Change HD in Asus A6K Turion ¿Any idea?

I want change the HD of the less powerful A6000 (a HDD Hitachi 60GB / 4200rpm / 8MB / ATA100) for a more fast disk (7200 rpm's dreams...) Anybody has tried that or something similar with a ASUS? Papers about cool needs and formulae or graphics about performance of HDs & experiences of forum members could be a marvellous help... Models, compatibility,

Thanks to all, and sorry for my bad english... i am one of that European with three native tongues (no english of course... )

P.D. I am also looking for a howto to install a Linux distro in this laptop to use all integrated-hard (SD cards reader,Intel WiFi, WebCam, GO6200... etc) using free open source drivers and soft

 

Changing the HD should be pretty straight forward. On most laptops it just involves removing a couple of screws and you have acess to the HD. Just pull out the HD and replace with new one. Some laptop HD has a bracket just unscrew it and put in the new HD. BTW make sure power is off and remove the battery before starting.
For temps, performance specs, there is an excellent article on laptoplogic.com Here is the link http://www.laptoplogic.com/reviews/detail.php?id=92

 

HDDs on notebooks in general are quite easy to swap. Just unscrew the main screws holding the HDD... slide it out... make sure you unscrew the HDD out of the bracket...swap HDDs...screw it into the bracket...and slide it in.

 

Ok, ok... maybe newbies' joke or surely confuse question? Thanks Iku and AuroraS for your answers, but the problem isn't the screwdriver, that is the easy part... My question is related with the performance of laptop when you changed the HDD. I suppose that the laptop's architecture is design to a basic HDD of 4200 rpm, and if i install another, i can exceed the capacity of laptop's cooler system... In my main PC, if i install a new HDD and it need a minor temp. i can use a more powerful cooler or buy a expensive-piece-of-junk-from-Zalman-TM-to-chill-HDDs, but when i mess with the laptop, the limit is laptop's "frigde" system, and use a hard disk that generate more heat could be harmful for my laptop... In another words, i need know if a different model of HDD wont be "baked" and will increasely dramatically the performance of my dear small ASUS. I am mistaken about it and the hard limits aren't so stricts?

 

Changing the HDD on your ASUS should not cause it to overheat. The 5400 and 7200 rpm drives are a little warmer than the 4200 rpm drives but it is nothing I would worry about.

On my Toshiba, I changed the 4200 rpm IBM drive for a larger 5400 rpm drive and did not notice any additional heat. It did become faster and a lot quieter. On my HP, the 5400 rpm drive operates around 35C.

Take a look at this link it shows the operating temps for several different notebook HDD.
http://www.laptoplogic.com/reviews/detail.php?id=92&part=full&page=15
As you can see the difference is only a few degrees.

Hope this helps.

 

Thank you very much Iku! It is the kind of info that i were looking for... and Datasheet of my laptop, but it is hard to find to me... and sorry, because i hadn't see the "Temperature" app in the Review the first time