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    Latitude D610 hard drive help !!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by shkj, Jun 21, 2009.

  1. shkj

    shkj Notebook Guru

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    Hi All,
    I was wondering if anyone can help me ??

    Here is my situation:
    It's time to upgrade laptop hard drive
    I have an Latitiude D610 with a Hitachi 7k60 (60 gig drive 7200 RPM) it is about 6 years old (purchased in Aug 03) it's showing it's age by starting to make a little noise and getting on the full side

    it's a 2.13 Pentium M's with 2 gigs of RAM
    DVD +/- burner, wireless B/G,(2) new batteries
    IT WAS GIVEN TO ME BY A FREIND WHO IS AN IT MGR FOR A PRETTY LARGE COMPANY
    so the machine is definaly worth keeping however I am not sure with hard drives to put in them as going from a 7200 rpm drive to a 5400 may result in a speed decrease ??

    What is the "fastest" PATA availiable without have to worry about speed issuses ??? 7200RPM VS 5400

    What about an SSD drive....expensive and failure rate ???

    Speed VS mechanical drives ???

    I guess bottom line is.....will going to a different drive am I going to see a decent speed increase over my current 7K60 ???

    thanks in advance for the help.....shkj
     
    shkj, Jun 21, 2009
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  2. goofball

    goofball Notebook Deity

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    you could try to find a 320GB 5400rpm PATA drive. or a 160GB 7200rpm drive. These will be faster than your current drive, though not leaps and bounds
    PATA SSD's aren't really worth it for an older single core laptop, imo, given the pricing now on dual core entry laptops.
     
    goofball, Jun 21, 2009
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  3. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    I am not sure if the D610 can see the whole 320GB as one partition though.

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Jun 21, 2009
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  4. goofball

    goofball Notebook Deity

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    915 chipset should allow for seeing the whole drive as one. I'm pretty sure the 610 has the 915.
     
    goofball, Jun 21, 2009
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  5. LoneWolf15

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    It can, but the BIOS will probably only report 137GB. I put a 250GB drive in my father-in-law's (D600 or D610, I forget which) and that was the max it reported. That said, I was able to format it to a single NTFS partition.
     
    LoneWolf15, Jun 21, 2009
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  6. Shadows1990

    Shadows1990 Notebook Evangelist

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    Yep, that's definitely true.
    The BIOS will only see 137GB, so I had to make two separate partitions to be able to properly use the whole 250GB.
     
    Shadows1990, Jun 22, 2009
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  7. Phil

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    WD3200BEVE and Samsung HM160HC are the fastest PATA drives. I have the Samsung.

    Here's K-Tron's reviews of the HM160HC: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=392163

    It will be slightly faster, but it will be hard to notice the differences.

    If you want a real performance increase you'd have to look at SSDs.
     
    Phil, Jun 22, 2009
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