Jim Showalter wrote:
> Mike O'Connor wrote:
>   
>> Jon Harrison wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:32:49 -0700, Jim Showalter wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Can any drive which meets the above criteria probably
replace my drive, 
>>>> which I can probably find for one heck of a lot less?
>>>>         
>>> I bought a Seagate ST3500641A, 500gb, for $118.  It's ATA-100.
>>> Works well w/ Dani's latest drivers.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>       
>> Hi Jon, Jim,
>>
>> In view of the 2.5" disk mentioned and 4200PRM, I had assumed this was 
>> for a Compaq Presario Laptop
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>
>>     
>
> Mike and Jon,
>
> My computer is a laptop. Should have mentioned that in my original query.
>
> Reading the reviews of the Hitachi Travelstar 80GB that Mike pointed to, 
> it appears that others have replaced a 4200 RPM drive with this 7200 rpm 
> in their laptops with no problems.
>
> Is there any possibility that the BIOS may have a problem with the change?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>   
Change of disk rotational speed should not require any changes to bios 
or drivers (assuming it has the same interface).

In fact going from 4200rpm to 5400 or even 7200 as appear to have found, 
is one of the most effective ways in my opinion of improving system 
performance !

Cheers/2

Ed.


 
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