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    Vaio VGN-A497XP Hard Drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by phulla, Mar 23, 2010.

  1. phulla

    phulla Newbie

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    Currently i have a (broken) 100GB SATA 2.5" 9.5mm drive.

    I have found the following drives but want to make sure which is the maximum size i can use

    £45 - 320GB
    £60 - 500GB
    £70 - 1TB
     
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  2. Judicator

    Judicator Judged and found wanting.

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    I highly, highly, doubt that the "£70 - 1TB" is a 2.5" 9.5 mm drive. It's probably going to be either a 2.5" 12.7 mm drive, or a 3.5" drive (mostly because I don't know of an existing 1 TB 2.5" 9.5mm drive yet). Without linking the drives you're actually looking at, it's rather difficult for us to tell.
     
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  3. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    Exactly. The seagate is a 15mm if I'm not mistaken. But it still would be more than $100 though, easily. I'm gonna take a stab and say since it was OEM 100GB, then it's SATA 150, but any SATA notebook 2.5" drive thats 9.5mm in height will work just fine ;)
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Mar 23, 2010
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    Just to note... £70 (70 British pounds, I'm pretty sure) is about $105 US...
     
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    Oh, I know, I was just saying that the cheapest I've actually seen them is around 210-220 USD.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Mar 23, 2010
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    sean473 Notebook Prophet

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    the 1TB drive is out of question... its most likely a desktop drive... you can basically use any 2.5inch SATA drive up till 500GB easily... currently , the best one is 500GB Hitachi 7K500... it will cost about 70 pounds but performance wise , no 2.5 inch drive can match it...
     
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  7. phulla

    phulla Newbie

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    sorry my mistake, i apologise, the 1TB is 12.5mm and i did not check this when i posted my comments.

    I have ordered the WD Blue 500GB which i got for GBP60.00 from play.com

    In the past I had to replace my other Hitachi HDD a few years ago, which i did with another WD and the WD is quiet, it doesn't 'clunk' like the Hitachi used to. I have always fitted WD drives to everything i ever build and never had an issue and as far as i know, all the machines i have ever sold never had a problem with HDD.

    Thanks for you help guys!
     
    phulla, Mar 24, 2010
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  8. sean473

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    well , this hitachi is quite all right... few ppl have reported any noise... but if ur getting it cheaper , i would jump the gun... stuff isn't the same now as it was years ago... NVDIA was winning against ATI 3 years ago and now it loosing... it just like that in this case. Have a think about it.
     
    sean473, Mar 24, 2010
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