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Lenovo doesn't have a W700 1T hard drive listed for sale
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:10 pm
by Geophyte1
Can I use a 1T hard drive in the W700?
Re: Lenovo doesn't have a W700 1T hard drive listed for sale
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 4:30 pm
by al.ava
Yes that shouldnt be a problem, but i wouldnt use a 1tb on a notebook, i wouldnt risk to store that much data in it risking that may drop it and HDD stop working or stolen and bye bye data, i have so much data but i keep it at home on my 2tb hard drive, i have about 1tb full and im looking to get another drive and clone it as a back up, i dont want to go thru losing that much data and memories again
. but if you have a project going then yes 1tb can be installed in it. clone it or reinstall the OS from scratch.
Re: Lenovo doesn't have a W700 1T hard drive listed for sale
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 5:56 pm
by Geophyte1
The data loss should not be a problem. I run a raid 1 on the W700ds and I also back up the data periodically.
It is interesting to me that Lenovo doesn't offer a 1T HD for sale for the W700.
thanks
Re: Lenovo doesn't have a W700 1T hard drive listed for sale
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:19 pm
by al.ava
Yeah but you can get any brand, doesnt have to be by lenovo, and the reason why they dont could be a business strategy, we deal with them directly and sometimes doing business with them can be frustrating even as a business partner.
Re: Lenovo doesn't have a W700 1T hard drive listed for sale
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:03 pm
by ajkula66
al.ava wrote:, and the reason why they dont could be a business strategy,
Nothing to do with the business strategy.
Lenovo - just like IBM before them - will not offer an "upgrade" that a machine hasn't originally been available with.
Everyone knows that a 320GB drive will work with a T60, but Lenovo never offered it as an upgrade, nor it ever will.
Many of us have installed 8GB RAM in a R61/T61/X61, but if you ask Lenovo, the maximum RAM for these machines is 4GB.
I could go on, but I'm certain that OP is catching my drift, so to speak...
Re: Lenovo doesn't have a W700 1T hard drive listed for sale
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:01 pm
by Geophyte1
Thanks everyone. Ater looking and thinking I decided to go with, and have ordered, the Seagate 7200 rpm 750 gig drives rather than the 5400rpm 1Ts.
Re: Lenovo doesn't have a W700 1T hard drive listed for sale
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 5:34 pm
by Geophyte1
FYI.
Everything is working perfectly with the 750 gig drives in RAID1.
Re: Lenovo doesn't have a W700 1T hard drive listed for sale
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:48 pm
by precip9
I have installed the 1TB Western Digital Scorpio Blue, model WD10JPVT, in:
three W500's
a T400's
two X61's with Middleton BIOS
They work fine, provided the driver is obtained here,
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_ ... ldID=19596
The "Matrix storage manager" on the Lenovo site must not be loaded.