Can I install a 7200 rpm hdd

Hi I have a Compaq Presario R3000, the specs say 80Gb max at 5400Rpm. Can I install a 7200RPM hdd

 

As long as it`s 2.5'' /9mm factor, yes.

 

Thanks Eleron911 sorry I should have asked this question too. Can I use more than 80gb?

 

Absolutely.

 

wait,
your laptop uses the ATA interface.
Please make sure that you buy a drive with a matching ata interface, so that it will work in your laptop.
The largest ATA harddrive is the 250Gb 5400rpm drive by Western Digital. It is the model which ends in BEVE. The BEVS is a sata drive, so you do not want that.
However, upgrading to an over 137Gb drive may give you an LTA error, and if it does, you can partition the drive into 2 125Gb sections.

K-TRON

 

Thanks guys

 

Holy crap K-TRON, you're a freaking machine. All I ever see is your brilliant responses.

The ATA interface will allow, you only to use ATA drives, do not get SATA drives.

 

Darn, I forgot the Presarios aren`t SATA updated

 

My very first computer was a Presario (desktop) man I paid way too much for that POS

 

if he's only ide and wants a 7200rpm hd, he better buy one quick, they're in seriously short supply. Bobbloke, the only 7200rpm drive for ide would be the 7k100 or the 7200.1, the 7k100 is better. Most of the websites you check will either be out of stock or selling them ridiculously high.

 

Actually their is good reason not to go 7200rpm in the ata flavor of harddrives. For one, you can get a high density 250gb 5400rpm drive which averages 43mb/sec from Western Digital. This drive uses consderably less power than the Hitachi 7k100 which can average 40mb/sec. The seagate momentus generation 1 7200rpm drives have slightly lower power consumption than the hitachi 7k100 but it can only maintain a 35mb/sec speed.
The fastest ATA harddrive is actually a 5400rpm drive by Samsung. It utilizes one of the two platters used in the 320gb 5400rpm drive Samsung uses. This drive, the Samsung HM160HC is able to maintain a 53mb/sec average speed.
As a result you can have a much higher capacity with a 5400rpm drive, less power consumption, more battery life and much faster speeds all in a 5400rpm package. Plus the HM160HC will only run about $70, so its a cheap drive.

K-TRON

 

yeah just go for the HM160HC as ktron said, the only advantage of the 7200rpm would be access time, which is more or less cancelled out by the read/write speed of the 7200.

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Can one of you experts clarify something for me? Is SATA the same as Serial ATA? It's a bit late in the game for me to ask, but I'd assumed that to be the case and ordered two Fujitsu SATA 120GB 7200rpm drives to upgrade my Toshiba with. It currently has 2 120GB Serial ATA drives in it, 5400's. Gonna suck if I have to send the new drives back from out here.

 

yes it is, sata = serial ata

 

Good to know, thanks for the rapid response.