HD-PF250U2 : Replacing the drive?

[Stone-D]

   

Hi,

 

After two years of satisfactory service, my PF250U2 Ministation is failing... to be precise, its the Samsung Spinpoint HM250JI inside, that's failing.

 

I've busted the warranty, so lets get that out of the way - I'm not asking for an RMA or anything else. Just advice.

 

I dismantled the unit, attached the drive to my mainboard and ran samsung's diagnostics software on it - it's going bad, alright.

 

Now. I absolutely love the enclosure, and there's nothing wrong with it besides being moderately battered. I haven't been able to find a replacement Samsung drive here in Jakarta, so I want to replace the Samsung with one of the following :

 

Hitachi Travelstar

Seagate Momentus

Western Digital Scorpio Blue

 

These are the drives I have easy access to. I would like, ideally, to put a 500Gb drive in the enclosure.

 

Does the waferboard support drives larger than 250? Are there any limitations in the ROM as to what drives it will accept?

 

This is the second such drive I have owned - the first got stolen.    :(

 

I was going to get a more recent model, but there are no PF models being sold here that I can find, the PE models look too weak and the PX model seems slow and has that annoying CDFS partition I've just learned about.

 

Thanks for your time.

 

[davo]

   

The casing is just a caddy, and the original drive is just a standard 2 and a half inch SATA HDD. Any  of the mentioned drives you outlined should be fine, i see no reason why it couldn't handle a 500GB drive!

[Memoryman]

   

We have 500GB versions of that in the US, but I don't know which drives were tested for it. You definately want a drive with lower current requirements.

[Stone-D]

   

Thanks guys. I've decided to get the Seagate Momentus 5400rpm 500Gb. If it doesn't work, I'll just get another enclosure or leave it plugged into my mainboard. Cheers!