We see a number of 7200 rpm hard drive failures in our shop... particularly 120, 160, and 320 GB (no 250 or 500 yet) Apparently the manufacturers (Hitachi, Seagate, Western Digital, and Fujitsu) have yet to find a way to make them last... at about half the life of a 5400 rpm unit, you might want to look at whether you really need that extra bit of speed. The failures of Hitachi and Samsung are much greater. Toshiba drives seem to be able to handle that higher rotational speed, but they are pretty rare to find anywhere on shopping sites...
Insurance companies and traveling sales teams hire us to perform quick rebuilds and repairs on all machines... mainly Lenovo, HP high end, Gateway, and Compaq... so we get to see fairly large numbers... Hitachi remain way too bad to consider... as do Samsung. Seagate and Fujitsu seem to have the longer life, but still much shorter than their 5400 rpm drives... Toshiba drives seem to be able to handle that higher rotational speed, but they are pretty rare on shopping sites... We rank them from our shop experience, since November 2007, as follows Fujitsu 5400 Toshiba 5400 Seagate 5400 Western Digital 5400 Toshiba 7200 Fujitsu 7200 Seagate 7200 Western Digital 7200 Samsung 5400 These below have serious problems of early failure Hitachi 5400 Samsung 7200 Hitachi 7200 These are not big numbers... a tad less than 400 machines. Seagate has been taking our failed ones to figger out how to make them better. I have had excellent luck with Seagate 120 GB, with nary a failure so far. Of course, you must consider the handling of the sales teams... and there is a lot of heat in Southern Arizona and Northern Mexico as well. ________ Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough. ... .... ..... ...... ....... Groucho Marx On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:59 PM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 04 May 2009 15:59:00 Jonathan Kelly wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I'm looking at purchasing a Serial ATA hard drive Bay Adapter, and a > 100+GB > > / 7200 RPM hard drive to go with it. Is there a list of known working > (or > > known 'not-to-work') drives for T6x series systems in this configuration? > > I searched through the list archives and couldn't find anything. But I > > know there have been problems with using some size/model HDD's with some > > ThinkPads (the old 1810 bios errors), and I would very much like to avoid > > such mistakes out of the gate. > > > > Thanks for any help, > > Jonathan > > When I had my t60p, I had a lot of different sata disks as my second disk, > and never had a problem. > > I think we're beyond the weird IDE problems of the past. The T43 wasn't > the only laptop that had problems in that regard, but I have yet to have > heard a problem like that with sata disks. > > --STeve Andre' > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
