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    High performance hard drive for notebook

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Hairy_Lee, Jul 1, 2007.

  1. Hairy_Lee

    Hairy_Lee Notebook Consultant

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    I'm looking for a high perfomance hard drive to put into my aspire 9300.
    It has to be a 7200 rpm unit, however i have heard that there is a notebook drive with 16 meg cache on it; however i cant find one. Anyone have any information on such a drive?
     
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    Fall3nAng3l Notebook Enthusiast

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    Fall3nAng3l, Jul 1, 2007
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    Fall3nAng3l Notebook Enthusiast

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    The performance is 25% better than the 100gb Hitachi 7200rpm 7k100 drive, which is otherwise the fastest notebook harddrive. Why not go for a solid state drive, instead?
     
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  4. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    In UK, Span offer a good range of notebook hard drives (for some reason not including Samsung), although they are not the cheapest.

    John
     
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    Hairy_Lee Notebook Consultant

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    Solid state is way too expensive for my budget, also i'd like to have at least 160gb of storage space.

    i'll take a look at the link you left there john and see what they have.
     
    Hairy_Lee, Jul 1, 2007
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    joshuaLX Notebook Evangelist

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    I like how the eBay listing says this is the fastest hard drive you could EVER get for your laptop. I guess hard drives are going to suck in the future :confused:

    Josh
     
    joshuaLX, Jul 1, 2007
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