Re: Low power/heat laptop HD?

Previously Arno Wagner <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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).

Here is a recoent comparison also including power figures.
Seems Fujitsu is not that good today:

http://storagereview.com/articles/200511/notebook_1.html

Arno


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