T series Hard Drive Speeds

[edik]

My new (used) T42 according to the IBM Web Site inventory analyzer has a 40GB ==4200RPM== drive.

I assumed, the T series being the corporate line, and the T42 not being that old, the machine should have shipped with a standard 5400RPM drive.

It seems IBM must have been economising, because when the T42 was launched standard drives were 5400RPM almost everywhere on mid-priced machines, and even some not-so-mid machines.

Surprised that IBM did this, view this as a corner-cutting exercise by saving a few bucks on the drive.

[jdhurst]

Did you possibly leap before you looked? My T41 came with a 30Gb 4200-rpm hard drive and was less expensive than other T41's at the same time. I had a spare 7200-rpm drive which I installed immediately in the T41. No computer today will run acceptably well on 4200-rpm's (been there, done that). But you would have looked at the specs first and known that. So I don't see it as corner cutting in general on the part of the supplier. ... JD Hurst