On Thu, 20 May 1999, WJCarpenter wrote:
>>> You have a Toshiba - right? Toshiba have expensive propietary
>>> components, so they can rip you off on spares. Knowing what disk
>>> you can put where requires a knowledge of the options on your
>
>Most notebooks are full of proprietary stuff. I don't think Toshiba
>is exceptional in this respect. For HDDs, there seems to be an
>industry defacto form factor for 2.5in drives. The length and width
>is the same, and the connector location is the same. The only
>difference is the height of the drive.
>
>FYI, Toshiba is one of the major manufacturers of 2.5in hard drives.
>For what it's worth, I have seen mail order prices for 6.4GB Toshiba
>2.5in drives for around US$250.
Without disagreeing with any of what you said, I have run
across some older Toshiba laptops which could not take a hard disk
upgrade. There was one which could not be upgraded from 80Mb, which is
a wierd place to get stuck. Hence the caution on my part.
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Declan Moriarty
