I've only had a laptop for about 18 months now and just experienced my first HD failure. I actually got a heads-up from SMART a few days prior that failure was imminent so no data was lost. But I've never dealt with notebook HDs before so I was wondering if there was anything I should be looking for in a replacement.
I have heard that just recently they came out with drives with on-board encryption. I would love to have that but I'm guessing that the BIOS needs to support it. The laptop is an HP NC600 series that I bought refurbished so it's a few years old. Centrino-based and works just fine for what I need. Are there any incompatibility things that I should be on the look out for? Or are most notebook drives pretty much interchangeable? ----- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation
