Re: Low power/heat laptop HD?

Previously Neil Maxwell <neil.maxwell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've got an old Dell 5000e that I'm trying to squeeze another year of
> life out of. I replaced the old 4200 rpm HD with a Seagate Momentus
> 40G 5400 rpm a year ago, which failed and was replace with a Toshiba
> 40G 5400 rpm drive a few months back, which then failed and was
> replaced with the warranty Seagate replacement.

> It looks like the Dell is having trouble handling the extra heat from
> these HDs (I keep the cooling fan and vents clean), so I'm looking for
> a lower-power HD to stick in there and see if it helps.

> I imagine any 4200 rpm drive would help, but is there a particularly
> low-power and reliable laptop HD?

When looking the last timne I noticed that Seagate had paricular
high power consumption, both active and idle. I use a Fujitsu
5400rpm disk whixh is much better, both from the specs as in
practice. The relevant numbers in the disk manual/data ***
are power consumption idle and active (or r/w or the like).

Arno


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