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HD upgrade
Hello to everybody,
I'm planning to make a big hard drive upgrade for my loved Latitude C810. I have originally a Hitachi DK23CA-20 (20 Gb) which has behaved very well, but it now fells short of space. I am aiming to the largest capacity HD that I can put in. So far my choice is a Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 (7200rpm, 100GB, 8MB cache) or any of the Travelstar family.
I have several questions regarding this size and speed. I was told that a 7200 rpm is an excellent upgrade for this type of system (not exactly a C810), but I was raised concerns about overheating and extra noise. What are the tales of other users who made the upgrade regarding this topic? And about the size, I was told that a 100 Gb has some problems with some older Latitudes, but not sure about the C810.
Another thing is the upgrade itself. I don't want to reinstall everything. I just want to clone the old drive, swap it and use the old one as an external drive. I read that a good option is the "EZ Gig II Data transfer and Backup software" (
http://www.apricorn.com/product_details.php?ID=228). My question is if the laptop can boot from a bootable CD and do the cloning to a USB or 1394-port connected drive, or if somebody here has done the same upgrade and what problems were found.
Thanks a lot for the answers!
Travelstar Upgrade Kits Include the EZgig whammy jammy. http://www.pexagontech.com/products/travelstar/upgrades.html
leduke30
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Posted March 29th, 2006 20:00
The 100gb 7200rpm should be fine in the C810. I have not noticed that the7200 rpm drives run significantly hotter than the 5400rpm drives, and the Dual Fans in your model help a bunch
Inspiron 8200
1.4mhz Pentium IV
1024mb PC2100 DDR SDRAM
40gb Hitachi 7200rpm-HTE726040M9AT00-UDMA5
Pioneer DVR-K05 DVD-RW in Fixed Bay
LS-120 SuperFloppy in ModularBay
Windows XP Pro SP2
I8kFanGui 2.20
ATI Radeon 7500 64MB Video Card
15" SXGA LCD