Do your future self a favor and do not get a Hitachi drive. I have helped too many friends in the last three years replace them. I think Seagate and WD have the best units out currently. Given the cost differences between drives I'd suggest a 160G disk.
I don't think Ray's bleak assessment of 7200rpm drives is quite right, but I agree that they don't last as long. But I now treat drives like airplane parts, since I tend to kill them in 14 months due to my near constant use of my laptop. --STeve Andre' On Tuesday 10 August 2010 13:49:03 Simon Royal wrote: > 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
