Re: Hard drive for Pismo

[PeterH5322]

>I just purchased and installed an 80Gb Travelstar from Newegg.com for a 
>total price of $112 including shippi;ng.

Lombard and Pismo machines have issues with their EIDE/UATA controller 
chips which mandate that the attached drives be fully able to negotiate 
down from ATA-6.

The Samsungs, some Toshibas and perhaps the new Hitachi/IBMs will not 
properly negotiate.

Certain old Toshibas (up to about 10 GB) and the 5K80 series of 
Hitachi/IBMs will properly negotiate.

There are better deals on Hitachi/IBMs than Newegg.com (I have bought 
several Samsungs for my Wallstreets from them, and one 5K80 Hitachi/IBM 
from them, too).

BestBuyPC, for example, *may* substitute a later series for the 5K80, at 
their whim.

Two orders placed with BestBuyPC a few days apart resulted in the first 
one being a newer Hitachi/IBM, as a substitute *without notice*, and 
defective to boot, and the second one being a 5K80.

The "sweet spot" on 2.5" drives is at 60 GB right now, and those wanting 
less than 60 GB, or more than 60 GB, may be paying a premium price per GB 
for their drives.

I have actually encountered situations where a 20 GB drive cost more than 
a 30 GB drive from the same drive series and from the same retail seller.

Newegg.com is good in that their shipping in certain select items is very 
low priced.

The same is true of BestBuyPC.

Incidentally, BestBuyPC is one source of replacement optical drives for 
Lombards and Pismos (and for the MCE optical drive bays for the 
Wallstreets). There are others. Depending upon availability, $105 could 
get you a +/-, read/write/rewrite, CD/DVD drive with two-layer support. 
Alas, the laptop's EIDE/UATA controller chips seem not to be up to the 
job of successfully burning DVDs on a consistent basis.

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Re: Hard drive for Pismo

[John Collins]

I just purchased and installed an 80Gb Travelstar from Newegg.com for a 
total price of $112 including shippi;ng.


John
On Sep 2, 2005, at 4:50 AM, Ed Zelinsky wrote:



60gb Hitachi Travelstar 2.5" 9.5mm 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, ATA/ 6 
12.0ms 8MB Buffer






Is this a good HD for my Pismo. I just want a reality check before I 
buy and 'try' to install it. It's going to set me back about $190.







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Hard drive for Pismo

[Ed Zelinsky]

60gb Hitachi Travelstar 2.5" 9.5mm 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, ATA/ 6 
12.0ms 8MB Buffer






Is this a good HD for my Pismo. I just want a reality check before I 
buy and 'try' to install it. It's going to set me back about $190.




Thanks for any feedback.


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