T4x (Type 2378) maximum hard drive capacity?

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hellosailor · #1 Post by **hellosailor** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:01 pm

I'm trying to help my niece upgrade her hard drive. I know this takes PATA 9.5mm and that IBM only offers them up to 80GB in size...but there are much larger drives on the market.

Would anyone know if the BIOS on this machine will allow a 160GB or 250GB hard drive? Or what the BIOS limit is for it?

#2 Post by **Johan** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:07 pm

If you see e.g. these threads: T42p Hard Drive Upgrade? and T40 & HDD upgrade and harddisk size and WTB: Laptop HDD for my T42 (PATA) ( - just to name a few!), you will see that many T42'ere are using 250 GB HDD's, with no issues (except for some users who have reported a bit of "clicking noise" from the 250 GB WD HDD's - which can be cured in some cases; see the threads).

Whether a BIOS upgrade is necessary, I can't say for sure, but try with the BIOS you have ("if it ain't broken, don't fix it!"), and if that works, you're the hero of the day!

Johan

hellosailor · #3 Post by **hellosailor** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:11 pm

Thanks, Johan. I looked but (mea culpa) didn't use the search engine.

hhmcsv · #4 Post by **hhmcsv** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:33 pm

As you may see in the signature, my T40 is now happily humming along with a 160GB drive - worked "out of the box"

ozoux · #5 Post by **ozoux** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:40 pm

Hi,

I just upgraded my 60G Fujitsu drive to a Samsung 120G i just "ghosted" the drive over then i defragged it and it's running very nice.

There was some clicking of the head parking due to the drives internal management but i use NHC and it's silent now, you can use NHC to silent any drive that loves to park the heads more often then you'd like, not only that but it's great for other power management properties as well.

Stargate199 · #6 Post by **Stargate199** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:24 pm

I think the only limitation is PATA connection. The higher capacities will be for SATA connections only.

CRAZYBUBBA · #7 Post by **CRAZYBUBBA** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:34 pm

Stargate199 wrote:I think the only limitation is PATA connection. The higher capacities will be for SATA connections only.

If you read the above posted thread, you'll see that there can be some very annoying problems which may result from installing non-reccomended PATA drives.

hhmcsv wrote:As you may see in the signature, my T40 is now happily humming along with a 160GB drive - worked "out of the box"

No annoying BIOS beep?

Stargate199 · #8 Post by **Stargate199** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:46 pm

As far as I know, only the T43 checks for a certified IBM drive, the other T4x do not have this issue. I have only dealt with a few T4x in my past. Only one T43 but I never did any hardware upgrades other than reset the ram chips after the owner dropped it.

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