DELL's 160GB 7200rpm HDD into DV9500?

Hi guys! I have ordered this beast for $116 delivered and really waiting for it to be delivered ASAP. What do you think? I am surprised how cheap DELL is selling this Seagate Momentus 7200 drive. Normal retail is $160-$190. Does anyone have it already installed? I will post the replacement topic on my page if someone interested, pity - will need to put new system again!

 

Nice! That's a great price for 160GB 7200. I just ordered a Hitachi 160GB 5400RPM for around $90 at Newegg. Personally I perfer Hitachi when making hard drives, benchmarks and reliability are there to back this up as well.

 

I've got WD 160Gb 5400 from NewEgg 2 weeks ago for $99 delivered. Will have a spare now...

 

I can't find it. Do you have a link?

 

Here is the link. http://www.fatwallet.com/redirect/b...etail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=341-4638
I ordered mine too waiting on it in the mail also. My Fujitsu 100gig 5400rpm drive takes forever to load the desktop and all the programs. I hope this eliminates that.

 

i got the 160gb momentus 7200 from the same deal last month but put mine in a dv2000z. comes with a dell bracket you don't need. fits perfectly in HP bracket. my windows vista experience for hard drive is rated 5.2.

 

How are your full boot up times? Till everything stops loading. Mine is horrendous with the Fujitsu drive.

 

from the time i press the "on" button, it takes 1:37 until everything loads in aero - the gadgets are the last thing to load. my system i got in October 06:

AMD Turion (TM) 64 X2 Mobile TL-50 (1.60GHz/256KB)
14" WXGA BrightView Widescreen
2.0GB DDR2 SDRAM (2x1GB) (UPGRADED RECENTLY)
NVIDIA (R) GeForce(R) Go 6150
LightScribe Super Multi 8X DVD +/-RW w/Double Layer
160GB 7200rmp Seagate (UPGRADED RECENTLY)

 

So at 1:37 the last widget has loaded?

 

Correct. Forgot to mention this is with the power scheme at High Performance. I haven't timed other schemes but i know it's significantly slower with Power Saver mode.

 

I also have gotten one of the Seagate 160 gig 7200 rpm drives today. WOW what a huge difference. Boots WAY faster, loads way faster, and everything is way faster. WAY cooler, now my laptop doesn't doesn't feel hot anymore. This was from a Fujitsu 5400rpm 100 gig.v

 

Got my new Seagate 160 7200rpm today, along with my new DV9500 with T7500 + 1680-1050. This HDD works a lot better than my WD 5400rpm and it is really a lot cooler. Thank you all, who posted here!

 

They raised the price to $129.00 plus tax. Still not a real bad deal. I ordered one because i like the Seagate Momentus drives. I have a 100 gig in drive bay #2 on my dv9000z. The 120 gig Fugitsu drive in bay #1 is slow and hot.