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HP Pavilion DV6000 Laptop Hard Drive
Hey Guys..I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 with a 120GB hard drive in it.
I am starting to do a little music recording, and my hard drive isn't fast enough. 7200 rpm's is the recommended speed for what I am trying to do. Does anyone know if I can add a second hard drive to my laptop? Or can I just use the one..I know I have the option of replacing the existing one in the computer now..but it would be nice if I could just add another! Thanks..any help is appreciated! Allen |
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HP Pavilion DV6000 Laptop Hard Drive
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:43:48 -0800 (PST), apyankeefan
wrote: Hey Guys..I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 with a 120GB hard drive in it. I am starting to do a little music recording, and my hard drive isn't fast enough. What kind of recording? Something advanced with several tracks or just 2 channel stereo/etc? You might benchmark your drive to see what it's capable of. 7200 rpm's is the recommended speed for what I am trying to do. Does anyone know if I can add a second hard drive to my laptop? Or can I just use the one..I know I have the option of replacing the existing one in the computer now..but it would be nice if I could just add another! Thanks..any help is appreciated! Allen If the specs don't mention it, you probably can't add a second hard drive. They don't generally have a 2nd bay for one, though sometimes an optical drive caddy can be replaced with one for a hard drive. Check your notebook manual, it will tell you if this is the case. Otherwise it is most likely you have to replace the current drive. If you were trying to concurrently use the system for something else while recording the music, that might be a different problem of concurrent access to the HDD, and in that case if you determine the data rate you need you might compare that against what you could get from a USB external drive, IF having it external is an option. Also you don't mention the total size of the music files, but if they'd fit on a USB thumbdrive (or SD flash card if you had a slot, then it might be handier to keep in the notebook all the time) at a reasonable price-point, that too could be an option... though as I mentioned above we don't know enough about your needs, nor what your recording application is capable of or how much spare CPU time your use allows, as it could even be possible to record to a compressed format in realtime to reduce the data rate written to the drive, a lossless compression format if it needs to be. For example, http://flac.sourceforge.net/ |
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apyankeefan wrote:
Hey Guys..I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 with a 120GB hard drive in it. I am starting to do a little music recording, and my hard drive isn't fast enough. 7200 rpm's is the recommended speed for what I am trying to do. Does anyone know if I can add a second hard drive to my laptop? Or can I just use the one..I know I have the option of replacing the existing one in the computer now..but it would be nice if I could just add another! Thanks..any help is appreciated! Allen You're in luck. You have an Expresscard slot. In terms of transfer rate and performance, from top down, the options would be ESATA, Firewire800, Firewire400, USB2, and there is also Gigabit Ethernet to a NAS box, but that could be relatively slow compared to local storage. (A lot of NAS boxes for home use, suck.) This plugs into your Expresscard slot, and gives two ESATA ports. That interface standard, is the same one the disk drive uses. It will run the disk at full rate, with none of the overheads of the other standards. Chip used is SIL3132. AFAIK, the SIL3132 even supports port multiplier boxes, so you could control more drives with a $100 port multiplier box connected to this. BYTECC BT- ECES2 SATAII ExpressCard 2 x SATA - Retail $27 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16839229001 This is an example of an external SATA hard drive enclosure. It is hard to find enclosures that are kind to hard drives, and Newegg doesn't have anything better than this one for a SATA only enclosure. (SATA only, means that you're talking directly to the drive, and not to an adapter chip inside the enclosure.) "PPA 1936 Aluminum 3.5" SATA External Enclosure - Retail" $24 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817155223 You can find a lot more enclosures, that offer both ESATA and USB interfaces on the back. This one is an example. One person's review claims 51.8MB/sec on the ESATA interface, so I don't know if that is flowing through an internal adapter chip, or is getting to access the drive directly. They measured the USB option and got about 15MB/sec. Both numbers are a little on the low side, where ESATA sustained should be media limited at 60-70MB/sec, and USB2 protocol overhead limited to around the 30-35MB/sec mark. Mapower Map-AE31FSCSJ-01-H-0 Aluminum 3.5" Black USB 2.0 & eSATA External $36 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817387029 Finding a SATA drive to put in the enclosure, should be relatively painless. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148262 Paul |
