What kind of harddrive will work in a thinkpad 600x?

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What kind of harddrive will work in a thinkpad 600x?

#1 Post by crazyforsax » Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:56 pm

Hi ,


My thinkpad 600x has been acting very wierd. I'm going to need a new harddrive for it. I want a 15-20 gb one. Does anyone have any suggestion
My main concern is price IT HAS TO BE UNDER 40.00! Will I need to use the old drive for anything? The case I heard somewhere, I'm not sure!


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#2 Post by BillD » Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:42 pm

You'll need the Hard Drive Caddy from your old hard drive...4 screws and it comes right off...

Check Ebay there's thousands of HDD's there for laptops..I just got a 10 gig for $25...
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#3 Post by hjulian » Sun Mar 19, 2006 8:58 am

You will need the metal housing and the 4 screws. The HDD is 'pasted' to a white plastic sheet in the housing and you will have to remove it carefully. I would suggest after removing the screws, try to remove the HDD from the plastic sheet by pulling it up from the front (not the connector side) while holding the metal housing down.

I read in another thread that these ThinkPads (600 series) will take HDDs up to 138 GB. I am myself using a 60 GB HDD from Hitachi (7200 rpm, UDMA4 or ATA66).

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#4 Post by AlphaKilo470 » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:12 am

Almost all 2.5" IDE hard drives should work in your ThinkPad. Currently, I'm using a 40gb Toshiba MK-4026GAX and before that I had a 20gb Fujitsu drive.
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#5 Post by 440roadrunner » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:38 pm

Almost all 2.5" IDE hard drives should work in your ThinkPad

Well, as long as they're not too tall. One of the old drives out of my old 380XD is too tall to fit the 600X, either in the regular spot, or the ultraslimbay.
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#6 Post by tfflivemb2 » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:52 pm

Yes, they have to be 12.5mm or thinner. Some older Thinkpads had 17mm drives.
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#7 Post by wireless4laptop » Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:09 am

I strongly recommend 5K100 40G harddisk for you.

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822146041

Very fast and quiet. We just move one 40G 5K100 from 600E to T23, but will buy another for 600X in next week.
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