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can thinkpads use dell hard drives?
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:50 pm
by mamamia
because dell is having a sale on their hard drives.
travelstar 7k60
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:00 pm
by mamamia
i was thinking about getting a 7k60. it's dell-branded, and so i'm not sure what consequences that has. but it comes out to $150 before tax and shipping.
it's the 60gb version, but ships in 1-2 weeks, according to dell. but that's cheaper than other people (only seller with it in-stock is zipzoomfly).
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:35 pm
by AlphaKilo470
You should be able to use that hard drive with your ThinkPad. With the exception of the Dell branding and possibly slightly modified firmware, it's the same as a generic version.
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 6:29 pm
by Kyocera
I use a hard drive I got out of an old Fiery Print System, it is 10G. Used R&R CD's to format it, works great, using it right now.
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 6:46 pm
by AlphaKilo470
I used to have a 20gb Hitachi drive pulled from a Dell Latitude in one of my ThinkPad's for some time until it just went kaput.
The 20gb Fujitsu drive in my 760 is from a Compaq laptop; it even has a Compaq spare part number barcode on it.
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:58 pm
by Boricua65
Right
www.geeks.com are having a sale on laptop harddrives. They call it the Green Light Special, and I've seen prices way less than what you are about to pay.
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:14 pm
by mamamia
thanks, but those aren't 7200 rpm hard drives. 7200 rpm ones are much more expensive