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Hi all, I'm looking for one of these drives for my old T42. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Add me to the want to buy list also. Of course, second behind gujjuman

Me too, in the bronze position (I guess)...

There has to be someone with a 7200 rpm PATA hard drive for sale. I would much rather buy from someone here than on Ebay...

What happened to all of them? Did all the manufacturers stop producing them at the same time? Very strange...

I am in for one too, been looking for a good deal for months!

I have a couple of these I think, I know they are 60gb, and 7200 rpm. What is the model number to check? Why are they in such demand, the two I have are just in a bag, or an external HD enclosure at the moment.

nikemen wrote:I have a couple of these I think, I know they are 60gb, and 7200 rpm. What is the model number to check? Why are they in such demand, the two I have are just in a bag, or an external HD enclosure at the moment.

Well they used to be *the* drive to get for a PATA laptop, for greatest performance increase. Then the supply of brand new ones suddenly dried up.

I'm sure lots of people would like to have yours .

nikemen are you interested in parting with any of your old drives? I need a 7200 rpm pata drive, and they are not selling new ones. If you are using one externally, you could easily replace it with a newer sata drive and pass your old one on to someone who could use it internally...

Just a thought...

The PATA 7200rpm drives have been discontinued for some reason. I contacted all of the online sellers advertising the Hitachi 7200rpm 100gig drive (7k100) but none of them had one in stock and said they could no longer get them. So it looks like one of the rapidly dwindling 5400rpm drives or nothing!

does anyone have a link to the drive numbers and models so I can check out the ones I have. I'll try to check before heading out of town.

I have a 60GB Hitachi 7200 RPM drive, if interested send a PM. A pull from a T42p.

Thanks

me three. wish brent was still selling them.

yeah i need one too. pref. 100gb.... why were they d/c'ed anyway?

rssb, where are you located?

What are they worth? $1 per GB or more? I'm trying to trade an unused 80GB 7K100 for a T4x mobo, but I may just sell it and then locate a mobo on my own.

This doesn't make any sense. All the laptop manufacturers need a supply for warranty repair for at least another 3 years. Are there any articles on why production stopped at multiple drive companies.

Perhaps they'll all start releasing newer models at the same time? Hopefully soon!

Here's a refurb. Seagate 40GB 7200RPM option for $66 ($58 + $8 shipping) - yikes!

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid ... -R&cat=HDD

I have an Hitachi 7K60 60GB PATA I'd be willing to sell. It probably hasn't been used much as I had it marked as a "spare", it checks out fine, and still has the recovery partition on it (likely from a T42 or an X31 but I don't remember so don't hold me to it!). I have no idea what it's worth so an interested e-mailer over the next day or so with a tasty offer gets it (no calling "dibs" please as I will choose who gets it... unless you are going to send me a 3-figure offer of course!). I don't need it anymore. I don't need a lot of things anymore, though I don't have the time to list it all either!

- Yak

I also checked some of my old "sources" and found 2 available for $95 plus shipping each if anyone is interested (6 month warranty from the seller). I check some other guys to see what's out there.

underclocker wrote: This doesn't make any sense. All the laptop manufacturers need a supply for warranty repair for at least another 3 years. Are there any articles on why production stopped at multiple drive companies.

Apparently, that is exactly what happened - the there was a run on these 7200rpm PATA drives by the computer manufacturers when they heard they were being discontinued. As to why they were being discontinued - I guess high performance PATA drives are considered a bit of an oxymoron now (at least by the marketing guys)!

brainpicker wrote:I also checked some of my old "sources" and found 2 available for $95 plus shipping each if anyone is interested (6 month warranty from the seller). I check some other guys to see what's out there.

Which models do your "sources" have?

brainpicker I would be interested in looking into your "sources" as well...

Does anyone have a 60 gb Hard Drive for an X41 if so please Pm me

Thanks

I noticed that Newegg has both 100gb and 80gb 7200rpm pata drives now.

Scott

spuddog wrote:

I noticed that Newegg has both 100gb and 80gb 7200rpm pata drives now

.

And they're ALL "out of stock"...

ajkula66 wrote:And they're ALL "out of stock"...

The Seagate 80GB 7200RPM (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822146229) has an ETA of 5/5/08. None of the Hitachis have ETAs.

Dang - didnt realize these drives were so scarce all of a sudden, glad I got mine from BrentP a few years back.

Well guys, I just realized that I actually have one of these in my "cabinet of possibilities". I bought it some months ago to go in my project A31p (which I'm about to sell as well since I've moved on to a R50). Anyway, it's a new (sealed in the static bag):

Hitachi Travelstar HTS721080G9T00
7200rpm 80Gb, 8Mb Cache

The sticker is marked May 07, so I believe is still under warranty. I don't remember what I paid for it, and I sure don't have any idea how much it's worth, so if anyone is interested, please PM.

Try here and they still might have something in stock.

@ schen:

You have PM...

Best regards,

Johan