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160GB Replacement HD

post #1 of 12
3/28/06 at 3:05pm
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Hi all

Im looking at getting a bigger drive for my XPS this one

Can i just swap out the old drive with this one?
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post #2 of 12
3/28/06 at 3:07pm
Yeah don't see why not, if it's a standard sized notebook drive then sure.
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post #3 of 12
3/29/06 at 9:09am
Make sure that it is a PATA (parallel interface - also refered to as ATA-100) and not a SATA (serial interface)
The newly announced 200Gb from Fujitsu is SATA.
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post #4 of 12
3/29/06 at 9:52am
actually tomshardware got a couple of the new 160gig hd's and they said some were actually too big so u might wanna head over there and figure out which ones.
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post #5 of 12
3/29/06 at 12:00pm

Laptop hard drive with 200GB storage space

All text quoted from techspot.com article.

-Doc

Article:

Laptop aficionados will be pleased to hear that storage space is taking another leap - this time to 200GB thanks to the brilliant work of Fujitsu. The company is to begin shipping a 200GB hard-disk drive for laptops in the third quarter of this year. The new model will have a Serial ATA interface, and is aimed mainly at entertainment and multimedia laptops, which require the additional space.

The 2.5-inch laptop PC hard-disk drive market was 81 million units in 2005 and is expected to grow past 150 million units in 2008 to 210 million drives in 2010, the company estimates. In the same period the desktop PC drive market, which has been a mainstay of Fujitsu's drive business, is expected to contract from 240 million units in 2005 to 190 million units in 2010.
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post #6 of 12
3/29/06 at 12:05pm
Not to mention that the first laptop with a solid state "hard drive" will supposedly be out this year as well, potentially ushering in the death warrant for laptop hard drives as we know them. They will be based on the same flash memory chips used in the iPod Nano, which were available in 16GB capacities by the time the Nano hit the shelves with it's 2GB chips. 12 of these little chips would net you around 200GB of storage, and higher capacity versions of the chips will no doubt be out any time; the 16GB versions were out in the time that it took Apple to get the nano onto the shelves with it's 2GB chips.

This means less power consumption, faster speeds, and no moving parts. (more robust and silent)

Just something to keep in mind.

-Doc
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post #7 of 12
3/29/06 at 12:19pm
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Originally Posted by Doc.Caliban
Not to mention that the first laptop with a solid state "hard drive" will supposedly be out this year as well, potentially ushering in the death warrant for laptop hard drives as we know them. They will be based on the same flash memory chips used in the iPod Nano, which were available in 16GB capacities by the time the Nano hit the shelves with it's 2GB chips. 12 of these little chips would net you around 200GB of storage, and higher capacity versions of the chips will no doubt be out any time; the 16GB versions were out in the time that it took Apple to get the nano onto the shelves with it's 2GB chips.

This means less power consumption, faster speeds, and no moving parts. (more robust and silent)

Just something to keep in mind.

-Doc

Thought I read somewhere that the first generation of these are going to be in the 30GB range, and probably pretty expensive.
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post #8 of 12
3/29/06 at 1:03pm
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Originally Posted by JTOverath
Thought I read somewhere that the first generation of these are going to be in the 30GB range, and probably pretty expensive.
The technology is maturing quickly. These will be out, and of a decent capacity, sooner than we think.

-Doc
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post #9 of 12
3/29/06 at 10:24pm
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Originally Posted by qualar
Hi all

Im looking at getting a bigger drive for my XPS this one

Can i just swap out the old drive with this one?
I've been using this for about a month and it's very quite. I didn't notice a huge drop in speed from a 7K60GB Hitachi; load times are a bit longer and REALLY big file writes suffered a bit.

It's really cool having 150GB (ok more like 149) of actual storage on one drive in a laptop.
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post #10 of 12
3/29/06 at 10:53pm
Those drives are more exciting to me than core duo or the 7900. I can't believe pushing the "on" button and 3 seconds later my system totally up and running. BIG plus for those drives is that it will work with existing technology and would be easy to integrate into your system. SATA/PATA would be the only potential problem. I would put one of those in my XPS in a heartbeat.

Core duo/64 bit/SLI/Solid State HD = AWESOME!!!

Did I miss anything?? Oh yeah, Crysis!!!
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post #11 of 12
3/29/06 at 10:57pm
I hope these new harddrives would also be IDE(ATA,PATA,UATA) compatible...
so we can swap them into the xps m170 and other notebooks that dont support sata drives
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post #12 of 12
3/29/06 at 11:36pm
Solid-state hard drives and perpendicular hard drives are two different things. Just wanted to make sure that people did not get them confused with each other.

Solid state HD is one in which there are practically RAM sticks bunched together, controlled by a controller (who would have thought?). It operates at the speed near RAM and is very, very fast. These have only been released as 30 GB MAX for right now.

A perpendicular HD is one in which the data that is stored is stored vertically on the disks rather than horizontally, allowing much, much more data to be stored on a single hard drive.
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