Deal:
Seagate Momentus 320GB 2.5" 7200RPM Drive $74 at Dell Business
Dell Business has the Seagate Momentus 320GB 2.5" 7200.3 ST9320421AS Hard Drive for Notebooks priced at $85 - 20% code C2$F7S4W96J$T1 [Exp 1/21] + $6 shipping = $74 shipped. A good upgrade to tide you over to the days of SSD affordability. Here is the Seagate site for this drive.
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tfr - Posted 12:52 pm PST 01/22/09 (223 Posts)
I bought one of these for my Vostro 1500. It's fast but surprisingly noisy. I enabled "acoustic management" in the laptop's BIOS and that quieted the drive a little bit with an almost unnoticeable difference in performance. (I benchmarked before and after and it was only a few percent slower with acoustic management enabled.) Even with that enabled, it's still a good bit louder than the 80GB 5400RPM laptop drive it replaced. Laptop battery life seems to be unaffected, being around 4-5 hours depending on usage.
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