You need to figure out if the notebook hard drive is SATA or PATA. Once you figured that out, try to find a drive with fall protection. Toshiba makes some good drives for this, but are a bit slow in speed. If your looking for performance, Samsung has some good ones out right now. Unfortunately the Western Digital Notebook drives run hot and use a lot of voltage.
Also, my back up is like 3 fold. Laptop is backup'd to main computer at home over network. Home computer is backed up to External FireWare drive. Firewire drive is backup'd at work and stored on servers there. Right now it's about 350GB of data. Good luck on your search, Tim "The Beave" Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:56 AM To: hwg Subject: [H] Notebook hard drives 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
