Grabbed one from the Regency Best Buy in Jacksonville...They had 2 left after I bought mine. Just hooked it up to my Macbook Pro and it's the 7200 rpm version Time to upgrade from my 100gb drive.

If anybody has any links for making image of current mac drive to the new one please post. Thanks.

FYI all you non-techies beware! The assumptions being made be “experts” in this thread are asinine to say the least. For Hitachi OEM drives, simply looking at the drive label or drive identification within Windows device manager is NOT a reliable way of determining the actual operating characteristics (ie RPM speed for example) of the Hitachi OEM drive you received. YOU MUST ASLO LOOK the FIRMWARE revision and compare the FW revision to the FW revision of a retail version of the same drive to determine if you received a fully unlocked and thus a 100 specification Hitachi product. Hitachi is infamous for BIOS locking higher performance drives to lower performing specifications to meet an older model drive specification requirement for their own external products and those sold to OEMs. According to Hitachi it is cheaper for them to make one physical drive base and then enable/disable specification features via firmware.

SteveDusa said:confused200 said:My old laptop has Win98SE and USB 1.1. Will this drive work with that laptop via USB port?

TIA

It will work, and you will need to install the USB storage driver under Windows 98.

And also, since you only have USB 1.1, you won't be able to take advantage of the high speed. Time to upgrade.

Think... putting a 8 cylinder super duper engine into a bicycle, it has power but you won't be able to enjoy it.
I am planning to upgrade. But in the meantime, I can use it for backing up my laptop HD.

But, regarding the USB storage driver: I now have a numeric keypad attached to the USB port. Does that mean I already have the necessary driver? Or do I need another the "storage" driver? If the latter, the packaging for the Hitachi HD seem to imply that it only supports Windows 2000 and up. Where would I get the "storage" driver for Win98SE?

TIA

DKTVPN said:Is this 7200rpm drive faster than the 240GB 5400RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (120GB x 2) from HP laptop?

Any answers? I'm waiting for my HP to ship so I can't test the performance, the other laptops are the old PATA drives.

BTW, I got 1 at Westminster (stock said 3 but couldn't find the others) and 2 at South Coast Plaza (stock also 3): they're all DTG serial numbers

DKTVPN said:DKTVPN said:Is this 7200rpm drive faster than the 240GB 5400RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (120GB x 2) from HP laptop?

 

Any answers? I'm waiting for my HP to ship so I can't test the performance, the other laptops are the old PATA drives.

BTW, I got 1 at Westminster (stock said 3 but couldn't find the others) and 2 at South Coast Plaza (stock also 3): they're all DTG serial numbers

The HP would be faster ONLY IF they setup the 2 hard drives up as RAID 0 configuration. Otherwise? the 7200 is faster then 5400.

I haven't checked the firmware on my drive, but I can tell you that I benchmarked it using diskspeed and it was twice as fast as my old 100GB 5400rpm hard drive, a read speed of about 66MB/s compared to 35MB/s

cybertrance said:x0lliex said:I haven't checked the firmware on my drive, but I can tell you that I benchmarked it using diskspeed and it was twice as fast as my old 100GB 5400rpm hard drive, a read speed of about 66MB/s compared to 35MB/s

Same here. HDTune reports:

Maximum Transfer 66.2 MB/sec
Average Transfer 50.8 MB/sec

Access Time: 14.8 ms
Burst Rate 84.4 MB/sec

Looks like you guys did indeed get the fully functional 7200.
Just for reference, here is the HDTune report for my OEM Hitachi 100GB 7200 (Model HTS722010K9SA00).

Maximum Transfer 63.1 MB/sec
Average Transfer 50.7 MB/sec

Access Time: 14.7 ms
Burst Rate 80.4 MB/sec

bocephus12 said:HELP PLEASE.....

I tried to find this information myself, but I am not havig much luck.


Will this drive work with my Toshiba U205-S5057? Any help would be GREAT. Thanks in advance!

Yes it will, it uses SATA hard drive.

How are people installing this drive and already posting on FW so quickly? Dont you need to reinstall your OS etc?

Also, can T60's (or maybe laptops in general) support two hard drives?

Last question, why not pay $140 and get a 250Gb hard drive from this thread?

namit said:How are people installing this drive and already posting on FW so quickly? Dont you need to reinstall your OS etc?

Acronis True Image - allows you to make an exact image of your current hard drive and migrates everything (including OS, applications, settings, etc.) to the new drive in 20 mins.