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YAHDT: Yet Another Hard Drive Thread

#1 Post by Temetka » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:38 pm

Well with the pending purchase of a 2nd bay HD adapter, I find myself looking at upgrading my laptop (yet again).

Right now I am running my 120GB 5400RPM drive as boot. This will be going into the 2nd bay adapter as data storage.

So here is the question:

What is the biggest, baddest 7200RPM drive known to man that will run in the T41P of Doom without any crazy 2010 weirdness or BIOS hackery. I would prefer something with16MB (or, holds breath) 32MB of Cache.

I don't have the funds for one of those flash HD's so that's not an option.

Thanks in advance.
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#2 Post by agarza » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:49 pm

To my information, I've not heard yet of new flash hybrid HDD drives. Toshiba is the only HDD manufacturer which offers 16MB cache drives. I'm unsure if a 7200rpm 8MB cache is faster or slower than a 5400rpm 16MB cache.
Still, the preferred choice to my is the 7K100. Are you interested in space or biggest storage?
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#3 Post by Temetka » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:29 am

I want the biggest storage space available WITH 7200RPM. So in other words what is the biggest (and reliable) 7200RPM drive that will work in my T41P?

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#4 Post by zacha81 » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:18 am

the biggest storage WITH 7200 rpm is 100GB AT ALL. so there are currently NO DRIVES on the market giving you > 100GB AND 7200rpm. I have two hitachi 7k100 drives (each 100GB) for my t43p. It's possible to flash this drive with the corresponding IBM firmware so that the 2010 error disappears.

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#5 Post by steveg47 » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:58 am

Hitachi should have a 200gb/7200 2.5 available in June and Seagate should have a 160gb/7200 available anytime now, probably May.
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#6 Post by monkey243 » Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:06 am

I think you should wait for a few. By then, you can get more 100GB 7200RPM HDD.
There is no 2010 error in T41P.
2010 error just be happened in IBM notebook coming with intel 915 chipset.
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#7 Post by Temetka » Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:30 pm

Good news on both fronts.

Looking forward to getting a larger than 100GB HD at fast speeds and never have to worry about 2010 issues. Sounds great to me.
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#8 Post by GoyoNeuff » Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:06 am

Yep, not error there.

Get the: HITACHI Travelstar 7K100 HTS721010G9AT00

Maybe in newegg.com.

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#9 Post by cmarti » Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:54 am

If you are going to buy the drive now the best choise is the 100gb 7k100, period. :thumbs-UP:
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#10 Post by smugiri » Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:21 am

I have a T40p and I also thought of getting what you are looking for (the largest possible 7200rpm drive for the Ultrabay) that I could.

My "gut feel" tests indicated that from a performance standpoint, it was not worth it since I could discern no speed difference between having a 7200 and a 5400 in the ultrabay (not the regular HDD slot, for that slot, there was a world of difference). I ended up picking up a 160gb 5400rpm Hitachi with 60gb more than the largest 7200 disk for 80$ less with what I felt was the same performance.


Here is a snapshot of what my machine looks like now.

Bottom line was that I found that for the ultrabay, the 7200rpm drive was not worth it.
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#11 Post by Temetka » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:59 pm

Yeah, the fast HD would go inside the machine with my current 120GB 5400RPM drive going into the ultrabay adapter.

I have triple boot set up right now, between XP, Vista and SuSE. So the 2nd HD would be to store my files.
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