HP Replacement 250GB Harddrive

Have any of you recently bought a dv2000 series laptop from hp? If so what brand hard drive did it ship with? I'm asking because, my original 160gb seagate hd died, and hp sent me a 250gb hitachi 5k250, now that drive has died, and i am wondering if they are going to ship out the same brand drive or if they use 250gb drives from multiple vendors or if they just stick with the 5k250.

Thanks

 

I would assume that they use the same brands of drives over the entire series of HP notebooks. I have a DV6700 series and it has a 250GB drive from WD.

 

Usually they'll send you the EXACT same drive EVERY TIME. When my HDD died, they sent me the EXACT same, Hitachi 160 GB 5400 RPM drive, both times. The product numbers were EXACTLY identical.
Why they'd send you a different size drive makes no sense to me?

Although, just to mention, mine wasn't CTO, it was a preconfigured HP Pavilion. The preconfigured ones use the exact same drive for each of them I would think.

 

Most likely It was a mistake on the person who was sending out the replacement because of multiple HDD options.

 

Yeah matter of fact they have sent me different drives in the past. Probably a mistake. Call them again and ask for another replacement. If it's still a screw up, all the case manager line.

 

HP can use any HD manufacturer they want, most likely theyll send you the same brand HDD though

I got a 250gb WD scorpio on my current dv2500. WD quite a good brand.

My older dv2000 came with a 160gb hitachi drive which was horrible.

 

Well sure they can, but on the preconfigured models, I THINK they use the same HDD. For example, on a DV2511ca (which doesn't exist, just as an example), they could have a 200 GB Hitachi, and that HDD model will be on all DV2511ca's.

 

I found that from higher tech level they don't actually select what comes out. They pick from the shelve and don't open the boxes so basically you get is quite random, although if they had 5000 HDDs of this kind order it is more likely that within a short period of time you might get exacly the same.
When they changed my HDD once it was a change from stock Samsung to WD but that was nearly a year from when I bought it.

 

No, not necessarily. The pre-configured models are built in exactly the same way as the CTO versions, the only difference is that they are put in a box with a nice HP logo on the side and shipped off to retailers who order the systems in bulk. HP will only replace a HDD with a similar size one. So, if you had a 80GB HDD and they would replace it with another 80GB HDD, what brand you get is just random.

 

I got a 250GB instead of the original 160GB because they screwed up and therefore i demanded something larger, but now this stupid larger drive is crapping out and i want something reliable to store my data on. In a perfect world they would send me a seagate, but chances are it will be a hitachi again or a western digital i guess ... I think i must just sell whatever they get me and get a 7k200.

 

just tell them that you because of what is happening you want an old size hdd but 7200rpm. Maybe it will be more reliable. as your notebook is consumer type, they might not want to service your laptop anymore if you wont have the hdd from hp. check that!

 

If you switch out the HDD's and the one you put in fails and you call hp they definitely will not send you out a replacement if they know you switched out the HDD.

 

hp doesnt have any 7200 drives that they ship out in a laptop. They have some 80GB ones from business laptops, but nothing from the consumer laptops that i know of.

 

Yes the dv9000 series is configureable with 2X120 GB 7200 RPM drives. A lot of HP Compaq business notebooks have 7200 RPM drives, and in USA, they're customizeable from 80 GB through 200 GB 7200 RPM drives....

 

you mean i could ask them for a 7200rpm 200gb drive? Do you know of any part numbers?

 

Go to hp.com and customize an HP Pavilion dv9700t series laptop and scroll down to where you customize the hard drive and you'll see 120 GB 7200 RPM x 2 (240 GB total).

Also if you customize an HP Compaq BUSINESS laptop, you'll be able to customize with a 200 GB 7200 RPM drive.

 

Tight, I think i will customize a business laptop, find out what part number it is and tell them i will accept no subsitutions but that part number .

 

My 8510p came with a Toshiba hard drive.

 

great, i really dont want the replacement to be a toshiba drive because every single one of those that ive had, have eaither been slow or have failed.