120GB AAO with 160GB drive

I received a new 120GB AAO that actually has a 160GB drive it it. It was new from the factory, they probably ran out of 120GB drives. I'm not complaining. It is an ST9160310AS 5400 RPM drive. It is running at UDMA 5. Here are the HDTune numbers...

Transfer min 32.3
Transfer max 67.0
Transfer avg 52.6
Access 22.1 ms
Burst 89.4
CPU usage 4.3%

 

Same deal here!

I got a Hitachi Travelstar 160GB, HTS543216L9A300 instead of a 120GB.

 

just got mine from circuit city the other day and noticed the same!...and to think, i almost paid 30 more bucks for the 160 model

 

mine came the same way.

what colors are yours guys?

mine is a black, was labeled as 120gb package, came as 160gb.. still 3 cell batt though :?

 

Re: 120GB AAO with 160GB drive Refurbished?

Mine is blue, that's all they had left in my town. I really wanted the white one, and I had one for a few hours, but I had to return it right away because the drive was defective. This 160GB was labeled 120GB on the box too. It is model AOA 150 -1777. Didn't get a 6 cell battery either, but the new battery is correctly labeled now, my first one had a "45Whr" battery which was wrong.

The weird thing about this one is that the Mfg date is 0810 (March 08) but it came with BIOS 3305 on it which is quite recent. It also has a non-flicker screen because I installed BIOS 3307 on it and I can now lower the screen brightness down more. This is my third one, the first was also blue and had a mfg date of 0808. Because of the early mfg date on this one, but the recent BIOS, fixed screen, and the unusual drive, I wonder if some of these could be refurbs that were reworked by Acer? Or is the second # in the mfg date a month and not a week of year...

 

Mine came the same way. It is black.

 

mine is blue...i wonder if there is some sort of correlation from when it was manufactured.

 

I too have the 160 gig drive when I was only supposed to get the 120 gig. Mine is blue and I got it at Office Depot. Manufactured date 0810.
....Fred in Alabama

 

actually i originally said circuit city but i really got it from office depot. i might pick up another one just because

 

I forgot to add that my 160 gig drive is a Western Digital WDC WD1600BEVT-22ZCT0 and it is a 7200 rpm drive. Wow!!
....Fred

 

Well I guess I was wrong about the disk speed. According to Western Digital's web site, the model number that I have is 5400 rpm. I guess the program Sysinfo lied to me.
....Fred

 

System Info says mine is a Hitachi HTS543216L9A300 .

 

Mine came with 160GB too.
I got a blue Aspire one (AOA150-1570)
Mfg.date:0810
I got it from Office Depot last week.
It came with WesternDigital WDC WD1600BEVT-22ZCT0 160GB Hard Drive.

 

My white AAO was built 0810 and my drive is this one:

ST9160310AS
The Seagate® Momentus® 5400.5 drive offers the best combination of capacity, mobility and durability in a laptop hard drive to meet the demanding requirements of today's notebook multimedia usage models. Built with proven Seagate perpendicular recording technology and able to withstand up to 1000 Gs of shock, this highly reliable 2.5-inch drive is perfect for notebook or external storage applications. Backed by a 5-year limited warranty.


Key Advantages

8-MB cache delivers fast performance.
Robust design and high shock tolerance enable mobility in rugged notebook operating environments.
1000 Gs of nonoperating shock make the drive ideal for notebook PCs and industrial applications.
G-Force Protection™ available for added robustness in mobile environments
Green features:
Leverages Seagate laptop power management technology, delivering the lowest-power 5400-RPM laptop hard drive yet
Utilizes ramp load features that remove the head from the disk during idle periods, improving idle power consumption and adding to the durability of the drive
QuietStep™ technology enables ultra-quiet load/unload acoustics.
SATA 3Gb/s Native Command Queuing interface
Perpendicular recording technology
Seagate 5-year limited warranty

 

i got the 120 but when i look at mycomputer it says 144gb. anyone have the same thing?

 

im picking mine up soon! i hope it has a 160gb hardrive lol that would be good

 

You got the 160 GB HDD

 

hmm they must have messed up in the warehouse but that is fine haha

 

Others have noticed this here: http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=8134&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

 

yeah that mess up at the factory had cost them a few dollars. i don't think any of us here wants to return there 160 for a 120 ay