Good compatible hard drive for Thinkpad R40

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opera · #1 Post by **opera** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:30 am

Hello everyone,

After struggling with my new Seagate drive (http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... c30182e6a5)
I have gotten it replaced by a new one, however, this hard drive have the same symptoms as the prior one. This has lead me to believe that the thinkpad just don't like this perticular drive (and I've tried flashing the BIOS, updating the firmware and so on) as suggested by sco1984 in the thread mentioned above.

So now I'm asking you this: What would be a good brand to try out next? I'm thinking of getting hold of a Hitachi drive since the original one i got with the laptop was a hitachi as well, any thoughts on that?

JHEM · #2 Post by **JHEM** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:29 am

Historically, the IBM/Hitachi HDs are the least problematic when installed in Thinkpads.

Fujitsu HDs are also good.

Regards,

James

opera · #3 Post by **opera** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:46 am

Thanks for the tip, I will try to get hold of a hitachi one according to plan

Pookster · #4 Post by **Pookster** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:49 pm

Hiya,

I recently slapped in a new drive into my Thinkpad R40e due to the Fujitsu drive that was in started to fail but it was 4 years old so acceptable life span, I basically any 2.5inch drive will work in the R40's as long as there ATA100.

I got a Seagate Momentius 80gig 4200 ATA100 8meg cache for around GB£45 around $69 and it works a treat. The R40's used Ultabays which are fairly easy to swap over from your old hard drive. Just undo the screw located where your headphone and microphone socket it and then pull on the little lip and it should pop right out, nice and easy.

One word of warning though, remeber that if you are using a system that has the hidden partition they are a complete [censored] to copy, I found the easiet method was to revert my fujitsu hard drive to an origial factory installation and then use IBM rapid restore and backed it up by TCP/IP and then just did a boot and fired it all back accross and worked just fine.

Hope this info helps in you making your decision,

Pookster

opera · #5 Post by **opera** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:16 pm

Thanks for the reply, Since i experienced problems with the Seagate Momentus 60 GB I think im going for a 60 GB hitachi drive instead (HITACHI TRAVELSTAR 5K100 60GB 2.5# 5400RPM ATA/100). I hope the extra rpm's will help me get some more performance out of the machine

. As for the hidden partition it is long gone. I go all out linux on this one so there is no need for backing stuff up

wolfman · #6 Post by **wolfman** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:54 am

Definately can second the recommendation for the Hitachi. I've had very good service from a 4200 and 7200 RPM Hitachi in my R40.

opera · #7 Post by **opera** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:01 pm

as seen in my last post in http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... c30182e6a5 the swapping of brands seemed to do the trick, thanks for the support everyone

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