Hi
I know they aren't cheep but what about a slid state drive (SSD) they are
getting lower and lower in price buy the month and their are even a few of them
that support PATA 100 as well. I would say the 128GB modells are resonably
priced. You need to install drivers etc offcourse but if you are willing to open
your laptop with a screwdriver you probably can fix that too.

Go to a shooping site and search for good prices on a flash drive its the future
anyway.
\Peter

--- Den sön 2008-12-14 skrev Ardell Faul <ardell@...>:

> Från: Ardell Faul <ardell@...>
> Ämne: Re: [linux-dell-laptops] internal hard drive DELL800 latitude
> Till: linux-dell-laptops@yahoogroups.com
> Datum: söndag 14 december 2008 07.17
> For what it's worth, I see a lot of failed hard drives
> in the laptop
> repair business, and my experience has been that the drives
> most prone
> to fail are the ones over 100Gbyte. In fact, I don't
> think I have ever
> had to replace a drive in the 40 to 80 Gbyte range. And
> almost without
> exception, the drives I see in laptops almost never have
> anything like
> even 40 gbytes of data in them. Anybody who downloads and
> carrys around
> 160 Gbytes worth of important data in a laptop is being
> foolish. Very
> foolish. They are just asking for it, and they usually get
> it. I don't
> understand why anybody would even WANT to put a very large
> hard drive in
> a laptop. If you want to collect a lot of music or video,
> an external
> backup drive or a desktop drive is a much more sane choice.
> It is just
> plain stupid to carry around a laptop with a lot of data
> stored in the
> hard drive. One slip of the hand, or a good solid thump
> under the area
> where the hard drive is, and you can kiss all your data
> goodbye.
>
> I guess it is the Geek Squad blurb, you know--put in a 160
> Gbyte hard
> drive, 2 gigs of memory, and flash the BIOS and you will
> have a
> screaming machine.
>
> What a bunch of shit that is.
>
> Ardell Faul
> Computer Monitor Service Inc.
> Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
> 10816 E. Mission Ave.,
> Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
> ardell@...
> 509-891-5188
>
>
>
> kiyer25 wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > My 80 GB 7200 rpm internal hard drive (hitachi) died
> (just 3 year and 1
> > month). I would like to buy a internal hard drive
> which is reliable and
> > best one with reasonable price as well.
> >
> > I am looking for 160 GB with 5400 or 7200 hard drive.
> >
> > It is IDE 2.5, ata 100, 8MB buffer. Really appreciate
> suggestion and
> > any inputs to buy a new approbriate internal hard
> drive for my DELL800.
> >
> > Thanks a lot
> >
> > cheers
> > kris
> >
> >
>
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