RE: Best HDD's for laptops?
"LEI CHEN" <[email protected]>
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TravelStar is a Hitachi's product, and because of it's the most reliable one, so IBM uses it as Thinkpad's HHD for years. For example: a 5400 80Gb IDE 2.5" Travelstar has 8Mb of cache. For your reference: http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/hgst/?epi_menuItemID=0f34be57a7adb6fd2 5ad4e8060e4f0a0&epi_menuID=f3422d6ea3268f8d5f5a530560e4f0a0&epi_baseMenuID=2 2f0deefa8f3967dafa0466460e4f0a0 Cheers, LEI -----Original Message----- From: Erich Dollansky [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 9:48 PM To: LEI CHEN Cc: 'Alejandro lanjoe9 Valenzuela'; [email protected] Subject: Re: Best HDD's for laptops? Hi, LEI CHEN wrote: > As long as I concern of using laptop, the best HDD should be Toshiba > TravelStar. Travelstar is an IBM brand. I use Toshibas since 1997 without fault. I have had one fault with a TravelStar. > Hello, my laptop's HDD (Toshiba MK401GAS 40 GB) had a horrible mechanical > failure a few days ago, after about 3 years of use. It could have been just bad luck. > What HDD brands/models/manufacturers would you recommend? > I need one that resists heavy use.. IBM/Hitachi have meanwhile selected models for this purpose. I never have seen them in the wild. Erich _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"