Low power laptop HDDs.

BoomAM · 28 Jun 2006 at 17:39

Hi.
Im looking at getting a second HDD for my laptop (put it in the HDD bay adaptor thats available for Thinkpads).

Can anyone recommend some laptop HDDs. 60Gb & above, cheap as possible, and that use as little power as possible?

Thanks in advance all.

BoomAM · 28 Jun 2006 at 18:28

Tell me, the HDD bay, is it for SATA or IDE drives.

Im looking at the price on OCUK, and for the same price as the 80Gb you recommended, i could get a 100Gb/5400RPM drive?

Bottom one: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Samsung_Notebook.html

Although the one second from bottom, At £60 for 80Gb/5400RPM is tempting tbh.

BoomAM · 28 Jun 2006 at 20:38

The age of the laptop is irrelevent in regards to power consumption. Its entirely down to the drive.

BoomAM · 28 Jun 2006 at 23:12

SiriusB said:
I meant in regards to the efficiency and capacity of the battery. My old laptop would die in no amount of time whereas my much newer current laptop can last around 4 hours.

What laptops have you been using?
Short of my old iBook, ive never seen a recent laptop do more than 2.5 hours. Even thats a push!
Ive heard of laptops with multiple high capacity batteries doing 4-6 hours, but no normal ones doing that amount of time whilst doing something meaningful on it. Most 'tests' that claim that amount of time is when the laptop has sound off, no devices connected, Wifi off, BT off, brightness to minimum and having the computer doing absolutely nothing, aka Idling.

BUSH said:
i'd be interested in this, as iirc you have a thinkpad z60m which is the same as me, and i need another hard drive.

looking around the lenovo site, the drive bay adaptor for the z60 takes sata drives, of which i've not found many 2.5 inch ones.

How is it that everyone remembers i have a Z60M? lol. This is two threads now where people have 'IIRC'ed' me having one. lol.

Ive seen a few SATA 2.5" drives around, but not on OCUK.

BoomAM · 29 Jun 2006 at 07:50

Theres no need for software like that. As it wont be actually doing anything!
Laptops throttle anyway. My laptop sits at 800mhz most of the time.
Im confident that my laptop going, when it throttles, will do 4 hours idle.
But whats the point if you cant do anything meaningful?

Plus, i wouldnt be able to use that software anyway. Im running Linux.