Laptop Hard Drive

Rambaud · 2 Aug 2006 at 14:57

I am wanting to install a larger hard drive in my Inspiron 6400 - it's currently a 80Gb one.

Any recommendations?

semi-pro waster · 2 Aug 2006 at 15:51

When I replaced mine on my old laptop I went for a Hitachi and it has proved to be a good drive(3 years on) so far. Any of the major manufacturers should be fine though, just make sure that your bios can support as large a hard drive as you want to install. When I changed mine the general rule was you could have a drive up to 3x the original size and it should still work(went from 10gb to 40gb though

) but I have no idea if that is still the same plus the largest hard drive I have seen recently is 160gb for a laptop.

Rambaud · 2 Aug 2006 at 17:28

Thanks for your input.

I assume that the 7200 rpm drives run significantly hotter than the 5400 rpm ones?

Silver_&_Gold · 2 Aug 2006 at 21:20

Rambaud said:
Thanks for your input.

I assume that the 7200 rpm drives run significantly hotter than the 5400 rpm ones?

Obviously they do run a little hotter due to the faster spindle speed, however IBM's 7200 2.5" HD's are designed so well that they actually use the same amount of power as some of the less efficient 5400rpm 2.5" HD's.

fonzee · 2 Aug 2006 at 22:53

recommened either IBM or Hitachi 2.5" drives... the 7200rpm hitachis are very good noise wise...