CF-19 1Tb hard drive

Hi all, ive just stuck a 500Gb hard drive in my CF-19 Mk1, it's full already. I am thinking now of getting a 1Tb hard drive, couple of questions, will the 1Tb be recognized & what do you guys think is the best hard drive, the toughbooks get shipped with Hitachi's do they not, is it worth going for another Hitachi or go WD or Seagate ??

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Myself I have had good luck with WD. The 1 TB should work but my feeling is when you start putting a BIG drive in a core duo it's going to slow it down some.

 

So better off with another caddy and another 500Gb hard drive, do you think ?


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Darn, that are a lot of movies. My 500gb is still half empty. But I only have a small amount of movies that I haven't seen yet and want to see in the near future.
Why so much on the internal, why not use an external?
That said, I haven't found a good solution for getting decent copy speeds with my mk5. That is where the thunderbolt on my MacBook air really shines!!
But even a good usb3.0 would make a big difference. Perhaps on the mk6, but I don't have that kind of money laying around.

 

Yes that would work too. I keep all my music and movies on a external drive (300GB) but at one time I did keep them on my internal drive but it just slowed it down too much for my liking.

 

No music or movies its all work related software

 

Any brand. No difference
7200rpm is faster, but more battery hungry.
1TB is very big drive. I have 120GB and it's half empty usually

 

Same here...120GB SSD

 

What do you have for work then, 20years+ of documents, archives etc? Just curious
I have a 600Gb by accident (looked for a 160-200Gb SSD and found an intel 320 600Gb within my price). I have around 14Gb of documents, pdfs etc and another 10Gb of work-relatied (underwater) movies, pictures of projects etc. then there is the regular operating system, windows backup partitions etc and the regular programs like office, acrobat and some more, ow and the inevitable 8 years of email and attachements, also worth another 10-12Gb.
All in all I need 120Gb of space, some extra to give the SSD maximum life.
But it is as Barr said, 7200rpm's are a bit more powerhungry, are a bit faster and that's it.
I don't know if this is still an issue, but multi-platter HDD's used to be a bit more sensitive to shock and a bit more prone to faillure. (more moving parts, more things to go wrong).

 

Im a mechanic, I have all the automotive programs on there, diagnostics programs are not to bad on space but when you have to have 1 program per brand thats when the space gets eaten up, data programs that have wiring diagrams + really eat the space as some of them take 50Gb each

 

Good use for a cf-19!! But in that case the speed isn't too big of a problem either?! So a 5400rpm disk might do the job as well.

But it can be a "shocking" place for a HDD so perhaps others can tell anything about multi-platter disks being up to the vibrating job under the hood??

 

There are no dangerous vibrations inside HDD caddy of Toughbooks.
My clients use them in offroad races and still no problems with HDDs

 

Nothing stopping you going for a larger drive & partition it into smaller drives.

In fact....I looked a one recently used in the same environment & the sellers unique selling point was....fourteen different programes....on fourteen different partitions.

o.g.

 

14 partitions, that is a bit much...
Liteace, what did you get / are you planning to get?

 

I got a 500Gb WD, I will get another and another caddy, when I need programs I can just swap hard drives