I emailed them if it would be compatible with my old trusty Inspiron 7000.
They said it would work but they have not tested the specific model on my notebook. They said that the common incompatibility is the bios limit of 32 GB in old laptops. They say that there are remedies for this including a bios flash , etc....
Has anyone tried using an above 32 GB hard drive on an old dell laptop model?
Message Edited by herbolaryo on 11-02-2004 02:37 PM
I installed a Hitachi 7k60 in my old I7000 just a month ago. Works a treat! It does have a noticeable benefit in reducing waiting time for hard drive access as one might expect. No incompatibility issues at all.
Its nice to hear a feedback from inspiron 7000 users also ...
So Oceandrv are you using windows xp home or prof ?
Did you update the bios from the dell download?
You didn't see missing gigabytes? (meaning the 60 gig is really 60 gig???)
I'm using Windows XP Pro on my trusty old I7000 - it has a PII400 (the PIII500 CPU home upgrade died after about a year - long story best left in the past) with 512Mb of RAM.
I bought a new laptop recently with a 7K60 drive and was very impressed by the speed of disk access; which is why I went and bought one for my I7000. The properties sheet in Windows Explorer shows: Capacity 60,003,868,672 bytes 55.8Gb. So no, there is no bios limitation which prevents the full capacity from being available.
Tried the 7K60 bios flash update from Dell downloads - on running the flash programme, it reported something to the effect like "update not required for this unit".
Incidentally, in trying to reduce system overhead, I replaced Norton Antivirus 2004 with AVG 7.0. Made a big difference! NAV 2004 is pretty resource hungry in comparison to AVG 7.0. I don't know if AVG 7.0 is going to be reliable enough in the long term, but I'm living with it for now.
With regards to your not so fortunate upgrade of CPU... I did not know that CPU can be upgraded in a notebook... I don't know much about hardware but I guess it is attainable. In any case... Many new software does require a higher CPU... So if I can find a inexpensive fix then that be great. I know you have a bad experience. But as they say... We learn from experience... Although it is History... Learning History makes us not repeat the mistakes of the past...
I would appreciate it if you can tell your CPU upgrade experience...
I been trying to find the 7K60 bios flash update you mentioned but having a hard time. Could you kindly post a link for this...
The only down side is the drive access light will remain on all the time, instead of just during hard drive activity. Something to do with a new spec expecting a lower drive voltage to save power. I7000 is too old to meet that.
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October 30th, 2004 18:00
Yes, but the E7K60 is a Server drive, meant to run continuous. I would purchase (I did already) the 7K60. It's more suited for notebooks.
herbolaryo
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November 2nd, 2004 18:00
I saw the Travelstar7K60 at the following link.
http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/hgst/?epi_menuItemID=1ae1841f0c9f113aa5a8f2b6aac4f0a0&epi_menuID=0f34be57a7adb6fd25ad4e8060e4f0a0&epi_baseMenuID=22f0deefa8f3967dafa0466460e4f0a0
I emailed them if it would be compatible with my old trusty Inspiron 7000.
They said it would work but they have not tested the specific model on my notebook. They said that the common incompatibility is the bios limit of 32 GB in old laptops. They say that there are remedies for this including a bios flash , etc....
Has anyone tried using an above 32 GB hard drive on an old dell laptop model?
Message Edited by herbolaryo on 11-02-2004 02:37 PM
Oceandrv
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November 5th, 2004 22:00
herbolaryo
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November 6th, 2004 04:00
Its nice to hear a feedback from inspiron 7000 users also ...
So Oceandrv are you using windows xp home or prof ?
Did you update the bios from the dell download?
You didn't see missing gigabytes? (meaning the 60 gig is really 60 gig???)
Oceandrv
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November 7th, 2004 22:00
I'm using Windows XP Pro on my trusty old I7000 - it has a PII400 (the PIII500 CPU home upgrade died after about a year - long story best left in the past) with 512Mb of RAM.
I bought a new laptop recently with a 7K60 drive and was very impressed by the speed of disk access; which is why I went and bought one for my I7000. The properties sheet in Windows Explorer shows: Capacity 60,003,868,672 bytes 55.8Gb. So no, there is no bios limitation which prevents the full capacity from being available.
Tried the 7K60 bios flash update from Dell downloads - on running the flash programme, it reported something to the effect like "update not required for this unit".
Incidentally, in trying to reduce system overhead, I replaced Norton Antivirus 2004 with AVG 7.0. Made a big difference! NAV 2004 is pretty resource hungry in comparison to AVG 7.0. I don't know if AVG 7.0 is going to be reliable enough in the long term, but I'm living with it for now.
Good luck!
herbolaryo
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November 8th, 2004 00:00
With regards to your not so fortunate upgrade of CPU... I did not know that CPU can be upgraded in a notebook... I don't know much about hardware but I guess it is attainable. In any case... Many new software does require a higher CPU... So if I can find a inexpensive fix then that be great. I know you have a bad experience. But as they say... We learn from experience... Although it is History... Learning History makes us not repeat the mistakes of the past...
I would appreciate it if you can tell your CPU upgrade experience...
I been trying to find the 7K60 bios flash update you mentioned but having a hard time. Could you kindly post a link for this...
Oceandrv
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November 10th, 2004 01:00
Try here:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/type.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&SystemID=INS_PNT_P4M_8600&category=0&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=4949&devlib=26
If that doesn't work, go to:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn
and search for this term:
HGST HTS726060M9AT00 (60gb) Mobile HDD
Randall_Streich
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November 14th, 2004 19:00