[OT] Laptop Harddrives

[Jon Pruente]

Any laptop of the right thinkness and ATA speed should be fine.  There
shouldn't be any real reason to look for HP specific drives as it seems it
takes a fairly standard 9.5mm drive.  Faster spindle speeds will help
performance, but at the expense of battery draw and heat.  If it's one of
those hot P4 monsters, I'd be a tad wary of using a faster/hotter drive than
spec.  Otherwise, if it's a Pentium M, then the heat output should be less
worrysome.

On 12/30/05, crash3m <crash3m at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I believe there are 3 sizes of laptop hard drives, the main difference
> is their thickness, and the amount of power they draw.  Search
> pricewatch.com.  I saw a 80G 4200RPM, toshiba drive, 2.5"x9.5mm, for
> $112, from memorylabs.com...under details "for ..... hewlett packard"
>
> Matt
>
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