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Putting a 100gb 5400rpm or 60gb 7200rpm drive in a Dell Inspiron 1150?
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1 Jan 2006 21:10:41 -0800
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gaikokujinkyofusho...
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Hi, i just got off the phone for the third time with Dell tech support.
They can be really accommodating when something dies within the
warranty but when it comes to tech knowledge they are lacking. I was
told 3 diff things by 3 diff representatives. I wanted to either put in
a 60gb 7200rpm OR 100gb 5400 drive to replace my intolerably slow/small
60gb 4500 drive. None of the answers the reps gave me told me i could
put either of these into the notebook i have, but because they were so
inconsistent i wanted to double check (or find out how i can double
check).
Does anyone know if either of those drives can fit in this model
notebook, or can anyone tell me how i can find out (without consulting
Dell).
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers
-Gaiko
PS Another reason for not using Dell would be that i can find both of
those drives for a ton cheaper (almost half the price) than i can find
them on the Dell site.
kony...
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Yes, the RPM does not matter and if it came with 60GB it's
of an age that it should start out supporting at least to
128GB capacity if not beyond.
IMO, better to get the 7K2 RPM version, RPM seems to matter
more than size or cache on a notebook drive (presuming same
generation of technology).
As Rod noted, the one issue may be size.
ohaya...
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kony,
Agreed...
To Gaiko,
I forgot to mention that the drive I put into my son's R3370US recently
was an 80GB 7200 RPM Hitachi (7K100) with an 8MB cache, and the laptop
(which has an AMD 64 processor) is noticeably faster with the new
drive. I'm really glad that we went with it vs. a 5400 RPM model that I
was debating about...
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Erich J. Schultheis, The Man with the 15 inch Cock....
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It's not that they are lacking knowledge, it's because Dell support is
all the way out in INDIA! The U.S. Dell employees are too busy
installing Spyware on some helpless sap's new DELL before shipping it
out to him .
My suggestion to you is make sure your next PC is a Hewlett Packard or
a Compaq.
gaikokujinkyofusho...
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Funny, my last notebook was a compaq and it lasted just over a year
(started dying right after the warrenty expired). I am not a Dell die
hard but i liked the warrenty and they have been good about service
(minus knowing about hard drives) and were cheaper than compaq. oh
well, each to thier own. As for the spyware, yeah your right, but i
formated my drive and reinstalled my OS, problem solved.
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sdlomi2...
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This link should tell you what will fit: >>
http://www.drivesolutions.com/cgi-bin/shop/ug2store.cgi?command=listitems&kind=dll&pos=0&type=itemid&itemid=dll8
<< HTH, sdlomi2
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