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    Can I replace my hard drive with this?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ORLY, Jul 6, 2009.

  1. ORLY

    ORLY Notebook Consultant

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    I'm looking to upgrade the 160gb, 7200rpm hard drive on my Vostro 1500 with this. Just thought I'd check in here to make sure it would be compatible or I have missed something. Cheers in advance.
     
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    ORLY Notebook Consultant

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    I'm in New Zealand :) My link was in NZD
     
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    Tortnotes Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have that same drive in my 1500--works just fine. Easy upgrade, too. :D

    Just be aware that the Scorpio Black sucks down a couple watts more than the smaller drive that comes with the system--it'll reduce your battery life a bit.
     
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Should work without a problem.
    You may want to look at the Hitachi 5K500.B for more power efficiency and less heat generation

    K-TRON
     
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    Seagate 7200.4 is a 250gb-per-platter 7200rpm drive.
    Scorpion black is a 160gb-per-platter 7200rpm drive.
    In a lot of data transfer benchmarks, the 7200.4 is faster, as logic would suggest. It is also cooler and more battery efficient.

    If looking at 5400rpm drives, mentioned Hitachi 5k500.B and Fujitsu MJA2500BH are good, energy efficient performers.
     
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    Contrary to what seems logic WD3200BEKT is faster than 7200.4 in most situations. This is mainly because of acces times and I/O performance. Techreport has posted many real world benchmarks. HDTune IOPS benchmarks also show the WD to be faster.

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    (Scorpio Blue = 500GB)

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    (Scorpio Blue = 320GB)

    Full reviews:
    http://techreport.com/articles.x/17010/4
    http://techreport.com/articles.x/15079/4
     
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    The 7200.4 with new firmware corrects much of the previous underperforming we were seeing. Is Techreport benchmarking done with the new firmware?

    Tomshardware recent 2.5" Mobile Harddrive charts puts 7200.4 as the best performing 2.5" HDD.
     
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    I'm not sure. I have compared the HDTune Pro IOPS scores of my WD1600BEKT with a Seagate 7200.4 last firmware and my WD was faster.

    I've seen that. Unfortunately Tomshardware did not run ANY real world benchmark.

    I4u.com ran a real world benchmark between Hitachi 5k500.b and Seagate 7200.4 The Hitachi beat the Seagate in duplicating a 5GB folder.

    I also read that. Have you seen any real world benchmarks to back it up? or synthetic benchmarks?

    I also recommend WD3200BEKT if performance is your priority.

    WD5000BEVT is only slightly slower but more power efficient and larger capacity.
     
    Phil, Jul 7, 2009
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