V6VA new harddrive

Hi,
I have a need to get more storage on my laptop (80gb currently) - i where hoping to expand this to 200-300gb or more if possible. Does anyone have some suggestions for what drive to go for?

Thanks
Szimnau

 

You could go for a new internal hard disk, or you could decide to buy from arange of external drives. Internal ones can go up to 200 GB, and other higher capacity ones have been announced, but haven't been seen on the market just yet. The only thing is that those higher capacity drives, and the 200 GB ones have slow rotation speeds of 4200 RPM.

An external one should be cheaper, and you can get larger 3.5" ones, that have much larger storage, or a smaller 2.5" ones, that have notebook hard disks in them.

 

What exactly is your job and you need to carry around more than 80GB of data?

 

Wow, very quick responses. Thanks for this.

I use a lot of space on virtual enviroments, - each of those are approximitly 10gb or more depending on their functions. I use this for my work as a system consultant.

Currently i have roughly 5gb free space left on the system.

I have thought about going with a NAS unit like for example
http://www.plextor.be/products/px-eh16l.asp?choice=PX-EH16L

But i where worried about performence. But then again it might be the best approach. I have also thought about getting my music and video collection onto a drive, and maybe combine this with windows Media Center if i have availeble time one day.

 

Well, I would recommend an external hard drive, because it'll store more data. There are 250 GB, 320 GB, and 500 GB external hard drives available. They connect to your notebook via USB.

Currently the maximum size of any notebook drive is 200 GB, a drive made by Toshiba, but it's really slow (it spins at 4200 RPM). It's also very expensive. The 3.5" form factor gives you the best bang for the buck. 3.5" form is used in desktops, while 2.5" is used in notebooks and is meant for portability. Obviously, if you shrink the size of something, the prices will go up, and you'll get less for your money.

Some reputable companies that produce external hard drives are Western Digital, Maxtor, and Seagate. You can save some money and buy an internal 3.5" hard drive, then buy an external hard drive 3.5" enclosure, and "build your own" external hard drive for a lower cost, but I don't recommend this unless you feel you're adequately technology literate. You can pick up an external 250 GB hard drive for $100, or build your own for around $90. The bigger the drive you go, the more you save by building it yourself, because companies that produce their own external hard drives will charge premiums for larger storage capacities (e.g., the price for 500 GB externals is wildly inflated).

 

What do you use for backing up your laptop?

 

I agree with FREN. An external 3.5" drive will provide alot more storage, and they would also be cheaper tp purchase. You could buy an enclosure, and then install any hard disk you wished, and thats an alternative from buying a boxed product from a manufacturer. It would also give you complete freedom of which hard disk you would want to install, and of which specification.

 

Well, if all u want is performance, buy a pcmcia firewire 800 card http://www.firewiredirect.com/firewire/products/cardbus.shtml
and then a firewire 800 external drive,
http://www.lacie.com/products/range.htm?id=10033
I think that was the only (more performance) way to your notebook.
If u don't want to spend this amount of money, buy a external hardisk drive (7200rpm and 16mb of cache) and connect that by usb 2.0 (480mbit).
For your case, I recommend the performance but expensive way.

 

I believe an e-sata card combined with an external sata disk will give the best performance.

 

lol I forgot e-sata...... villageman u are right a e-sata card + sata drive, try to find a
a e-sata 2 card and a e-sata2 drive for 3gbits transfer rate ,and don't forget that u don't have express card!

 

Notebooks don't come with a 6-pin Firewire connector. If you want a Firewire external hard drive (they're more expensive, by the way), you'll need to buy a cable that goes from the 6-pin on the external hard drive to a 4-pin on your notebook, if you have one of those.

Notebooks don't carry e-SATA ports. Don't buy an external hard drive connected by an e-SATA - the performance gain will be wiped out by buying a conversion cable such as e-SATA => USB.

 

Thanks for your all your comments, i really appreciate it.

Unfortunate i cannot go with the pcmcia, - i have already attached a tuner to this location.

I have just surfed around a little, and i found the following setup that i think fullfills my needs.

http://www.synology.com/enu/products/DS106/index.php

And the following harddrive.
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...fa74c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD&locale=en-US


Think this will be my choice.
Thanks again
Szimnau

 

Do u know this: PCMCIA................
The v6va have a 4 pin firewire400 and if he want performance I recommended a PCMCIA card with firewire800.......
villageman remember me that he can use e-sata, and this is true,by buying a PCMCIA with e-sata interface (the case with more perfomance).......
BTW there are notebooks with 6-pin firewire.........and for the e-sata...use a PCMCIA with it,search on google.....what a noob...