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Hi all,
Just reporting that the Western Digital 500GB Scorpio Blue 5400RPM SATA-300 8MB
Hard-drive installed perfectly, installed using the online instructions (google), the case was a bit fiddley, but definately not as serious as described, you definately dont need a screwdriver to ‘prise’ anything, you’ll stand more chance of uglying your case using that approach, pop the front of the case first, hinge the case open a little and use the leverage to pop the back open, the clips will pop open with a little movement.
Anyhoo, no need to reconfigure my bios, the drive was automatically detected, I had issues with placing the old image from the original drive onto the new drive, so I ended up fresh installing XP and the Samsung Apps using an external DVD drive.
4 partitions
XP
Linux
Music
StuffLife is sweet.
I’ve already filled 200+ with my Design files, great to be able to preview my designs with clients without lugging a giant laptop around.
That sounds awesome. I’m sure there are many people that will only need the 160gb supplied but we all know there will be plenty that need that extra space. Being able to carry round that data so easily to clients seems the perfect application for a little netbook.
Thanks for reporting back 🙂
is it any faster than the one you had before?
does it end up consuming more energy or it didn’t change anything?
I want to change my hard disk with the same scorpio blue model but 320G,but I am still thinking about putting inside the black scorpio 7200(but I think that nothing will change due to the limits of the processor).what do you think?
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is it any faster than the one you had before?
does it end up consuming more energy or it didn’t change anything?
I want to change my hard disk with the same scorpio blue model but 320G,but I am still thinking about putting inside the black scorpio 7200(but I think that nothing will change due to the limits of the processor).what do you think?
[/quote1228147017]If i was you, i wouldnt go for a 7200RPM. You can btter invest in a little more ram to throw that Swap file away.
Its really handy, the 2GB ram upgrade seems to have offset the lack of 7200, I’ve not noticed any speed reductions or (increase?)
but oh yes the 500GB is excellent, I just previewed a high res Illustrator file at 168MB, with a portable version of Illustrator (amazing portable apps) it took a minute to boot and render.
I’ve just shot 3GB of footage and moved to my HD, im just editing it now for Flash (again a portable version).
PS for those who are wondering what the hell the difference is to upgrade to 2GB RAM, well Photoshop is a good reason, the filters take a third of the time to prime.
Battery life seems the same.
Well done mate, when I come to swap my HDD it’s be the other way in size but more robust as it”ll be a SSD
http://www.hdtune.com/
Any chance you can d/l and install this?
and post your results will help us see how to stands next to our drive..I’v been toying with the idea of this i do alot of photography and can shoot 8gb of data some weekends i like to keep data to email to the website at a later date and 160gb might not last too long!
I saw that there are 2 different model:
one with sata 1,5 G/s and the other is sata 3 G/s,which one is compatible?
Sounds impressive, 500 GB is probably too large for my requirements. Where did you get your drive from? And also what size of drive does the NC10 take?
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I saw that there are 2 different model:one with sata 1,5 G/s and the other is sata 3 G/s,which one is compatible?
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Sata is backwards compatible. If sata2 doesnt work, it automatically switches to Sata1.Can I post links to stores here?
For those that are interested I brought via Dabs.com
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=58P6
some nice features like
SecurePark
Shock Guard
WhisperDrive
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