Vertigo Wrote:Just wondering, if i buy a new bigger hard drive, will my laptop run somewhat faster?

And will it somewhat get less hot? (when it was working, it went up to 70F)

Run faster, probably yes.  Newer and larger HDDs tend to be faster.  Though you probably can't notice the difference for normal windows use.

Less hot, don't know, depends on the drive, but probably hotter.  But for laptops, it's probably your CPU/GPU and crappy ventilation making it hot anyway, a HDD by itself doesn't get all that hot.

And according to some web calculator, 70F = 21C, which is pretty damn cold actually, I'd be way happy if all my stuff stayed at 21C.

ProperBritish Wrote:hit the laptop above where the hard drive is

might knock it back and spin up

my laptop did that once while it was in windows lol i just gave it a smack and it worked again

Lol.  Don't hit it too hard.

HDDs are quite fragile, a small drop, and you get a very high likelihood of breaking.

(This post was last modified: 08/03/2010 04:32 PM by Assassinator.)