Hi I am not talking a massive drive. 25GB minimum. 60GB maximum. I like Fujitsu and IBM/Hitachi drives.
Simon Royal ________________________________ > From: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:36:33 -0700 > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Faster Hard Drive > To: [email protected] > > Avoid the 7200 rpm drives... Their life expectancy is about 1/3 of the > 5400... beyond that, it depends on your operating system. Windows XP > SP2 will format any size up to 500 GB. WXP SP1 and below are limited > to 137 GB, or abour 127 GB after formattting. > > The 40, 60, and 80 GB Seagate, Fujitsu, Toshiba, and Western Digital > all have a long life and good reliability in that Thinkpad... The 100, > 120, 160, and 250... less long life in decreasing life as size > increases. I would avoid the Samsung, Maxtor, and Hitachi drives due > to reliability issues. > > > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Simon Royal >> wrote: > > Hi > I have an old 15GB 4200RPM drive in my ThinkPad 240x. > I want to put something bigger in it. 15GB just aint big enough for two > OSes. Is there any mileage in getting a faster drive, like a 5400 or > 7200RPM drive? > It helped in a Mac I had a year ago. > > Simon Royal > > > --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: > http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. > --- IBM ThinkPad 240X running Linux Mint 9 LXDE & Windows XP Home - > Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
