

 

Actually, I was going by the AnandTech tests, but they show much as you say, very good bootup/hibernation times, but somewhat dismal performance when you get to transferring large files/encoding.

The power consumption of many modern 2.5" 7200RPM drives is somewhere around 1.1-1.3W idle and 2-2.5W under load. A SSD's specs are about 0.2W/0.5W. So yeah, you're looking at around a 5% battery life improvement at idle (assuming a 20W power draw).

EDIT: Sorry, remembered the specs wrong, it should be 0.2W/0.5W for the SSD, not 0.3W/0.8W as I previously stated.

 

Thanks...can you email me the site for that?

The idle of the HDD is not my concern. You will save only the 5% at idle.

Im really curious at the overall length with respect to the draw under load (2-2.5 vs .8). Thats 3 times as much power under load by a standard hard drive!!!

The advantage is...I may get the opportunity to pop two systems out of the box...charge them and see....side by side...

 

Here's the site:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2982

It's a test of a 16GB SSD, but should give you an idea of what a lower-end SSD will give you in terms of performance. Dell is advertising the 32GB SSD for 'reliability' and not performance, leading me to believe it isn't one of those 67MB/s drives or even the mid-class 45MB/s drives either.

I'm very interested in seeing the results of your test - you have two practically identical machines aside from the drive so should provide a nice testing platform.

 

I believe the one tested on Toms is the Dell one utilized...

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/20/conventional_hard_drive_obsoletism/page2.html

 

Well, $17/GB * 32GB = $544, and you had a 50% off coupon, but anyways.

If the one Tom's tested (the Samsung, which I believe is the 45MB/s read version) is the version Dell's shipping, it'll be quite a good drive. I was under the impression it would be a slower version.

 

lol... I had a bad moment in that math...better remove it before someone else sees...

 

Does anyone actually know the brand/model of the 160GB HDDs (both 5400rpm and 7200rpm) available for the M1330? It seems I can't find the information anywhere...

Cheers

 

Reading the article posted elsewhere about how Dell have multiple suppliers for each part so that they don't get hit so bad by parts shortages I think that it is not specified in order to give them the freedom to use different parts.