What drive enclosure for T60p HD upgrade?

[WalkGood]

T60p 2613 CTO WIN XP SP3

Will buy WD5000BPKT 500GB to upgrade factory 100GB drive. Yes I will get the alignment software. Buy.com has decent price right now on the drive.

What enclosure is recommended to do the drive copy?

Any tips you can recommend for doing the upgrade?


Thanks!

[robert213]

What enclosure is recommended to do the drive copy?

Most folks buys the cheapest that they can find. I prefer SilverStone's RAVEN RVS01 with both USB and eSATA and RVS02 with USB3.
http://www.silverstonetek.com/raven/pro ... 01&area=en
http://www.silverstonetek.com/raven/pro ... 02&area=en

I purchased mine from AMAZON.COM

[Johan]

Why not get the 2nd SATA adapter (Lenovo P/N 40Y8725) for use in the UltraBay e.g. this one - that's surely going to be way faster compared to use an external USB 2.0 harddrive-enclosure!

As for cloning your drive, I'd suggest getting the free Acronis True Image WD Edition Software; you may download it from here.

PS: What is the "alignment software" you mention intended for?? You're using XP, you say?!?

Johan

[WalkGood]

I just want an enclosure to do the cloning so that I will boot with the 7200RPM 500GB drive afterwards. Having an old 100 GB drive in the ultrabay is not a priority.

[EOMtp]

Having an old 100 GB drive in the ultrabay is not a priority.

However, it is almost guaranteed that you will not produce a bootable drive by cloning from internal drive to an external USB. Further, even if you place the new drive in the main drive bay, and the old drive in an external USB enclosure, you still may not be able to boot from the old drive in the external enclosure. Take Johan's advice: nothing beats the 2nd HDD Adapter for what you want to accomplish ... and it costs less than $10:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=40Y ... m270.l1313

[WalkGood]

I would put the new blank drive in the internal bay, and the original drive in the USB drive to make the clone/copy.

I have not looked EVERYWHERE but what I have read is doing what I just wrote. Have not seen it mentioned to use an ultrabay drive adapter. I am sure it works, just did not think of it. I'd probably NOT keep a 2nd drive in there anyway afterwards. I'd keep the DVD burner - I send picture and video DVD's to the Grandparents.

Something to consider, although it would be a one-off use.