Get the Scorpio Black, rather than the blue... with the 16 mb cache. It is $79.99 at www.directron.com, which I consider the best vendor available.
>From what we can tell so far, the larger the drive, the shorter the life. Then there is the terrific Seagate 500 GB with GShock for $107.99 which is probably a better drive. Do not discount the 250 GB and 320 GB drives by Seagate and Western Digital. RB - - - - - I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. .. ... .... ..... ...... Marshal McLuhan On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Peter Machule <[email protected]> wrote: > In-laws have a Z61m with a 40GB ?? HD. > Want a much larger HD. > Anything weird on these models in terms of whitelisting and / or other > issues ? > > > I will likely get a WD 500GB via this thread ,..though the price has > already gone up. > > http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/991374?highlight_key=y&keyword1=500gb > > If anyone has suggestions of alternate drives or alternate sources, > I'd appreciate that too. > > Plan is to use the WD Backup utility to clone the existing HD to the WD > in a USB adapter. > ;-} > > > ...peter.. > _______________________________________________ > 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
