Laptop Hard Drive Recommendations?
Hey all, got another brain-buster for you 
I replaced the old 4200rpm 40gb hard drive in my dell x200 with a 7200rpm 80gb (I'm pretty sure it's a Seagate) and after I installed it I noticed that the underside of the laptop was getting really hot. Despite this, the computer worked fine for about a month or so, and yesterday I went to turn it on and it blue-screened every time I tried to boot windows (even in Safe Mode!)
So whether or not it was a hard drive failure, I think I want to replace my 7200rpm drive with something that runs a little cooler. I went to newegg and so now I'm considering either a lower-rpm drive, or perhaps a perpendicular drive. the Seagate Momentus is looking really good, and lower battery consumption and a lower rpm (without sacrificing too much speed) might be the recipe for a cooler-running hard drive.
So my question is, what does everyone think of perpendicular recording technology, and do you think it'll make a difference in the amount of heat my laptop puts out? Are there any other suggestions for a drive that will cut down on the heat, without sacrificing too much performance? This laptop will be my only computer for almost a year, so I'd like it get the best performance from it I can.
Thanks! I hope all is going well for everyone,
-fux

I replaced the old 4200rpm 40gb hard drive in my dell x200 with a 7200rpm 80gb (I'm pretty sure it's a Seagate) and after I installed it I noticed that the underside of the laptop was getting really hot. Despite this, the computer worked fine for about a month or so, and yesterday I went to turn it on and it blue-screened every time I tried to boot windows (even in Safe Mode!)
So whether or not it was a hard drive failure, I think I want to replace my 7200rpm drive with something that runs a little cooler. I went to newegg and so now I'm considering either a lower-rpm drive, or perhaps a perpendicular drive. the Seagate Momentus is looking really good, and lower battery consumption and a lower rpm (without sacrificing too much speed) might be the recipe for a cooler-running hard drive.
So my question is, what does everyone think of perpendicular recording technology, and do you think it'll make a difference in the amount of heat my laptop puts out? Are there any other suggestions for a drive that will cut down on the heat, without sacrificing too much performance? This laptop will be my only computer for almost a year, so I'd like it get the best performance from it I can.
Thanks! I hope all is going well for everyone,
-fux
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Was your new drive running too much?
Not going into idle soon enough?
I'll be buying a new hard drive for my main computer sometime soon, and it WON'T have any of this perpendicular BS technology.
There isn't a greater risk of corruption.
I'm reinstalling windows now, but this fan is worrying me. Is there a logical reason why it's not spinning up? Is there a temperature sensor that controls it? I didn't see anything in the BIOS like that but I'll take another look.
edit: Just now the fan came back on, so I guess that's that. Since it's in the dock I can't feel the bottom of the laptop to see if it's heating up though.