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    Which hard drive for my Vostro?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by pixelot, Aug 18, 2009.

  1. pixelot

    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    Alright... so my current HD is dying. It had been giving me weird errors booting Ubuntu, HDTune showed a bad sector, and now I'm getting disturbing behavior from between the BIOS and GRUB screens to the Suspend feature in Vista, and filesystem errors about moving data in Vista. It's bad. :rolleyes:

    But I'd been wanting to get a new and larger drive anyways. :D

    I suppose I could get it replaced under warranty, but I don't really feel like going through customer support for the third time or whatever it is, going through their troubleshooting sequence, convincing them to replace my drive (even if they would), and then having a tech come and replace it.

    So, the question is what to get. I did read the sticky, but the suggested models are larger than I want/need and subsequently cost more than I want/need to spend.

    I was looking at this or this from Newegg.com, but I'd appreciate any comments (especially as pertains to the difference between the 1.5 and 3.0 models), superior suggestions, or arguments against and/or alternatives to Newegg. :p

    TIA,
    -pixelot
     
    pixelot, Aug 18, 2009
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    Thund3rball I dont know, I'm guessing

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    Really? I would go for the WD.
     
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    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    Thanks... the Seagate looks like a good deal. If I were to go WD, I'd probably go with one of the links I posted, since they're cheaper and smaller. ;)
     
    pixelot, Aug 18, 2009
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    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    Sorry, but if you didn't catch it before... I was looking to go lower on the price. ;)

    But thanks for the comment about Seagate. I do believe I had heard something of the sort, and am inclined towards WD. :)
     
    pixelot, Aug 19, 2009
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    What do you want? Max. speed, Power consumption, Silence, Capacity, Budget?
     
    Phil, Aug 19, 2009
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    I also vouch for the Seagate.
     
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    Well, I'm looking for the best combo I can get for the least amount of money. :eek:

    I'd like it to be reasonably quiet, get me the two hours or so I'm now getting out of my dying battery, probably 160GB for capacity (I need more than the 80GB I have now, but don't want to spend more on space I don't need) and hopefully not bottleneck my system (the 5400rpm drive I have right now does fine, other than dying). :rolleyes:

    Thanks for the input. So WD, Seagate, or Hitachi... I guess I'll just look for the best value among those options, unless anyone has further suggestions.

    Thanks again! :)
     
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    pixelot, Aug 20, 2009
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