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.

    Adding HD to Clevo D901C

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by badboidave, Jan 12, 2009.

  1. badboidave

    badboidave Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    18
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    hi,

    I Need so much needed space but no idea where to start.

    I need a very reliable hard drive from 250 - 500 GB

    I believe my existing Hard drive is:
    "200GB; SATA-300; 7,200rpm; up to 3Gb/s; 16MB cache; 2.5-inch"

    - Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600: 2.40GHz; FSB1066; 8MB L2 cache; LGA775; 65nm; 95W
    - 512MB GDDR3; nVidia Quadro FX 1600; OpenGL; DX10; 16x PCIe; MXM VGA Module
    - 4 gb ram
    - Win xp 32 bit

    Can anyone suggest a good brand a model of Hard drive that is as fast or faster than my existing one?

    thanks for the help

    dave
     
    badboidave, Jan 12, 2009
    #1
  2. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

    Reputations:
    4,412
    Messages:
    8,077
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    205
    i think you are best off upgrading to three 500gb 5400rpm harddrives. If you need the capacity than thats the way to go. Currently the best 500gb 5400rpm drive is the Western Digital WD5000BEVT.
    Installing three of those will give you 1.5Tb, but when formatted it will be ~1395Gb

    In a few weeks the 500gb 7200rpm harddrives will be on the market. So if you can wait about a month you can get 1.5TB at a higher rotation speed.

    Please note that the WD5000BEVT can do ~66mb/sec, which is almost as fast as the 320gb 7200rpm drives.
    The 500gb 7200rpm drives will probably be about 80mb/sec or so but we can only imagine since they are not available yet.

    Also, you can install all three in raid 0 for the highest performance, or you can install them as three separate drives.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Jan 12, 2009
    #2
  3. Michel.K

    Michel.K 167WAISIQ

    Reputations:
    353
    Messages:
    1,216
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I'd love to have your notebook ;) I was just on the site configuring my with minimal specs and that was $2500, e8400, 1GB ram, no wlan, no OS, 80GB etc.. lol


    I'd go for the WD5000BEVT (WD 500GB 5400rpm) too, those are as fast as the 320GB 7200rpm drives out there.
     
    Michel.K, Jan 12, 2009
    #3
  4. badboidave

    badboidave Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    18
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hmm.

    thanks for the suggestions

    I don't need that much storage....1.5 terabytes

    I was thinking a 320 GB 7200RPM.... with the same specs I had before

    I was hoping some people could suggest a reliable HD with these specs..

    Hitachi or Seagate...or others.

    thanks all =)
     
    badboidave, Jan 12, 2009
    #4
  5. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

    Reputations:
    4,412
    Messages:
    8,077
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    205
    If you want a 320gb 7200rpm drive, their are three options.
    The Western Digital WD3200BEKT, is the fastest at loading applications
    The Seagate ST9320421AS has the best hdtune scores, (highest data bandwidth)
    The Hitachi 7K320 has the fastest operating system loading times, and is also the quietes of the three.

    I have three 7K320's and they are all very good reliable drives.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Jan 12, 2009
    #5