7200 RPM drive in X60?

[PaulO]

The X60 spec seems to be for 2.5", 5400 rpm drives (in 40 or 60 Gig). Could you install a 7200 rpm 2.5" drive in an X60, and if so, why doesn't Lenovo offer that? Is 7200 rpm the fastest 2.5" drive made?

Thanks, Paul
X40 (great machine, but the hard drive is pretty slow!)

[seneca]

The X60 can have an 7200rpm HDD installed.

But the X60 is an Ultraportable laptop and batteryconsumtion is very high with 7200rpm drives. I can imagine that's the reason it's not offered.

EDIT: There exist the so called "SAS"-discs 10000rpm sata, but is not appropriate for laptops, only servers.

[aceo07]

Yes, the 7200rpm drives will work in it.

The power comsumption isn't too bad. I get 4hours usage on my X22 with my 7200rpm. Considering that the X60 probably has much better power management and options for bigger battery, it won't be too bad.

[Aroc]

SAS is Serial Attached SCSI. That is not a drive that is compatible with a thinkpad.

[seneca]

Yes, you are right. However you can use an adapter for Ultrabay and get SATA functionality (SAS is compatible with ordinary SATA).

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/UltraBay_ ... DD_Adapter

I have also seen an adapter for the T43 for a SAS 10krpm working.