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By B. Falkenstein (San Diego, CA United States)
I just recently installed this 160GB Western Digital drive in my old Dell Inspiron 6000 and so far it is running fine (knock on wood...). The old Fujitsu 80GB drive worked well for 5 years, then failed on a hot day, but actually worked again later after cooling down, so luckily I was able to do a current backup of all my files. Even though the new drive is 5400 rpm and the old drive was 7200 rpm, the new drive actually made the computer run faster, so I guess spin speed doesn't necessarily translate to read/write speed when you're talking 5 years of technological advancement in between. The new drive is also much, much quieter, only emmitting an occcasional "tic" that is very quiet.
My old drive may actually still be OK and had just shut down automatically due to overheating (if it has this function), but it was already 5 years old and a bit on the small side, so it was a good excuse to upgrade. One thing I did which seemed to make a HUGE difference during the upgrade: I cleaned the dust out of the entire laptop with an air compressor. Not just one of those wimpy office duster cans, but an actual air compressor at 90 psi. A cloud of dust came out of the laptop, even though it appeared pretty clean from the outside, and now the fan runs much, MUCH slower than it had run in years, and the computer is generally cooler as well. I would actually venture to guess that this was the real cause of the drive failure. Of course this isn't going to solve the overheating problems of all laptops, but I'll bet most computer owners never blow out their laptops like this, but they really should, and frequently. From now on I'm going to do this regularly! Just a note that if you're going to blow out the dust with 90 psi, don't jam the blower nozzle right into the laptop or you might damage components with the strong pinpoint force of air. Hit it from at least several inches away or lower the pressure to, say 30 or 40 psi...
Some people were having problems with their Dell Inspiron 6000 not recognizing more than 128GB on this drive, but I didn't have this problem. I did upgrade the BIOS firmware and installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 so that might have helped. Another tip for Inspiron 6000 users: this laptop has a crappy cooling system design and vents on the bottom left, so if you like to actually have the laptop in your lap (like me) you should buy a hard placemat and put the laptop on the mat. I know, this kind of sucks, but not only does it unblock the vent but it also insulates the laptop from heat from your legs. The hotter your machine runs, the shorter its life will be.
By J. Laberee (Plano, TX)
BIG ATA drives are getting harder to find so when I found this 320mb 'Bad Boy', I was pleasantly surprised. I upgraded from a 160mb drive, which was always banging on FULL and I could not be happier with my purchase. Just as advertised - it is fast, quiet, & cool, so the extra space I was looking for is no longer an issue for me. This drive is an awesome value and I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for additional 2.5" ATA digital real estate.
By B. Wong (Santa Clara, CA USA)
Nothing bad to say about this drive. It worked great when it was installed. Haven't had a problem. I'd recommend this hard drive
By S. JOHNSON (California)
After getting a Toshiba Satellite P35 for free. I went about fixing it's known issues. Then I tackled the speed with more RAM and a bigger faster HD. The original HD was 100GB 4200RPM. By going to a 250GB 5400RPM I actually significantly increase the R/W speeds of the laptop. The increased rotation rate is nice but hardly the cause for the biggest gain. Because each HD had the same number of platters the distance to search for a file on the new HD is about 2.5 times less distance than the original. That, the 8MB, and the increased RPM's make this HD over 2X's faster than the old one. =) Making old slow computers run fast again... Just so long as you stay away from Vista that is. Actually if you want to see some real speed load Umbuntu and it's virus free to boot. I do all my web surfing and banking on a locked down Umbuntu machine and I have never felt safer.
Fun Fact: Here is our Government at work. Windows 7 comes on Oct 22 09 and the army has just decided to convert everything to Vista - which has major problems. This of course means the army will purchasing new computers to run the bloated OS. Of course their is no guarantee that Windows 7 will not have issues but the 2nd OS in a series for MS is usualy better.
Windows 95 Sucks
Windows 98 OK
Windows ME Sucks
Windows XP OK
Windows Vista Sucks
Windows 7 ?
Save yourself the headache and learn about Umbuntu.
By Eduardo Nietzsche (Houston)
PROs:
1. Much quieter than my OEM Hitachi HDD, which was constantly clicking.
2. Much faster...wow!
3. Much cooler-running! My battery now runs longer, and the laptop itself doesn't get so hot anymore.
4. Four times the storage as the OEM drive.
Most dramatic improvement I've ever made to this laptop, as good if not better than going from 2 x 256MB RAM to 1 x 256MB + 1 x 1GB! My nearly 5 year old Toshiba Tecra S1 now boots up and runs as quickly as my friend's one year old new dual-core laptop!
CON: [...] would buy me a much bigger and even faster (7200rpm not 5400rpm) SATA drive, sigh...but it's all about supply and demand isn't it? Not too many laptops around with this ATA-6 (PATA) drive interface anymore.
Installation was painless...less than 10 minutes. Reloading and updating Windows XP took about 3 hours, and doing the same with all my other software and drivers took an additional 3 hours. But worth it, because I wanted to start all over from a totally clean drive, that's why I didn't get one of those Apricorn HDD-mirroring kits.
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