Recomend me a Hardrive for my laptop!!!!

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I* need help with a friends laptop they want to upgrade their 10GB hard drive to get a 40GB hard drive in their Toshiba satellite pro 4600 but they don't know what type of hard drive to get or anything they don't mind how much they spend on the hard drive within reason, please could somebody recommend me one for them.

Also while im here i know its the wrong forum to ask but they would like 512mb RAM for the same laptop as well could somebody please recommend me for that too.

Thanks everyone :)
 
Any chance you know whether the existing drive is IDE or SATA? I'm 99% sure it's IDE due to the small capacity, in which case you will need to pick up one of these.

As far as the ram goes, do you mean that you friend would like 512MB of RAM on top of any existing RAM, or 512MB total? In any case, a good idea would be to have a look here. I have already selected Toshiba and then Satellite Pro, however, I'm not sure which exact model your friend has, maybe the 460CDT/460CDX? However, both these models only support 160MB RAM total, so you might be a bit stuck.

Good luck mate. :D
 
Nah, you want the Seagate momentus 7200.2 - excellent battery life and perpendicular recording tech means it is faster than some parallel recording desktop drives.
 
smids said:
Nah, you want the Seagate momentus 7200.2 - excellent battery life and perpendicular recording tech means it is faster than some parallel recording desktop drives.
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The laptop came with a 10GB hard-drive, it's hardly worth paying more for a fast hard-drive when it's probably only got a Pentium III.
 
TheVoice said:
The laptop came with a 10GB hard-drive, it's hardly worth paying more for a fast hard-drive when it's probably only got a Pentium III.
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But this hard drive can then be carried on to a new laptop, should the time arise as it will still be one of the fastest around. It's not really much of a premium (up to about £10) over standard drives and even with a P-III, it would still be nippy. I really liked P-III's.
 
Alex UK said:
I'm not sure which exact model your friend has, maybe the 460CDT/460CDX? However, both these models only support 160MB RAM total, so you might be a bit stuck.
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For some reason Crucial doesn't list the 4600, the ones you found are the earlier 460 model.

The 4600 takes up to a maximum of 512MB in 2 x 256MB 144-Pin PC100 SODIMM

Check and see what is currently fitted as unless it is a single 256MB SODIMM it will have to be removed and replaced with two new memory modules.
 
I'd recommend a Seagate 7200.2 aswell - they're very fast and would provide a massive performance boost over a 10GB drive. I have one in a Pentium M laptop (HP NC6000) and it's very impressive, over 50MB/sec in HD Tune.

I used to have a similar drive in a PIII-1GHz laptop, and it was still pretty nippy.

Go for it :D
 
smids said:
But this hard drive can then be carried on to a new laptop, should the time arise as it will still be one of the fastest around. It's not really much of a premium (up to about £10) over standard drives and even with a P-III, it would still be nippy. I really liked P-III's.
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A P3 will be 'nippy'? Even modern Celeron notebooks are quite sluggish, so a P3 isn't going to be any better!
 
TheVoice said:
A P3 will be 'nippy'? Even modern Celeron notebooks are quite sluggish, so a P3 isn't going to be any better!
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I don't know you know, if you turn off the eye candy in XP, I think a P3 if backed with enough RAM and a fast-ish hard drive can easily cope, and can feel pretty sharp.
I suppose it depends what you call sharp :p
 
TheVoice said:
A P3 will be 'nippy'? Even modern Celeron notebooks are quite sluggish, so a P3 isn't going to be any better!
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Yes, I do happen to have 3 P-III computers at home.

In fact, I'll list out the comps, so I can demostrate that I know what a 'nippy' computer is:

- P-III 500Mhz, 40GB 7200rpm drive 448MB RAM, Windows XP Home
- P-III 733Mhz, 40GB 7200rpm drive, 256MB RAM, Windows 2000 Pro
- AMD 3500+ AM2, 80GB 7200rpm drive, 1GB RAM, Windows 2000 Pro
- P-M 2.0Ghz Dothan, 40GB 5400rpm drive, 768MB RAM, Windows XP

(can't be bothered with some of the rest, but then my desktop)

C2D E6400, ASUS P5N-E (to be replaced), 2GB RAM, 4x 73.4GB 10000 RPM SAS 2.5" drives RAID5, 4x 320GB Seagate 7200.10 RAID5, Windows XP Pro.

As you can see, my desktop absolutely rips the others apart, yet, if I am objective, running windows daily is not really that much quicker than faster than the P-III 500Mhz which actually is running XP on a Geforce 2 or something (can't remember exactly).

So long as you have enough RAM, any old computer up to P-III (I would say P-II's and older don't really perform due to not featuring certain prefetches [I believe]) with a 7200rpm drive can and does perform just fine.

Celeron notebooks are sluggish because of the lack of RAM and the heavily crippled cache and the fact they often use 4200rpm and at best 5400rpm drives. A 7200rpm drive in a laptop, even a very old one, will perform well.

P-III's are still nippy when coupled with the right hardware.

Of course, my argument can fall flat on it's face IF the laptop in question doesn't have at least an ATA-66 BUS... :p
 
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Laptop is IDE or PATA as they call it for a laptop.

Only moden stuff, Core Solo/Duo and Turion are SATA stuff.
 
smids said:
So long as you have enough RAM, any old computer up to P-III (I would say P-II's and older don't really perform due to not featuring certain prefetches [I believe]) with a 7200rpm drive can and does perform just fine.
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Fair enough, you do raise a good point - most older CPUs (even AthlonXPs like the horrible system my Mum has) are usually coupled with a fairly low amount of RAM and a slow hard-drive, which clearly isn't going to do much for overall performance.

I suppose 'nippy' is a subjective term though.
 
Drazic said:
Laptop is IDE or PATA as they call it for a laptop.

Only moden stuff, Core Solo/Duo and Turion are SATA stuff.
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I was going make a point in relation to that, then i saw the '6 loops in a v2000' and thought better of it. :)
 
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