Hard drive question

Hey Everyone, While I wait for my laptop to come in, I wanted to purchase a 2nd hard drive to store all my documents. The laptop I have coming is a DV8000T. The current HD is a 100gig 5400. So what are some hard drives you recomend?? actually what I plan to do is swap out the 100gig 5400 hard drive into the 2nd slot and purchase one that is faster for the main HD. So i need recomendations... also sorry for a newbie question but do the 2 hard drives have to be identicle? I notice on all the HP laptop they are always 2 identicle drives. Thanks.

 

If you don't need a lot of space on the main partition, the 60GB Hitachi 7200RPM drive seems like a good choice.

 

i thought i needed a sata HD?? is that sata HD??

 

theres SATA versions and PATA (IDE) Ones. Usually the PATA ones are a little cheaper than SATA harddrives

 

very cool. thanks for quick response, i just found what i was looking for on froogle for about 117 bucks. anyone know where to get it cheaper??

Ok next question. my dv8000t is coming this week but i want to do a clean sweap. will i need the window media cd to do this?

 

usually newegg.com has good prices on harddrives and other accessories also could try buy.com and mwave.com they also usually have competitive prices, oh and zipzoomfly.com sometimes has some good deals

 

He can't choose based on price but on what interface he has on his upcoming notebook , ATA133 ( IDE ) or ATA150 ( SATA ) .

The 7K60 or 7K100 are a good choise even at 60GB size . A good option is to put the windows dir on the faster new drive and the pagefile and big media files on the 2nd drive bigger slower drive .

 

cool thanks. can anyone answer my 2nd question above about the window cd?

 

If you are refering to doing a clean install of Windows you will need the XP cd. If you did not order one with your notebook I think you can buy one from HP. If you burn off the recovery CDs it will only restore your notebook to its original factory state bloatware and all.