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John S.

John S.

Joined on 01/28/06

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review
Hitachi GST Travelstar 5K100 HTS541080G9AT00 (13G1584) 80GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 2.5" Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive
Hitachi GST Travelstar 5K100 HTS541080G9AT00 (13G1584) 80GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 2.5" Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Good price.

Cons: Like most laptop drives running under linux, thhis drive makes a clicking sound due to agressive apm, annoying and somewhat bothersome, but eliminated by issuing hdparm -B 254 /dev/hdx early during bootup, and returning to the default hdparm -B 128, -B 159 just prior to poweroff.

Most Critical Review

idle clicking noise worse than other drives

Fujitsu MHV2080AH 80GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 2.5" Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive
Fujitsu MHV2080AH 80GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 2.5" Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: None for this product...but don't get me wrong, Newegg is one of the best, if not the best place for online computer hardware.

Cons: I bought this for use on a linux system, but the spindown/idle clicks were just too much. I have fugitsu, western digital, and hitachi drives, and they all have this annoying click. On all others issueing hdparm -B 254 /dev/hdx works, but not on this one...(the clicking is significantly louder for this one as well). So, I returned it for a comparable hitachi drive.