Laptop Hard Drives

Laptops look like small notebooks or large notebooks which are only about 0.7 to 1.5 inches thick, and it has a size ranging from 10 x 8 inches to 15x11 inches and up. Most modern laptops weigh about 4 to 12 pounds. The older models were much heavier.

A subnotebook is a laptop designed with a long life battery. It is commonly lighter and smaller than usual laptops, weighing about 0.8 kilograms to 2 kilograms. Its battery life can exceed approximately 10 hours.

The notebook is another classification of an energy-efficient laptop, economical, lightweight and optimized for wireless Internet access. It is mainly designed for e-mailing and web browsing. Notebooks have a wide variety of light-weight operating system such as Windows XP and Linux.

Most laptop hard drives are normally smaller, about 2.5 inches or 1.8 inches as compared to desktops with 3.5 inch hard drives. The more recent models are more expensive but are lighter, power-efficient and have faster hard drives. 260 to 320 GB sizes are the current usual sizes for laptop hard drives now. Most of these drives are easy to install because both the hard drive and the laptop are smaller as compared to a desktop.

Installing a New Laptop Hard Drive

Back up your important files. If you are changing an existing hard drive and it is still functioning, back up all import files stored on the hard drive.

Turn off your laptop and unplug the cord. Find the slot that homes the hard drive, then remove all screws that connects it to the slot cover. Then, smoothly pull out the hard drive. The laptop hard drive is enclosed in a sled form housing linked to the slot cover.

Remove the old laptop hard drive from the laptop and attach the new laptop hard drive. Restore the sled screw but do not over-tighten it. Align the new hard drive pins with connector in the laptop, then slide the new hard drive into the slot and then restore the cover.

Restart the laptop and follow the instructions in user manuals to enter the system's BIOS. If the new laptop hard drive is properly installed, it will be recognize by BIOS. Load the operating system disk into the DVD or CD drive, reboot the laptop and then follow the directions on the screen and then install the operating system. Once the operating system is installed, move your important files to the new laptop hard drive.

Types of Laptop Hard Drives

IBM Laptop Hard Drive 60GB

The IBM Laptop 60GB hard drive is an internal hard drive. This hard drive offers sufficient capacity for portable video editing and recording with efficient-power consumption as compared to the traditional 3.5 inch hard drives. This hard drive also provides great storage for a variety of consumer and commercial notebooks as well as non-PC applications including MP3 players, GPS system, copier, printers and PDAs.

Apricorn 80GB Internal Notebook Hard Drive

This 80GB internal hard drive demands a high performance and a reliable storage system. It has rotational speed of 5400rpm and the seek time is 13 ms average. This hard drive features an OEM equivalent; free live technical support and high capacity.

Fujitsu 80GB Hard Drive 50PK

The Fujitsu 80GB Hard Drive 50PK is an internal laptop hard drive that features high reliability, high performance, read ahead cache and write reordering cache. The FDB spindle motor of this hard drive is incorporated for quiet operation.