DV4000 HD Max RPM

I just purchased a HP Pavilion dv4000 (dv4165cl also shows on service tag). I like to upgrade the harddrive to the the new 7200 rpm HD (Hitachi, Seagate, or Toshiba). I talked to HP support and they told me that this models only supports a 4200 RPM HD but when I look on thier online purchase site and customize a DV4000 I see options for 5400 RPM drives.


DV4000 dv4165cl
1024 Ram
2 GHZ 760 Pentium M cpu
100G 4200 RPM HD
CD/DVD rw w/lightscribe
15.4 w/Lcd
Purchased from Sam's club Retail

Any help would be great.
Thanks Karl

 

You can put a 7200 RPM HD in your notebook but I don't recomend it. Any hard drive, as long as it is the same size, will work with that notebook. I recomend upgrading to a 5400 RPM HD if you want. A 7200 RPM HD will consume more power and produce more heat than a 4200 or 5400 RPM hard drive. Unless you plan on doing heavy computations or some light gaming then you will probably be fine with your 4200 RPM hard drive, especially since it has a 100GB capacity.

Switching to a faster hard drive will decrease load times but you have to think about battery and heat issues. My boss has a 7200 RPM hard drive in his ZD8000 notebook.

 

Thanks kornchild.

I use this laptop for work (.Net developer). Having several instances of Visual Studio open just kills the 4200 HD. I'm probably going to return the Laptop and get a Dell 9300 with a 7200 60 gig HD (which is a shame because the dv4000 has a much better keyboard).

 

Like I said, you can simply purchase a hard drive and install it yourself. The hard drive can be easily popped out. The 7200 RPM hard drive in the Inspiron 9300 is pretty expensive, tack on about $130 to the price tag to get a 60GB 7200 RPM HD. If you like the 17 inch display then go for the 9300 or look at the HP ZD8000.

I recently had a Inspiron 9300 and returned it. I recently got the HP ZD8000 notebook for its 17 inch screen and 64-bit processor. I would stick with what you like and just purchase a 7200 RPM HD, it will be alot cheaper than spending an extra $130 for Dell to add it in. A 80GB 7200 RPM HD is going for around $60 these days.

 

I just talked to HP (different rep) again and he said they have tested a 5400 rpm HD without any problems. He didn't know about the 7200 RPM but he did say that the DV4000 warranty would be be okay if I wanted to try the 7200.

Thanks Again