Lenovo doesn't have a W700 1T hard drive listed for sale

[Geophyte1]

Can I use a 1T hard drive in the W700?

[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.

[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

[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.

[ajkula66]

, 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...

[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.

[Geophyte1]

FYI.

Everything is working perfectly with the 750 gig drives in RAID1.

[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.