Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: aus.computers Subject: Re: replacement hard drive Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 15:45:22 +1100 Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: <5613af20$0$9128$c3e8da3$5d8fb80f@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net TBlQJyn8hqjsY83nC/p3TgBpJfHA7e7WBX4i+l3LnL08M1b8Y= Cancel-Lock: sha1:l7TLHZ+ITg7zQKjYMn5T7wSHlYo= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com aus.computers:48403 "Max" wrote in message news:mv0hsd$69i$1@speranza.aioe.org... > > "SG1" wrote in message > news:5613af20$0$9128$c3e8da3$5d8fb80f@news.astraweb.com... >> >> "Xeno" wrote in message >> news:mv065b$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.