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kony wrote:
apyankeefan wrote: Hey Guys..I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 with a 120GB hard drive in it. I am starting to do a little music recording, and my hard drive isn't fast enough. What kind of recording? Something advanced with several tracks or just 2 channel stereo/etc? You might benchmark your drive to see what it's capable of. If "other things" are the problem, you might consider a more efficient OS. Installing Ubuntu is quick, free, and easy. Try ubuntu.com. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net) http://cbfalconer.home.att.net Try the download section. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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On Dec 13, 10:20 pm, Paul wrote:
apyankeefan wrote: Hey Guys..I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 with a 120GB hard drive in it. I am starting to do a little music recording, and my hard drive isn't fast enough. 7200 rpm's is the recommended speed for what I am trying to do. Does anyone know if I can add a second hard drive to my laptop? Or can I just use the one..I know I have the option of replacing the existing one in the computer now..but it would be nice if I could just add another! Thanks..any help is appreciated! Allen You're in luck. You have an Expresscard slot. In terms of transfer rate and performance, from top down, the options would be ESATA, Firewire800, Firewire400, USB2, and there is also Gigabit Ethernet to a NAS box, but that could be relatively slow compared to local storage. (A lot of NAS boxes for home use, suck.) This plugs into your Expresscard slot, and gives two ESATA ports. That interface standard, is the same one the disk drive uses. It will run the disk at full rate, with none of the overheads of the other standards. Chip used is SIL3132. AFAIK, the SIL3132 even supports port multiplier boxes, so you could control more drives with a $100 port multiplier box connected to this. BYTECC BT- ECES2 SATAII ExpressCard 2 x SATA - Retail $27http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16839229001 This is an example of an external SATA hard drive enclosure. It is hard to find enclosures that are kind to hard drives, and Newegg doesn't have anything better than this one for a SATA only enclosure. (SATA only, means that you're talking directly to the drive, and not to an adapter chip inside the enclosure.) "PPA 1936 Aluminum 3.5" SATA External Enclosure - Retail" $24http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817155223 You can find a lot more enclosures, that offer both ESATA and USB interfaces on the back. This one is an example. One person's review claims 51.8MB/sec on the ESATA interface, so I don't know if that is flowing through an internal adapter chip, or is getting to access the drive directly. They measured the USB option and got about 15MB/sec. Both numbers are a little on the low side, where ESATA sustained should be media limited at 60-70MB/sec, and USB2 protocol overhead limited to around the 30-35MB/sec mark. Mapower Map-AE31FSCSJ-01-H-0 Aluminum 3.5" Black USB 2.0 & eSATA External $36http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817387029 Finding a SATA drive to put in the enclosure, should be relatively painless. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148262 Paul Thanks for all the help..I really appreciate it! I'll look into it some more..thanks again! Allen |
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HP Pavilion DV6000 Laptop Hard Drive
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:17:45 -0500, CBFalconer
wrote: kony wrote: apyankeefan wrote: Hey Guys..I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 with a 120GB hard drive in it. I am starting to do a little music recording, and my hard drive isn't fast enough. What kind of recording? Something advanced with several tracks or just 2 channel stereo/etc? You might benchmark your drive to see what it's capable of. If "other things" are the problem, you might consider a more efficient OS. Installing Ubuntu is quick, free, and easy. Try ubuntu.com. Unfortunately with a laptop the drivers might be more of a problem. It's also doubtful any OS change will matter so long as the system isn't concurrently being used for something else, as a singular task straight audio write to the HDD is pretty much HDD limited unless there is some compression of the audio data but on the other hand if the HDD is the bottleneck then using some spare CPU cycles to compress the data could be the ideal *free* solution to the problem, as well as not taking up so much HDD space to store it all. |
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HP Pavilion DV6000 Laptop Hard Drive
apyankeefan wrote:
Hey Guys..I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 with a 120GB hard drive in it. I am starting to do a little music recording, and my hard drive isn't fast enough. 7200 rpm's is the recommended speed for what I am trying to do. Does anyone know if I can add a second hard drive to my laptop? Or can I just use the one..I know I have the option of replacing the existing one in the computer now..but it would be nice if I could just add another! Thanks..any help is appreciated! Laptops are ALWAYS slower than desktops. -- http://www.bootdisk.com/ |
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