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Does anyone have any ideas as to when 200GB Notebook hard drives will be available? 100GB just isnt enough for me, for despite have 850GB external storage, I want to be able to carry around 50GB of music and a handful of movies, as well as give my Linux partition more than 10gb of space.
If its gonna be a while, I might just get a 160GB, but I would really like to wait for the 200.

mfratt wrote:Does anyone have any ideas as to when 200GB Notebook hard drives will be available? 100GB just isnt enough for me, for despite have 850GB external storage, I want to be able to carry around 50GB of music and a handful of movies, as well as give my Linux partition more than 10gb of space.
If its gonna be a while, I might just get a 160GB, but I would really like to wait for the 200.

im looking for 10,400 speed drive, now that would be really nice.

mfratt wrote:Does anyone have any ideas as to when 200GB Notebook hard drives will be available? 100GB just isnt enough for me, for despite have 850GB external storage, I want to be able to carry around 50GB of music and a handful of movies, as well as give my Linux partition more than 10gb of space.
If its gonna be a while, I might just get a 160GB, but I would really like to wait for the 200.

You can install a supplementary drive in your thinkpad getting rid of your DVD drive if you wish.

astpaul wrote:You can install a supplementary drive in your thinkpad getting rid of your DVD drive if you wish.

Yea, but I dont want to lug my Ultrabase around with me.

mfratt wrote:

astpaul wrote:You can install a supplementary drive in your thinkpad getting rid of your DVD drive if you wish.

Yea, but I dont want to lug my Ultrabase around with me.

You don't have to. I currently have 2 drives in my thinkpad t42. There are special adapters that allow you to replace your DVD with a HDD

I believe that mfratt is refering to the X60s in his sig, which would require the base, since it doesn't have a built in bay.

tfflivemb2 wrote:I believe that mfratt is refering to the X60s in his sig, which would require the base, since it doesn't have a built in bay.

ooops sorry

According to this, Fujitsu will begin shipping pretty soon. I just wish that they had a PATA version, instead of SATA only.

tfflivemb2 wrote:According to this, Fujitsu will begin shipping pretty soon. I just wish that they had a PATA version, instead of SATA only.

The first one they're going to make will be only 4200 rpm though.

pianowizard wrote:The first one they're going to make will be only 4200 rpm though.

True, but I think that the OP was looking for storage more so than speed....but, I could be wrong.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=no ... gle+Search
Google and '300 gb notebook hard drive' search results.