2 hard drives in 2 years...

**nester** · 07-26-2001, 09:46 PM

Well,

I'm now offically in the market for a Laptop hard drive. My second drive since june or july of 1999 has come to it's death.

The first drive, a Fujitsu 8.4 gig took a year and about 10 months to die.. It's been replaced and installed in another system.

The second drive, a 30 gig Maxtor only lasted for 2 months in the car.. It had lived in a server for a year prior to becoming mobile.. It's soon to be sent back for repair..

So what notebook drives are good? I was thinking IBM.. I can't seem to find a place that sells both the 3.5 to 2.5 adapter and the drives in the same place.. *sigh*

**Arby** · 07-26-2001, 10:56 PM

Watch eBay... I found a new 30GB toshiba laptop drive for $200. They retail for about $350

www.compgeeks.com has the adapter for $3.95 and I think $2 shipping.

**nester** · 07-26-2001, 11:03 PM

yeah i saw that.. actually.. all the 30g drives on pricewatch are about 200..

with the 20 going for ~110.. i think i'm going to go 20 gig...

**jshrieve** · 07-27-2001, 09:32 AM

I've been using an IBM travelstar 20GB laptop drive for a few months and it's been good to me.

S.M.A.R.T. monitoring says it's quite healthy.

I don't have any special mounting for it. It's just velcroed onto the floor of the trunk so that it doesn't slide around. My suspension is relatively soft, but not floaty.

**nester** · 07-27-2001, 10:28 AM

well that was the bad part.. SMART on boot said everything was cool.. but when i hooked the drive up last night (after it stopped booting correctly) and ran Maxtor's power diag tools, it ran the 90 second smart test and it failed..

I actually got all the MP3's off the drive.. I was amazed. However the partition with all the useful information (config files, etc) were gone... these are the bends.. I've got an advance RMA coming from maxtor, and i'm on the search for a new drive. we shall see.

**Aaron Cake** · 07-27-2001, 10:45 AM

I have had no problems with my Fujitsu 6.4Gig drive. Startech.com sells the adapters for around $10.

**PaulzY** · 07-28-2001, 06:19 AM

lucky u didnt loose your mp3 collection, id die if i lost mine, i gotta back em up one day/weeek/month

**nester** · 07-28-2001, 11:59 PM

Well I actually considered starting clean.. and I may still do it.. I have 90% of the music on my workstation.. this way i start off fresh.. weed out some of the old stuff.