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Have a 2006-era laptop with a 60Gb of the exact same model where the HDD went bad. Heat kills HDD's and my bet is this laptop, while a pretty good runner, is also a bit hot. This HDD has 80Gb of space and the required ATA-6 connection style. I haven't notice ANY disk related speed problems with the laptop, which reflects well on the Hitachi Travelstar. It's getting a bit difficult to find replacement ATA-6 interfaces in retail; fortunately e-bay still has a lot of new OEM replacement offerings. SATA has taken over everywhere. Cache matters, and 8 Mb may not seem like a lot, but on a smaller drive, you don't need as much.
This drive takes about five minutes to install, just remove the four screws that hold the old drive in. Remove the adapter if needed (on a hp pavilion laptop it's needed!) place adapter on this new drive and replace the four screws. The longest part of the whole thing was reinstalling the software. Once that was finished the laptop was like brand new! a great buy if your antivirus software can't remove a nasty virus or your drive is just old and not as responsive as it once was.
My Toshiba laptop didn't boot up one day and I determined that my 80GB hard drive had died. I searched for a replacement 80GB drive and this one appeared. The price was reasonable so I proceeded to purchase it. I installed it in my laptop and it worked just fine EXCEPT that it wasn't an 80GB as specified in the listing. It was a 20GB drive! I was not pleased, but since I needed to get my laptop operational as soon as possible, I begrudgingly kept it and reloaded my applications, taking caution not to overload the drive since I now only have 25% of the capacity I had expected, and paid for.
I purchased this drive for a laptop that is about 11 years old, and it was easy to install, easy to set up and worked like a charm. The Hitachi Travelstar is the superstar or laptop drives. It usually is a little more pricey than other drives, but it makes it up in reliability. Even refurbished drives would be an adequate purchase. I recommend this brand for an upgrade hands down.
1. Have 2 old Sony Celeron 40GB Vista laptops. The first was succesfuly upgraded to Hitachi Travelstar 80GB HDD bought from Comp USA. 2. Got fool by cheaper price on eBay, this HDD was listed as NEW, but it was actually used and defected. When booted in first attempt to install, the screen showed "This HDD was erased !! 2011/11/20 22:42:38 - Please power off". And totally DEAD! 3. This is a knock off, dishonest manner. I never buy anything like this on eBay again. You get what you paid for...
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