Hitachi 7K60 and Dell C810

Just replaced the 4200RPM 10GB original disk with a Hitachi 7K60
TravelStar 7200RPM 8mb Cache 60GB Hard drive in my PIII-M Tualatin
C810 laptop (operating under UDMA-5, the disk however is capable of
UDMA-6)

The performance increase is staggering. Everything seems to run at
twice the former speed.

This system now performs on par with a P-IV class laptop, I can even
defragment the disk with Norton Speed Disk AND browse the web at the
same time. I can't even begin to saturate the I/O.

SISoft Sandra reports average access times of 8ms and throughput of
17.5mb/sec. Outstanding.

All credit to Hitachi for producing what is a genuine first rate
product.