help: looking for an internal HD for my toshiba 1400-s151 laptop that has useful ....

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  1. tomcruise323

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    Dear members:

    can you please help me figure out what internal 9.7 mm (can u tell me please how much is that in inches?) should i get for my toshiba 1400-s151? I am looking for that has at least 20 GB, great unique features, and at least 1 and half warranty. I don't care about getting more GB for your dollar because i have an external 120 GB hard drive (seagate). so that don't matter. what i do care is it has to be realiable, fast, and has unique or different feature other drives don't have. Therfore please let me know, in your opinion, which are the best ones to get? thank you very much
     
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  2. ninja fetus

    ninja fetus I'm a thugged out gangsta

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    do you want speed or low power?
     
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    can you tell me whats the difference please? also, will a 2.5 inches will fit in my laptop because my other hd was only 9.7 mm (how many inches is that)
     
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  4. ninja fetus

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    laptop hard drives are 2.5" and 9.7mm does logically sound like 2.5" though I'm not all too familiar with metric.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822146041
    Low latency, average seek time, 5400RPM, 8mb cache, 40gb, 3-year warranty, $75.
    Looks to me the best for the money. I haven't had any personal expierience with hitachi hard drives so I can't really say if it's dependable, but seeing a 3-year warranty is reassuring.
     
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  5. tomcruise323

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    sorry but 5400 rpm is not the best in market (7200 rpm is the best right now) but does it really matter how many rpm it has (why does it matter)?
    also does low latency matter?
     
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    9.77mm is tiny...thats like 0.38inches, that aint right, 2.5 inches is 6.35 cm...somethings not right here, the rpm matters because the faster it spins the faster things get read from it, thats why i envy people with 10,000 raptor hard drives, although i have no need for one those read times are incredible, i'm not too sure about latency though...
     
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  7. ninja fetus

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    5400 rpm hard drives are standard for laptops, 7200RPM hard drives are standard for desktops because the hard drives are 3.5" and have more space to work with. You can get 7200RPM hard drives for laptops, but they are very expensive.
     
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  8. tomcruise323

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    okay i understand now. well, it is only 0.97 height hd (called toshiba and coformed it )theirfore can you tell me where i can get a 0.977 in height hd (besides the toshiba site because the one they have is at least 189 dollars!) thank u very much
     
    tomcruise323, Jun 26, 2005
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