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(a definite plus in my laptop).The difference in speed is not noticeable in most tasks, and the drive runs almost silently. It runs cooler than the 7200rpm, 100GB Hitachi drive, that it replaced. Since it hasn't failed in the 4 weeks I've owned it, I can say that, to this point, the drive does what it was designed to do, and does it well. It was getting increasingly difficult to find large capacity ATA100 hard drives. This 5400rpm 320GB was the largest I was able to find.
Too bad the selection of EIDE drives (both HD and SSD) are limited and more expensive, but it you want to make an older notebook usable longer, upgrading an older drive is a great way to bring "new life" to it. I upgraded a 30GB Hitachi drive (made in 2002 I think) in an older Pentium III Sony Vaio notebook with the 120GB version of the EIDE Scorpio Blue drive and it made a noticeable improvement in speed. I copied the old disk using Acronis True Image (had to "fix" the MBR with MbrFix.exe to get it to boot) and it worked great.
A good upgrade for cheap on old laptops. Boot time is quicker and the extra space is nice. Installed with no problems into my old T41 Thinkpad. Runs quiet and smooth compared to the worn-out drive it replaced.
Delivery was on time and product was as promised. The HDD works as promised no frills but then a replacement doesn't need frills.
Purchased about a month ago and no issues to date. Drive is much quieter and faster than the old one. Simple installation. Replaced an aging hard drive with this one.
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