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    hard drive Brand

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by TeRm, Sep 25, 2006.

  1. TeRm

    TeRm Notebook Enthusiast

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    I was wondering what 7,200 rpm hdd my hgl30 from powernotebooks will come with? HITACHI Travelstar, Seagate Momentus, ect.
     
    TeRm, Sep 25, 2006
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    bribri135 Notebook Guru

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    The people at powernotebooks are great, I suggest you e-mail them directly or just ask a message at the bottom. When I was buying my laptop it only took about a day to get a reply.
     
    bribri135, Sep 25, 2006
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  3. chrisyano

    chrisyano Hall Monitor NBR Reviewer

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    I agree with bribri135. An email or even a quick call should get you the answer to your question very quickly.
     
    chrisyano, Sep 25, 2006
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  4. Donald@Paladin44

    Donald@Paladin44 Retired

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    It is either the Hitachi or Seagate because that is all we use. To see which one you have just go into Device Manager and click on the + sign next to Disk Drives and it will tell you the model number from which you can determine the manufacturer. If you can't decipher which manufacturer it is, just post the model number here.
     
    Donald@Paladin44, Sep 25, 2006
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  5. iSkylla

    iSkylla Notebook Consultant

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    Yay, I have Seagate. I don't like Hitachi that much because I've had a bad experience with their DeskStar drives.

    There's a reason why people call them the Hitachi Death Stars. I had one die in a RAID 0 configuration. You can imagine what happened. I don't know about their laptop HDs but if Donald uses them, I'm sure they're good ;)
     
    iSkylla, Sep 25, 2006
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  6. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Teaches you to use drives in RAID-0 without a backup ;)

    The "deathstar" range of deskstars from both IBM and Hitachi was like, 3 or 4 years back. They've improved quality much since then. Most drives any more are good, but you should always makes backups, no matter what brand you use.
     
    Pitabred, Sep 25, 2006
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  7. pyro9219

    pyro9219 Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    I remember the fun these drives had... and all the hours of RMA's... and the class action lawsuit....

    Thankfully, I've never had a single problem with either hitachi or seagate 2.5" drives. I'm also a pretty big fan of the deskstar drives even having lived through that nasty generation. To this day my main raid is still setup using deskstars.
     
    pyro9219, Sep 25, 2006
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