The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    3000 n200 hard drive question

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by actionjksn, Jan 6, 2010.

  1. actionjksn

    actionjksn Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I'm ready to upgrade my wife's hard drive on her 3000n200. It has an 80 gig, first I'm curious what brand it came with. Second I'm debating which one I should get. I'm looking at a western digital 250 gig black and a 320 gig blue. How much faster will the 7200 RPM black feel than the blue. And how much better will the battery life be with the 5400 RPM blue. She doesn't run any really demanding applications. And her battery life isn't all that great.. Also how do the fujitsu and Samsung hard drives compare to the western digital Scorpio.

    Thanks
     
    actionjksn, Jan 6, 2010
    #1
  2. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

    Reputations:
    4,843
    Messages:
    8,389
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    205
    If you have an 80GB drive, make sure your laptop supports more first...
    There could be a BIOS limitation what have not.
    (Artificial limit)

    I think NBR benchmarked both drives and found them to be reasonably similar...

    Not sure if Samsung actually makes their HDDs...
    Fujitsu - not sure either.

    To find out what drive you have at the moment - get CrystalDiskInfo and then google the serial/product number.
     
    DetlevCM, Jan 6, 2010
    #2