Post your NP8660 Hard Drive Brands!

Well, I myself am going to be ordering the NP8660 very soon and I don't want to get a hard drive that gets really hot. Gophn came up with a great idea that if everyone with an NP8660 on here could post their hard drive brand by using the the program called HWMonitor from www.cpuid.com.

As Gophn said, if everyone can post their hard drive brand (ex. Hitachi, Seagate, etc.) then maybe we can inform SAGER so they can stop using these drives.

Credit goes to Gophn for the great idea.

 

MrDj already started a mini survey for the hard drives here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=292265

 

zomgbbq, how many survey do we need. There's already one going on. Im going to tell you what may be the factor (not the cause) of a hot hard drive and the deduction from many reviews and posts:

- Hard drive speed (7200 vs 5400): totally random
- Hard drive capacity (large capacity vs small capacity): no influence
- Hard drive brand/serial/batch/model: Seagate seems more reliable but there are some out there that runs hot
- Powerbrick w/ or w/o fan: initial reports seems to confirm that w/o a fan, the drive is cooler but when you dig a bit, the powerbrick has nothing to do and if there's no fan, the powerbrick is just hot.
- Date ordered (preorder vs ordered after): initial reports: preordered laptop seems to have a problem with the hard drive
- Bad design (no airflow / should try with a fan on it): no test made
- No plate between mobo and hard drive (Sager vs Eurocom): no test made, one Eurocom should come on Tuesday
- Heatsink problem: no test made
- Northbridge: no test made.
- Hard drive itself: no test made.

 

Oh sorry. I had no idea a topic was already posted. Mods if you could please close this that would be great.