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    Hard Drive for my VMWare Laptop

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Troy, Aug 2, 2006.

  1. Troy

    Troy Notebook Enthusiast

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    I used to have a single core Turion Compaq laptop but after HP service sent it back to me with a Sempron, twice no less, I demanded another complete laptop. Well I ended up with a dual core Turion and now I have 2 GB of DDR1 RAM that I can no longer use. I have the DDR2 RAM picked out but I'm stuck on the hard drive. It comes with a 100GB 5400 Fujitsu SATA drive that does not support NCQ. I think NCQ would help me out since I run XP Home (or X64 Pro if I can find drivers for this) as was as Red Hat, 2003 and XP Pro workstations. I use my laptop to prototype server setups as well as surf the web etc.
    Are the Hitachi drives ok? They have a 80GB SATA NCQ version for around $119.

    I also don't want to mess with the current hard drive because it has a crazy restore partition on it. I wish it was like my old laptop. :(
     
    Troy, Aug 2, 2006
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