200GB Hard Drives, When?

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200GB Hard Drives, When?

#1 Post by mfratt » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:34 am

Does anyone have any ideas as to when 200GB Notebook hard drives will be available? 100GB just isnt enough for me, for despite have 850GB external storage, I want to be able to carry around 50GB of music and a handful of movies, as well as give my Linux partition more than 10gb of space.
If its gonna be a while, I might just get a 160GB, but I would really like to wait for the 200.
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Re: 200GB Hard Drives, When?

#2 Post by mattbiernat » Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:02 am

mfratt wrote:Does anyone have any ideas as to when 200GB Notebook hard drives will be available? 100GB just isnt enough for me, for despite have 850GB external storage, I want to be able to carry around 50GB of music and a handful of movies, as well as give my Linux partition more than 10gb of space.
If its gonna be a while, I might just get a 160GB, but I would really like to wait for the 200.
im looking for 10,400 speed drive, now that would be really nice.

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Re: 200GB Hard Drives, When?

#3 Post by astpaul » Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:40 pm

mfratt wrote:Does anyone have any ideas as to when 200GB Notebook hard drives will be available? 100GB just isnt enough for me, for despite have 850GB external storage, I want to be able to carry around 50GB of music and a handful of movies, as well as give my Linux partition more than 10gb of space.
If its gonna be a while, I might just get a 160GB, but I would really like to wait for the 200.
You can install a supplementary drive in your thinkpad getting rid of your DVD drive if you wish.

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Re: 200GB Hard Drives, When?

#4 Post by mfratt » Sat Sep 02, 2006 7:10 pm

astpaul wrote:You can install a supplementary drive in your thinkpad getting rid of your DVD drive if you wish.
Yea, but I dont want to lug my Ultrabase around with me.
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Re: 200GB Hard Drives, When?

#5 Post by astpaul » Sun Sep 03, 2006 3:52 am

mfratt wrote:
astpaul wrote:You can install a supplementary drive in your thinkpad getting rid of your DVD drive if you wish.
Yea, but I dont want to lug my Ultrabase around with me.
You don't have to. I currently have 2 drives in my thinkpad t42. There are special adapters that allow you to replace your DVD with a HDD

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#6 Post by tfflivemb2 » Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:13 am

I believe that mfratt is refering to the X60s in his sig, which would require the base, since it doesn't have a built in bay.

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#7 Post by astpaul » Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:42 am

tfflivemb2 wrote:I believe that mfratt is refering to the X60s in his sig, which would require the base, since it doesn't have a built in bay.
ooops sorry :)

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#8 Post by tfflivemb2 » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:06 am

According to this, Fujitsu will begin shipping pretty soon. I just wish that they had a PATA version, instead of SATA only.

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#9 Post by pianowizard » Sun Sep 03, 2006 12:58 pm

tfflivemb2 wrote:According to this, Fujitsu will begin shipping pretty soon. I just wish that they had a PATA version, instead of SATA only.
The first one they're going to make will be only 4200 rpm though.
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#10 Post by tfflivemb2 » Sun Sep 03, 2006 1:01 pm

pianowizard wrote:The first one they're going to make will be only 4200 rpm though.
True, but I think that the OP was looking for storage more so than speed....but, I could be wrong.
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300 gb notebook hard drive?

#11 Post by BigWarpGuy » Sun Sep 03, 2006 4:19 pm

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