What Hard Disk ?

Hi, can anyone tell me what "Brand" of hard disk ships with the following HP model, HP Pavilion dv6157ea (UK Edition).

Please dont say Seagate !

Thanks

 

HP uses several brands, so the one you have might not be the same another dv6157, so the best way to identify is to look up the drive model number in your device manager.

 

I dont own it yet !, I refuse to by the notebook if it has a seagate drive though

 

Then be ready to... Never buy the laptop.

It's impossible to find out which hard drive goes into ANY notebook until you have in your hands, since basically all notebook manufacturers use several different hard drive companies.

 

Yepers, Ive spoke to HP and they said they cant verify the exact brand used.

So, I shall have to buy, and boot up, check system componets.....and then decide wether to keep it or not.

Or by a ultra quiet samsung and install it myself, regardless of what comes pre-installed.

 

I have the Seagate 7200.1 drive. It is the quietest drive I have ever used and performance is very good. Plus it has a five year warranty. All manufacturers produce drives that fail which would include the manufacturers who are not Seagate. The important thing is to have a good backup of things you cannot afford to lose.

 

They are trash imo, they dont support aam or disk utilities due to seagate beong under patent infringment.

Besdides, they support high pitch sound as being quiet, and thats no use when you find high pitch irratating, I need user configurable low pitch sound like the Samsungs.

 

why don't you like seagate notebook harddrive? they are quiet, good performance and doesn't generate a lot of heat.

infact they are the one who pioneered the quiet harddrive trend.

 

Go down to your local store you intend to buy from and look in device manager.

Another way to do it is to pull the hard drive access panel off and look at the drive. I would assume if buying locally this could be done without have to "boot" the computer into the OS as a condition of purchase.
Like already stated above, HP like all the other computer mfg's uses drives from differant vendors.

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This may be the dumbest thing I have ever heard!

I replaced my Hitachi 5400 RPM 120 g stock drive on my DV6000t with A Seagate 7200 RPM 80 g drive, and it is much quieter, runs just as cool (despite the speed difference), and is rock solid. Every utility I have run on it runs well, and I couldn't be happier. Not buying a good laptop because it has a Seagate drive is, well, I already insulted you once...

 

While I haven't had a Seagate notebook drive yet I have had several of their desktop drives and they have been nothing but high quality, quiet drives. I like them so much that it's hard for me to buy any other brand!