Re: Low power/heat laptop HD?

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:44:47 +1100, "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>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
>
>Yeah, lousy design, they run the hard drives right on
>the edge of what the hard drive manufacturer allows
>with the low end Dell craptops, and that kills drives.

This was actually a mid-end laptop in its day (ran about $2500 back in
2000). The original 12G 4200 rpm drive held up very well for 4 years,
and is still in the good parts drawer - it just wasn't big enough.

Everything's been running a good bit hotter and a bit more unstable,
including the PCMCIA cards, since moving up to the bigger 5400 rpm
drives. It looks like the extra power pushed it over the edge.


--
Neil Maxwell - I don't speak for my employer
.

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