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From: wj777x on 6 Apr 2008 06:59
I need to replace a 2.5" notebook drive. I can just purchase another
2.5" drive, or there's the possibility of getting a 1.8" drive and a
2.5" - to - 1.8" drive adapter. What II'm curious to know is if anyone
knows to what degree the 1.8" drives are quieter than the 2.5" drives.
They all seem to run at 4200 rpms, so I would think the smaller moter
and platter would make for a quieter drive. The problem is this is
just an assumption. I've looked for dB ratings for the smaller drives
but haven't found any as of yet.

If anyone has any dB info or any personal experience with these two
different size drives, I'd appreciate your sharing this knowledge.

Thank you.

William
From: Tim_Mac on 8 Apr 2008 17:49
hi william. bear in mind that a 4200 drive will give even more
miserable performance than a 5400 drive. although it should be
marginally quieter. a 10k raptor drive in comparison is a bit of a
tiger.
i've just swapped out my mechanical drive and replaced it with an 8Gb
compact flash card + IDE adaptor. the laptop is now totally silent
except for the quiet fan, and the performance benefit is amazing,
vista boots in about 15 seconds and programs load and close
instantly. vLite enabled a 2Gb vista installation and i don't need a
whole of software on the laptop anyway (office, visual studio, sql
server etc) so it has turned out great. thought you may be interested
if you want to reduce noise. getting rid of the hard drive should
also extend battery life, but i accept that not everyone will be happy
with such limited storage space. you could get a cheap 8 or 16 Gb USB
drive to help. a guide to the steps i took is online at
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=219225

tim

On Apr 6, 11:59 am, wj7...(a)netscape.net wrote:
> I need to replace a 2.5" notebook drive. I can just purchase another
> 2.5" drive, or there's the possibility of getting a 1.8" drive and a
> 2.5" - to - 1.8" drive adapter. What II'm curious to know is if anyone
> knows to what degree the 1.8" drives are quieter than the 2.5" drives.
> They all seem to run at 4200 rpms, so I would think the smaller moter
> and platter would make for a quieter drive. The problem is this is
> just an assumption. I've looked for dB ratings for the smaller drives
> but haven't found any as of yet.
>
> If anyone has any dB info or any personal experience with these two
> different size drives, I'd appreciate your sharing this knowledge.
>
> Thank you.
>
> William

From: wj777x on 10 Apr 2008 12:21
Tim,

Thanks for your post. A Flash drive is a great idea, but I need more
space as the 2.5 laptop drive has been used in a desktop unit for its
relative quietness compared to a regular 3.5" drive. So I guess I'll
stay with another 2.5" drive.

Thanks again.

William

On Apr 8, 5:49 pm, Tim_Mac <timm...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> hi william. bear in mind that a 4200 drive will give even more
> miserable performance than a 5400 drive. although it should be
> m++arginally quieter. a 10k raptor drive in comparison is a bit of a
> tiger.
> i've just swapped out my mechanical drive and repla+ced it with an 8Gb
> compact flash card + IDE adaptor. the laptop is now totally silent
> except for the quiet fan, and the performance benefit is amazing,
> vista boots in about 15 seconds and programs load and close
> instantly. vLite enabled a 2Gb vista installation and i don't need a
> whole of software on the laptop anyway (office, visual studio, sql
> server etc) so it has turned out great. thought you may be interested
> if you want to reduce noise. getting rid of the hard drive should
> also extend battery life, but i accept that not everyone will be happy
> with such limited storage space. you could get a cheap 8 or 16 Gb USB
> drive to help. a guide to the steps i took is online athttp://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=219225
>
> tim

From: John Turco on 11 Apr 2008 07:10
Tim_Mac wrote:

<edited for brevity>

> i've just swapped out my mechanical drive and replaced it with an 8Gb
> compact flash card + IDE adaptor. the laptop is now totally silent
> except for the quiet fan, and the performance benefit is amazing,
> vista boots in about 15 seconds and programs load and close
> instantly. vLite enabled a 2Gb vista installation and i don't need a
> whole of software on the laptop anyway (office, visual studio, sql
> server etc) so it has turned out great. thought you may be interested
> if you want to reduce noise. getting rid of the hard drive should
> also extend battery life, but i accept that not everyone will be happy
> with such limited storage space. you could get a cheap 8 or 16 Gb USB
> drive to help. a guide to the steps i took is online at
> http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=219225

<edited>

Hello, Tim:

I followed the link you've provided, above...still, I'd be concerned about
flash memory's relatively limited number of rewrite cycles (approximately
100,000, typically), if I were you.

Good luck!


Cordially,
John Turco <jtur(a)concentric.net>
From: JW on 11 Apr 2008 09:37
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:10:58 -0500 John Turco <jtur(a)concentric.net> wrote
in Message id: <47FF4742.D30883(a)concentric.net>:

>Tim_Mac wrote:
>
><edited for brevity>
>
>> i've just swapped out my mechanical drive and replaced it with an 8Gb
>> compact flash card + IDE adaptor. the laptop is now totally silent
>> except for the quiet fan, and the performance benefit is amazing,
>> vista boots in about 15 seconds and programs load and close
>> instantly. vLite enabled a 2Gb vista installation and i don't need a
>> whole of software on the laptop anyway (office, visual studio, sql
>> server etc) so it has turned out great. thought you may be interested
>> if you want to reduce noise. getting rid of the hard drive should
>> also extend battery life, but i accept that not everyone will be happy
>> with such limited storage space. you could get a cheap 8 or 16 Gb USB
>> drive to help. a guide to the steps i took is online at
>> http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=219225
>
><edited>
>
>Hello, Tim:
>
>I followed the link you've provided, above...still, I'd be concerned about
>flash memory's relatively limited number of rewrite cycles (approximately
>100,000, typically), if I were you.

Some industrial flash is good for 2 million writes. Combine that with wear
leveling this is not as bad as you might think. We've shipped over a
thousand XP embedded systems on CF in the last few years, and I've yet to
see a drive wear out.
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