TP540P and Travelstar 7K1000

[CharlesF]

Has any one used the 7200 rpm Travelstar in a TP540p or know if it will work. My internal drive is failing and I'm thinking of replacing it with the Travelstar.

Thanks.

Regards,
Charles

[jdhurst]

Should work fine, presuming your BIOS will understand 1TB.

http://www.hgst.com/products/hard-drive ... tar-7k1000

I tried a 1 TB WD drive in my old X230 and could not get it to work but this is a 3 year old machine and your machine is newer.

[CharlesF]

Should work fine, presuming your BIOS will understand 1TB.

http://www.hgst.com/products/hard-drive ... tar-7k1000

I tried a 1 TB WD drive in my old X230 and could not get it to work but this is a 3 year old machine and your machine is newer.

Thanks for the response.

I'm assuming that BIOS will not be a problem since Lenovo's compatibility table shows that a 1TB 5400 rpm drive is usable with the TP540p.

Regards,
Charles

[jdhurst]

Yes. The speed does not matter to the BIOS.

[jdrou]

Should work fine, presuming your BIOS will understand 1TB.

http://www.hgst.com/products/hard-drive ... tar-7k1000

I tried a 1 TB WD drive in my old X230 and could not get it to work but this is a 3 year old machine and your machine is newer.

I don't think any system less than 10 years old should have a problem with 1 TB capacity.
Maybe OS issues with 4k sectors though or a problem with that specific drive.

I have a 1 TB SSD in my T440p right now so definitely no problem there.

[ajkula66]

I don't think any system less than 10 years old should have a problem with 1 TB capacity.
Maybe OS issues with 4k sectors though or a problem with that specific drive.

Agreed. I've owned numerous *61 systems which were running 1TB spinners. No issues whatsoever. I can't imagine a newer ThinkPad having problems with such a drive.

[thinkpadcollection]

How is the performance between 1 platter 500GB version usually found as 7mm height and 2 platters 1TB 9.5mm drives?

Cheers, thinkpadcollection