Samsung spin point

jon76

jon76

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Hi all, I recently bought a hard drive for a laptop, as far as I can see it's working okay, but when I rest my hand on the laptop, I can feel the hard drive rumbling through my hand, I have never noticed this before, is this normal? I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I did actually managed to swap the hard drive over with the laptop still on, as I went out and when I got back my step daughter had left the laptop on, I didn't notice this or check as I assumed it would be off. First time I have made such a stupid mistake.
 
Did you replace the rubber standoffs that the HDD sits on with some models?
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AntimatterAsh said:
Did you replace the rubber standoffs that the HDD sits on with some models?
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Hmm, not seen them before, new to laptops, I didn't replace them, it didn't come with any, however this is the third hard drive that has been in this laptop and the first time I have had this problem, but thanks, when I get time later I will have a look
 
Most oem hard drives are 5400 RPM, did you replace it with a 7200 rpm drive? If so, you may notice some increased vibration.
 
Yes its 5,400 rpm. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B004V88E7S?l=Product Details&pd=1

Get an SSD in there and put the other drive into a small USB 3 chassis as a backup storage. Leave it connected as a backup array.

Wipe it with dariks boot n nuke burnt to a cd (it will destroy all data on all connected drives)
Return it under warranty
Buy this SSD and get no vibration and infinitely better laptop performance and battery life.
 
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Hmm, I hadn't even considered ssd as I heard they were unreliable, people have said on a desktop to get one for windows and programs and have a standard one for everything else, but thinking about it I don't have much important stuff on the laptop anyway as it's all on the desktop, not a bad plan, thanks
 
jon76 said:
Hmm, I hadn't even considered ssd as I heard they were unreliable, people have said on a desktop to get one for windows and programs and have a standard one for everything else, but thinking about it I don't have much important stuff on the laptop anyway as it's all on the desktop, not a bad plan, thanks
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Well. I can say that it is not true about all SSD being unreliable. It depend on quality of technology. Not all of brand SSD to be trusted.
 
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