What's a Good Laptop/Notebook Hard Drive

[n2ize]

The had drive of a laptop/notebook system that I am fixing seems to be on it's way out. It's an older Dell Inspiron B130 and the current hard drive is 80 Gb, partitioned to serve both Windows and Linux,

I'm thinking of replacing the hard drive with one that is larger, perhaps a 160 Gb or larger. Anyone out here have any recommendations regarding reliable replacement drives and reliable vendors ? Also, what is the average going price for a notebook hard drive these days ?

[KG4CGC]

For a true laptop hard drive experience, I'd go with Chesterfields.

[WØTKX]

For a true laptop hard drive experience, I'd go with Chesterfields.

Harsh tasting, with giggles. :rofl:

[kf0rt]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Seagate or Western Digital. Some say Seagate is more reliable, but I seem to be buying WD lately and haven't had a problem. I usually buy computer parts from Newegg, but it sometimes pays to shop around.

[n2ize]

For a true laptop hard drive experience, I'd go with Chesterfields.

Sometimes when i really get involved with working on these computers I forget what time it is. I even forget to eat. But I don;t forget to smoke though. Smoking and fixing computers go together. Just like working on cars. Like this guy.

http://www.tobaccovideos.com/commercials/002marlboro.html

[WØTKX]

For a true laptop hard drive experience, I'd go with Chesterfields.

Sometimes when i really get involved with working on these computers I forget what time it is. I even forget to eat. But I don;t forget to smoke though. Smoking and fixing computers go together. Just like working on cars. Like this guy.

http://www.tobaccovideos.com/commercials/002marlboro.html


Well then, I must amend my statement. :yes:

Piny and green tasting, with giggles. :mrgreen:

[KG4CGC]

Without even looking at the link, I know exactly which commercial that is.

"These are my little buddies right here."

[n6hcm]

Seagate or Western Digital. Some say Seagate is more reliable, but I seem to be buying WD lately and haven't had a problem.

for consumer-grade media they're mostly all ok. i like to shop by warranty--the warranty lets you know what sort of quality the manufacturer is aiming for ... many (but not all) seagate drives have a five-year warranty, so this may be where the seagate quality reputation comes from.

over time all drive manufacturers have had their difficulties--seagate (decades ago) was tested big time over the click-of-death which afflicted certain ST-251 (?) drives, hitachi had a run of desktop drives that were problematic, ...

[n2ize]

Allright. I got a 320 Gig WD laptop drive. Now I just have to install it, partition it, and add the OS'es and we should be back in business.

For my desktop system I got a 500 Gig drive which will replace the 120 Gig I have now which replaced the 80 Gig I was using up to a couple months ago.

[ad4mg]

Allright. I got a 320 Gig WD laptop drive. Now I just have to install it, partition it, and add the OS'es and we should be back in business.

For my desktop system I got a 500 Gig drive which will replace the 120 Gig I have now which replaced the 80 Gig I was using up to a couple months ago.
Why not use Clonezilla to transfer the existing partitions to the new drive, then use Gparted to expand them accordingly? All you need is a 2.5" USB drive enclosure for the new drive.

Clonezilla is available on a live CD, and does a fantastic job, even with NTFS partitions.

[n2ize]

Allright. I got a 320 Gig WD laptop drive. Now I just have to install it, partition it, and add the OS'es and we should be back in business.

For my desktop system I got a 500 Gig drive which will replace the 120 Gig I have now which replaced the 80 Gig I was using up to a couple months ago.
Why not use Clonezilla to transfer the existing partitions to the new drive, then use Gparted to expand them accordingly? All you need is a 2.5" USB drive enclosure for the new drive.

Clonezilla is available on a live CD, and does a fantastic job, even with NTFS partitions.

Yes, I am going to. Anything to speed this up.

[n2ize]

We're doin it !!

[ad4mg]

We're doin it !!
I recently discovered Clonezilla and the System Rescue Live CD:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/files/clonezilla_live_testing/clonezilla-live-1.2.2-30.iso/download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd/files/sysresccd-x86/1.3.0/systemrescuecd-x86-1.3.0.iso/download
Awesome stuff!

[n2ize]

We're doin it !!
I recently discovered Clonezilla and the System Rescue Live CD:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/files/clonezilla_live_testing/clonezilla-live-1.2.2-30.iso/download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd/files/sysresccd-x86/1.3.0/systemrescuecd-x86-1.3.0.iso/download
Awesome stuff!

I often use the Fedora live CD version to fix my installed system. For example, this morning one of my disk partitions containing a ext4 filesystem consisting of the all important /usr directory was hosed and wouldn't boot. All I needed to do was put in the Fedora 11 Live CD version, fire up the live CD and then do a

# fsck.ext4 /dev/sdb3

to fix the corrupted partition.

Live CD tools are a godsend,.