The HP ProBook 5310m Owners' Club

[Charles P. Jefferies]

I'm looking into swapping hard drives and getting something quieter. My system came with the 320GB Seagate drive. I was thinking about getting a 500GB WD Scorpio Blue which costs about $55 with free shipping. Is this a good choice? Is there another 2.5" hard drive you guys would recommend which is quieter and performs better? Also, would swapping hard drives void the manufacturers warranty? I also got an extended 2 year SquareTrade warranty so I'm not sure if it would affect that warranty too.

The standard Seagate 320GB 7200.4 drive is quite noisy, it has a high level of ambient noise -- as in, when you turn it off you can hear a noticeable decrease in noise. It also has a lot of vibration. And on top of all that, performance is so-so. It's a good idea to replace it.

I have a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB (WD5000BEVT) and it is very quiet. However, performance is meh since it's a 5400RPM drive -- I think it is a bit slower in general use than the standard 7200RPM drive. If you are looking for a great 5400RPM drive, the Seagate 5400.7 640GB is supposedly the best out there -- quite fast and lots of storage.

For 7200RPM (which I recommend for performance reasons), I would point you to a Western Digital Scorpio Black 500GB (WD5000BEKT) or Hitachi 7K500. I have the 7K500 in my 5310m and it is an excellent performer. It is quieter than the Seagate that came with the notebook and has very little vibration; a win-win in my book.

[Gainiac]

I must little redo my previous post, in that sense that I have newer line from Hitachi, exactly Z7K320, which is only 7mm thick. Otherwise is working splendidly, with more place for the rubber.

@PapaPrem
Thus this is the one which I can recommend. And generally SSD drives are very good and are getting cheaper every day. Take a look on these two Kingston SSD V+ and Kingston SSD V

The 5.4 drives are very slow for this notebook, I would like to argue you out of them If you insist on the capacity get 7K500 as Charles said.

Note: For WD drives the acoustic mode can be controlled via WinAAM, it requires restart of the system and then you will be able to switch them into Silent Mode. For original Seagate or Z7K320 this is not possible.

Question, anybody here have any experience with some screen protector for this notebook?
(Not for keyboard, I know about this one and don't need it. Would like to protect screen only. )

[Charles P. Jefferies]

I must little redo my previous post, in that sense that I have newer line from Hitachi, exactly Z7K320, which is only 7mm thick. Otherwise is working splendidly, with more place for the rubber.

Wow, that's a neat hard drive. Where did you get it?

Also, if possible could you run CrystalDiskMark and post a screenshot of the results?
CrystalDiskMark - Software - Crystal Dew World

[unmesh]

I'm having a weird problem and was wondering if anyone on this thread has experienced this.

My machine is sitting on a desk for a couple of hours and I move it before attempting to use it; the touchpad stops responding for several seconds and, in some cases, will not respond even after several minutes. The workaround in that case is to put the machine into standby and then resume.

I thought the first part might have to do with HP's drive protection scheme but have no evidence for that belief.

Thanks.

[Charles P. Jefferies]

I have not experienced that problem. On a similar note, when I come out of standby it takes a couple of seconds before the keyboard and touchpad work. I have seen that on other systems but it is very pronounced on the 5310m.

What BIOS are you using? Try updating to the latest and see if that fixes your issue.

[Gainiac]

Wow, that's a neat hard drive. Where did you get it?CrystalDiskMark - Software - Crystal Dew World

From our company, cause we're selling hardware. There shoudn't be a problem to getting it worldwide too.
Here they are normally in distribution - which is in the Czech Republic.



I executed three tests with disabled internet, explorer,firewall and hp related services. Avg. results are:

Seq Read 88.61 ___ Write 86,28
512K __ 29,77 ___ 34,32
4K ____ 0,352 ___ 0,720
4KQD32 _ 0,674 ___ 0,640
Settings were 5/1000MB

Also I noticed, that when idle it's whistling. Looks like some windows setting but have no idea which one cause that curse?

Is there another thread with more drives to draw a comparsion?

[Charles P. Jefferies]

There is actually a whole thread going on your hard drive:
Hitachi Z7K320 Single Platter 320GB 7200RPM 7mm Hard Drive
It's a pretty fast drive.

Whistling sound . . . that is probably the sound of the platter spinning. Not much you can do about that I'm afraid. It wouldn't hurt to ask in the thread I linked, though -- Phil would know.

[unmesh]

I have not experienced that problem. On a similar note, when I come out of standby it takes a couple of seconds before the keyboard and touchpad work. I have seen that on other systems but it is very pronounced on the 5310m.

What BIOS are you using? Try updating to the latest and see if that fixes your issue.

BIOS is F.0A which seems to be the latest.

[jbtibor]

I'm having a weird problem and was wondering if anyone on this thread has experienced this.

My machine is sitting on a desk for a couple of hours and I move it before attempting to use it; the touchpad stops responding for several seconds and, in some cases, will not respond even after several minutes. The workaround in that case is to put the machine into standby and then resume.

I thought the first part might have to do with HP's drive protection scheme but have no evidence for that belief.

Thanks.

I have the delay for touchpad and keyboard too, but only after couple of hours of standby, and never longer than 3-5 seconds. A friend of mine has the same issue with an other HP laptop.

[wannabelean]

Yeah I have that delay too. Although I dont consider it a problem.