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can a 9.5mm/0.37in thick drive fit into a x220?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:13 am
by Kirill
I want to upgrade my HDD and was thinking about getting Seagate Momentus with 16MB cache, 7200RPM and 750GB of space, It's 9.5mm/0.37inches thick so I'm not sure it will be able to fit.
The current harddrive is a Hitachi Travelstar Z5K320, which is only 7mm/0.276inches thick
Will the Seagate HDD fit in to my machine?
Re: can a 9.5mm/0.37in thick drive fit into a x220?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 11:26 am
by penartur
Kirill wrote:I want to upgrade my HDD and was thinking about getting Seagate Momentus with 16MB cache, 7200RPM and 750GB of space, It's 9.5mm/0.37inches thick so I'm not sure it will be able to fit.
The current harddrive is a Hitachi Travelstar Z5K320, which is only 7mm/0.276inches thick
Will the Seagate HDD fit in to my machine?
Officially, X220 supports only 7mm thick hard drives.
However, there were reports on successfully installing 9mm thick hard drives (without the rails) using some brute force, with keyboard removed during the installation process.
Re: can a 9.5mm/0.37in thick drive fit into a x220?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 11:44 am
by Kirill
yeah, I've found some threads about that. looks like I'm gonna be waiting for a while to get slimmer drivers