A215M - replacement hard drive - query

[samthoma0]

Dear Forum/Engineers/Sony Experts,

Recently my hard drive on the A215M died, out of warranty, in Northern Brazil. It was a 60GB hard drive and I am considering replacing it with a 100GB drive. I am wondering if anyone out there could give me some advice and details on exactly what criteria I should be following in order to choose the correct and appropriate drive to put into the notebook.

If there is any criteria that involve noise & speed , I would really like to know of them, as those are two important things for me. Otherwise just simply what is it that I am looking for, any particular brand, size, speed, etc, would be really useful as I have absolutely no idea.

Many thanks for your help.
Bomba

[Blencogo]

Hi bomba,

Any modern 2.5 inch ATA drive will work - you can get these up to 160GB these days. The 7,200 rpm drives are the quickest but do tend to be a bit noisy - most people find a 5,400 rpm drive a good compromise between speed and noise.

Try a Google for Seagate Momentus or Hitachi Travelstar - these are two of the most popular drives.

[samthoma0]

Dear Blencogo

Many thanks for advice, will see what I can do. Supplies are short in this part of the world... (Belém, Mouth of the Amazon)

Bomba

[Blencogo]

Good luck Bomba.

Some Sony parts are pretty scarce in the UK too!

Watch out for the Pirranah!