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    PATA hard drive upgrade help needed !!!!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by shkj, May 3, 2009.

  1. shkj

    shkj Notebook Guru

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    Hi,
    It's time to upgrade both my laptops hard drive I have an inspiron 9300 and a Latitiude D610 with both machines having the same specs...both currently have Hitachi 7k60 (60 gig drives) with are both about 6 years old (purchased in Aug 03) they are showing there age and running hot and making noise and they are PATA

    both machines 2.13 Pentium M's with 2 gigs of RAM so the machines are definaly worth keeping however I am not sure with hard drives to put in them as going fron a 7200 rpm drive to a 5400 may result in a speed decrease ??

    What is the "fastest" PATA availiable without have to worry about speed issuses ???

    Are they perpendicular and how much cache ???

    thanks in advance for the help.....shkj
     
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    User Retired 2 Notebook Nobel Laureate NBR Reviewer

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    Fastest drive would be a Samsung 1.8" SATA SSD with a microSATA to SATA adapter, connected to a SATA to 2.5" PATA adapter. Would get 81-87MB/s data transfer rates as shown here.

    As to PATA 5400rpm harddrives, 160GB Samsung HM160HC being a standout performers (HM160HC is single-platter, HM160JC is slower dual-platter), 320GB WD3200BEVE being another 160GB-per-platter alternative, with a little higher power consumption.
     
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    If you are looking for a mechanical drive look for the Samsung HM080GC, HM160HC or the WD3200BEVE.
    all three of these drives have Perpendicular Magnetic Recording, and each has 8mb of cache.
    All three of these drives are based on 160gb platters, so they have a much higher data density than other drives for the interface. In my HM160HC review, there is a comparison chart between the Hitachi 7K100, Seagate momentus 7200.1, the HM160HC and so forth. In most cases you will see the 5400rpm drive as a faster drive than the 7200rpm drives.
    Phil upgraded from a 7200rpm drive to a HM160HC and noticed a performance increase. I also upgraded from a 7200rpm 100gb 7K100 and noticed a performance increase

    Before upgrading the harddrive, download Hdtune.
    Go into the "info" tab and look for the "48 Bit addressing" box
    if it is checked, your system can read drives over 137GB
    if the box is not checked, your system can read a maximum of 137Gb. So if you had a limit, and you bought a 160gb drive, you would have to partition the drive into say a 130gb partition and a 30gb partition to make use of the entire capacity.

    If you are looking for the fastest alternative, an SSD would be better. I have not followed SSD's much, so I cannot give you a model number to go after

    K-TRON
     
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