A22e Hard Drive Question

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agarza · #1 Post by **agarza** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:16 pm

Which is the maximum theoretically transfer mode on a Thinkpad A22e. It has the stock HDD, a Hitachi Travelstar 15GB. Would upgrading to a 5400RPM drive would increase its performance or it will be limited to the transfer speed of the old chipset?

ajkula66 · #2 Post by **ajkula66** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:55 pm

FWIW, my daughter had a 40/5400 HDD in her (long since buried) A22e, and it has made a difference when compared do 20/4200 that was originally in there.

Hope this helps.

agarza · #3 Post by **agarza** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:01 am

OK thank you.
I'm thinking on putting either a E7K100 60GB HDD or a Momentus 4200.2 100GB HDD. I think even putting a 4200RPM with 8MB of cache instead of 2MB originally on the Travelstar would result on a more responsive machine. Problem is I don't have an optical drive. IS there a way to make a T61 CDRW/DVD drive work somehow on the A22e. I tried using an external DVD burner and booting from it but the BIOS does not detect the drive at startup.

ajkula66 · #4 Post by **ajkula66** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:34 am

You can't make the combo from your T61 to work there...but you can buy an ultrabay 2000 drive for anywhere between 10 and 30 bucks..

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