Trying to get a new HDD for my laptop, as it is randomly freezing and blue screening out on me. It is SATA, and I was looking at some of these found here:
http://3btech.net/harddrives-laptophdd.html
http://3btech.net/seataswedi50.html is one that I am eying pretty hard, and wondering what other's thoughts are on this subject? I'd like to keep it below the $60 mark, if I can, and still get a lot of space.
Edit:
Or this one:
http://3btech.net/hipeseata3003.html
5400 RPM is slower, 7200 RPM uses more power.
Your call, both look fine.
I see no reason why you really need the speed of the 7200RPM drive. If you're browsing the web, working on Office, watching movies, and doing light gaming, you're really not taking the drive that often.
Don't listen to Christopher. He uses 1800 RPM drives made in the late 1960s.
allynfolksjr wrote:
Don't listen to Christopher. He uses 1800 RPM drives made in the late 1960s.
My hard drives weight about 90 pounds each and measure two feet across. When they head-crash, people get hurt.
KermMartian wrote:
allynfolksjr wrote:
Don't listen to Christopher. He uses 1800 RPM drives made in the late 1960s.
My hard drives weight about 90 pounds each and measure two feet across. When they head-crash, people get hurt.
Haha 
That reminds me of one very early type of analog audio tape recorder during the early developmental days of tape recording. It was a huge machine that used giant reels of razor-sharp steel tape that had to move at a ridiculously fast speed past the heads to get any kind of sound quality. And when that razor-sharp steel tape screaming through the machine happened to break...
Yeesh, that sounds amazingly dangerous, Travis. Did you ever have to work with such a machine? I've had to (help) carry that hard drive I described, but I've sadly never seen it powered up and in action.
No, I never saw it in person, but did see it on a TLC episode of The Secret Life of Machines aired years ago, and probably read about it online as well. I don't remember the name or exact time frame of it offhand, though.
Travis wrote:
No, I never saw it in person, but did see it on a TLC episode of The Secret Life of Machines aired years ago, and probably read about it online as well. I don't remember the name or exact time frame of it offhand, though.
Nifty, I'll have to look for that episode; that's a very fun show. Thanks for sharing!
The episode in question was about VCRs. Unfortunately, I only had an opportunity at the time (late 90s) to see a couple of episodes, and the tape with the episode about VCRs I had recorded on a VCR was lost a long time ago.
I think the third paragraph here describes the machine I'm thinking of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_tape_sound_recording#Early_steel_tape_recorders
And a picture:
http://www.btinternet.com/~roger.beckwith/bh/tapes/ms.htm
Wow, that's a pretty fascinating article, thanks for sharing! I'm amazed that storing all that magnetized steel on a spool didn't just cause it to quickly degrade itself into uselessness.
Interesting stuff indeed - the episode of
The Secret Life of Machines in question is available on YouTube:
The Video Recorder.
KermMartian wrote:
Yeesh, that sounds amazingly dangerous, Travis. Did you ever have to work with such a machine? I've had to (help) carry that hard drive I described, but I've sadly never seen it powered up and in action.
Well power it up and film it! We all want to see!
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