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    DV2000t SATA Hard Drive?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by bennypatti, Dec 1, 2006.

  1. bennypatti

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    I just got my dv2000t from HP the other day. I selected the current offer they have for free upgrade from 40g hard drive to 60g hard drive. It didnt say anything about it being a SATA hard drive. Does anyone know if this is a SATA hard drive?
     
    bennypatti, Dec 1, 2006
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    Yes it is, all new HP's use SATA HDD.
     
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    Thanks for the quick reply. I was wondering because i exchanged the dv2000t with 80g hard drive, and intel 950 GMA for the Nvidia 7200 with 60g hard drive (to save some money). It seems to run a little hotter, and the hard drive seems to get a little warmer as well. The fan goes on more with the new configuration. I also can hear the hard drive "working" more on this one than the 80g one. I am assuming its running hotter because of the separate graphics GPU? None of these small issues would make me return it, but I am just curious.
     
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    Some drives are just noisier no rhyme or reason. Discrete cards do run warmer.
     
    ZaZ, Dec 1, 2006
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    i'am guessing the 60gb working harder probably because it has smaller cache.
     
    wobble987, Dec 1, 2006
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    Congrats on your purchase and yes it is a SATA hard drive
     
    gridtalker, Dec 1, 2006
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    hey how does your screen look and what mfg do you have?
     
    joystik, Dec 1, 2006
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    The screen looks fantastic. Got an LG Phillips.
     
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    All of the HP drives have identical cache size, read/write speeds and seek times according to HP's technical specs.
     
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    Yeah, thats what I also figured. The notebook definitely runs a little warmer though than my previous one. I am still assuming its the separate GPU.
     
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    does seperate GPU makes ur HDD works harder? the 7200 would certainly add a certain (tiny) amount of heat. hmm... probably its a windows/driver things..
     
    wobble987, Dec 1, 2006
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    thanks for the reply. i placed my order a few days ago. I really hope i dont get a bad SEC screen. I was at best buys yesterday. They had 2 lg screens.. one was bad and one was good. They also had an auo and qds.. both were great.
     
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    hey wobble, it certainly can be a driver issue since i am currently running Vista (RTM). Especially because the nvidia drivers right now are a little premature for Vista.
     
    bennypatti, Dec 2, 2006
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    Does anyone think that premature nvidia drivers for Vista might cause a hard drive to work "harder" and a notebook to run warmer?
     
    bennypatti, Dec 2, 2006
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    The hard drive should settle down after a few days since Windows Vista probably is indexing your hard drive if it is freshly installed. It should settle down after a while. Also remember that HDD's do run a bit warm, since they have no active cooling. I wouldnt expect it to be totally cool.
     
    miner, Dec 3, 2006
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