Re: replacement hard drive

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"Max" <max@val.morgan> wrote in message 
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> "SG1" <lost@the.races.com> wrote in message
> news:5613af20$0$9128$c3e8da3$5d8fb80f@news.astraweb.com...
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>> "Xeno" <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:mv065b$roo$1@dont-email.me...
>>> On 6/10/2015 8:32 PM, felix_unger wrote:
>>>> On 06-October-2015 7:09 PM, Xeno wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 6/10/2015 6:20 PM, Max wrote:
>>>>>> If I wanted to replace this hard drive in a laptop, which alternative
>>>>>> hard drives would work?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hitachi HTS545050B9A300
>>>>>
>>>>> One of the criteria I use is current consumption. I had 2 by 160 Gig
>>>>> drives in my laptop as factory standard.
>>>>
>>>> never seen a laptop with two hard drives in it
>>>
>>> Trust me, they exist!  I have one. It's an 8 year old Toshiba Qosmio 
>>> G35.
>>> Top line spec - in its day! Now, not so much!
>>>>
>>>>> Together they consumed 2 amps in total. I replaced them with 2 x 500
>>>>> GB Western Digital Blue HDDs and current consumption was halved. That
>>>>> equates to a much better battery life.
>>
>> My son gave me one with 2 500GB drives then he took it back for his 
>> missus
>> to use, have
>> not seen it since.
>>
>
> What is the point of having 2 500GB drives?

Makes it a lot easier to do some stuff.

> You would never use all of that capacity,

BULLSHIT, particularly if you use it as a PVR.

I've got well over 10TB of stuff I haven't got around
to cleaning up or watching produced by the PVR.

> and why not just have 1 1TB drive and partition it?

Much worse if the drive dies as you have just discovered.

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  Re: replacement hard drive Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2015-10-06 19:09 +1100
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      Re: replacement hard drive "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-06 19:59 +1100
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          Re: replacement hard drive "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-10-08 15:42 +1100

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