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T60p....HD upgrade....biggest/best HD available?
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:09 pm
by stephenaron
I have the 7200rpm 100gb drive, but am wondering about putting in a 160 to 250 gb drive. Thoughts? Advice?
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:12 pm
by SHoTTa35
sure, should be sweet. I think i read that a 300GB drive is almost out or something too.. you probably wouldn't want it tho because it's slow as poo....
it's only 4200RPM
http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=vie ... 4076&num=3
maybe just use it in the external cage or even an ultrabay one.
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:46 pm
by tomh009
The answer used to be "7K100", but now we have a new sheriff in town, and his name is ... "7K200". Not quite the biggest at 200 GB, but certainly the baddest and fastest hard drive in town.
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:04 pm
by hoya
the Hitachi 7k200 for $250 is the way to go:
http://www.barefeats.com/rosa05.html
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:28 pm
by Pascal_TTH
Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160 Go 7200 rpm is also nice.
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:52 pm
by pianowizard
tomh009 wrote:"7K200". Not quite the biggest at 200 GB, but certainly the baddest and fastest hard drive in town.
I'm praying for the PATA version of it for my R50p's.
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:52 pm
by axiom
Watch for harddrive firmware compability with HDAPS
Drive
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:12 pm
by stephenaron
HDAPS?
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:00 pm
by he46570
I just upgraded my t60p with the 200Gb hitachi drive. It's a noticeably faster drive than my old 100Gb, but a word of warning - I noticed the heat produced went up markedly, and that resulted in higher fan temps and a much hotter computer especially under the vent on the left side.
Doing a similar upgrade to a normal t60 resulted in some extra heat but not as much. Keep this in mind when you upgrade.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:44 am
by Ragtopgeek
he46570 wrote:Doing a similar upgrade to a normal t60 resulted in some extra heat but not as much. Keep this in mind when you upgrade.
Can someone please explain why the same drive would cause much more heat for the t60p versus the t60? This doesn't make sense to me. Thanks, Ragtopgeek.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:14 am
by SkiBunny
Probably the HD heat is a little more noticeable on the T60p because of the extra heat from the T60 cpu and gpu.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:26 am
by SkiBunny
The 7K200 is indeed king of the castle in testing over at Tom's Hardware:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage25 ... &chart=144
It's interesting that many of the 5400 rpm drives out-perform the 7200 rpm drives. I guess it's the perpindicular recording like on the 160gb and bigger ?
That chart above makes me think it'd be smarter to order 5400 rpm 160gb than 7200rpm 100gb ?
Anyone know which 160gb drives Lenovo is using currently?
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:22 am
by tomh009
he46570 wrote:I just upgraded my t60p with the 200Gb hitachi drive. It's a noticeably faster drive than my old 100Gb, but a word of warning - I noticed the heat produced went up markedly, and that resulted in higher fan temps and a much hotter computer especially under the vent on the left side.
Doing a similar upgrade to a normal t60 resulted in some extra heat but not as much. Keep this in mind when you upgrade.
What was the old 100 GB drive? Compared to the 7K100, the 7K200 power consumption is up on average only maybe 0.2W, not really significant in terms of heat. But I suspect that wasn't a 7K100 you switched from ...
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:15 am
by hoya
axiom wrote:Watch for harddrive firmware compability with HDAPS
do you mean Lenovo's Active Protection System? Has anyone ever seen a drive that wasn't compatible?
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:15 pm
by grenert
FWIW, a repair vendor my department uses reported problems with overheating in 7200rpm drives leading to drive failure. It spooked me enough to order a 160GB 5400rpm drive with my new T60. I do find that my Hitachi 5400rpm drive already generates quite a bit of heat in my TP570.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:32 pm
by axiom
hoya wrote:axiom wrote:Watch for harddrive firmware compability with HDAPS
do you mean Lenovo's Active Protection System? Has anyone ever seen a drive that wasn't compatible?
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_w ... sk_parking
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:10 pm
by planetf1
So does anyone know if the
- 7K200 200Gb/7200 drive from Hitachi (not lenovo)
- Seagate 200Gb/7200 from Lenovo 41N3758 (note not officially supported in T60p)
work with HDAPS in the Thinkpad T60?
Is it only Hitachi's with lenovo firmware that park with hdaps?
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:03 pm
by radiodavid
SkiBunny wrote:The 7K200 is indeed king of the castle in
Anyone know which 160gb drives Lenovo is using currently?
My T61p came two weeks ago with a 160 meg Hitachi 5400 rpm, and I cloned it to a Hitachi 200 7200.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:35 am
by andrey
planetf1 wrote:So does anyone know if the
- 7K200 200Gb/7200 drive from Hitachi (not lenovo)
- Seagate 200Gb/7200 from Lenovo 41N3758 (note not officially supported in T60p)
work with HDAPS in the Thinkpad T60?
Is it only Hitachi's with lenovo firmware that park with hdaps?
you can use any 2.5" SATA hard drive with T60 and your hdaps will be fine since it is software based utility, rather than hardware.