Programs: CO Plat, CO Million Miler, Priority Club Plat, HHonours Gold
Posts: 85
I haven't been much above sea level yet with my four-day old 1000HE. I did check the drive and have found that it's a Hitachi. I'll post if any in-flight anomalies are noted, but as of the moment I'm not scheduled to be back in the air until late August (after making CO Plat in mid-June, time for a rest).
I have also had a lot of success with Seagate EE25.2 Extreme HDD's. They are not cheap but they are very rugged (18K feet, 85C, amazing shock & vibe etc.), the only downside is that they only go to 80GB. I have one of these in a tablet PC I use on my own plane, where I routinely fly at 10-12K ft. The other day the Toshiba tablet was working fine on the ramp at the airport where the OAT on the ramp was 42C(107F) and hotter than that in the plane (yes me and my passenger were melting, ah I love TX summers). It helps that the tablet has 4GB of high temp memory, a very low power Core 2 Duo and the EE25.2 (yes it was pimped for the purpose). CPU temps were in the mid 90's C, which is under max spec.
I've got an X25-M in my laptop, and loved it since I put it in.
I just swapped in my "clean" drive for international travel, and miss the speed, silence and lack of a warm front left corner that I got with the SSD
OTOH, it costs about as much as the cheaper netbooks ($325 on Amazon when I got it a month or two ago, don't think it's dropped much if any sense) and for those netbooks that need a 1.8" model the X18-M is slightly pricier.
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