need help on hd upgrade

I want to upgrade my compaq presario v2710us' hard drive. how do i find out the right hard drive. I'm looking for afaster HD to use. can someone help?

 

Notebooks usually use 2.5" hard drives. Go to Newegg and choose a hard drive.

Things you have to remember: 4200 rpm hard drives are usually slow, 5400 rpm drives are fine and give a high capacity (up to 160 GB), 7200 rpm hard drives give excellent performance in games and intensive applications but are expensive and their capacity is less then a 5400 rpm (100 GB).

Always buy a hard drive that has 8 MB cache. Hitachi performs great when it comes to performance, but is loud and hotter then other manifacturers. Seagate performs good, stays cool and silent. Considered as best hard drives. Samsung and Fujitsu are good too but not as good as Seagate.

Good luck!

Charlie

 

Thanks .Is there a way to check the cache of your installed hard drive?

 

You can google "PC Wizard", a system diagnostic program that tells you hardware specifications.

 

would a 7200rpm hard drive make games run smoothly?

 

how do i know if a certain hard drive will work on my laptop?

 

Also make sure to order one with the right interface (SATA or IDE). Should be in your system specs, if it's over a yeas or so old it's most likely an IDE, under a year and it's probably SATA.

 

I'm thinking about getting this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822146230 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822146226 this one, but i'm not sure if it will be compatible with my v2710us which one do you think I should get?

 

this may be a dumb question, but how do i check if I have SATA?

 

Hello, according to my research, the v2710us have ATA/IDE HD.

So the second HD you have choose will not work.

JC

 

You can just look up the model number of your current HDD(from the device manager) on your fav. search engine and usually HD manufacturers list the specs along with the interface. From looking at the spec on HP.com for the V2710us it should have a ATA6 drive. The Seagate drive you listed first should work with your system without any issues...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822146230

It will help to a certain extent but dont expect miracles. Most games are limited by the graphics card. You will notice an improvement in the overall system response though.

 

would i need to upgrade my RAM to speed up apps and games on my laptop or would the 7200RPM HD do that? thanks for the help

 

is newegg.com the best place to buy laptop HD's?

 

well there are alot of stores you can buy hard drive but in general newegg got a decent price,maybe not the cheapest but good deals most of the time. Only best stores I can find for when I buy notebook HDs and with a fast shipping also.

if your ram is 512mb I think it will be fine. If you are playing games It's better to have at least 1gb in my opinion.

 

As long as the drive has the correct interface (IDE or SATA) it should work ok. Looks like your laptop has IDE/ATA, not SATA. If you're gaming a 7200rpm drive will help performance but a 5400rpm drive will be ok. I'd say try to steer clear of 4200rpm drives as they are a bit slow by today's standards and will hold your laptop up.

 

My current HD is 4200rpm so thats why I am thinking about upgrading. I have 512Mb of RAM, but 128MB is subtracted from it beause of the video card