UPGRADE: Using a IBM (Hitachi) Hard drive

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fillstar · #1 Post by **fillstar** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:06 pm

Hey guys,

After filtering through a ton of coverage regading the Hitachi 7.2K RPM hard drive upgrades that are very popular I was worried with the amount of fiddling required to get it working.

I am very un-technical so all of those firmwares and imaging and swapping is a bit too much. I was wondering whether a hard drive upgrade purchased from the IBM site will guarantee plug-and-play.
I heard the hard drive of the same spec is actually the Hitachi drive itself but easier to install cause of some setting??? I know its substantially more expensive but I honestly CBF with the work to get it working.

I want a clean start by installing the recovery disks on this new hard drive (which should work once installed) and use the old 30GB 4200rpm for a USB drive or Ultrabay etc.

In conclusion... will a hard drive purchased straight off IBM work straight out of the pakage by simplying isntalling it?

Thanks guys!

#2 Post by **carbon_unit** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:41 pm

Yes.
Which T4x are you working with?

fillstar · #3 Post by **fillstar** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:57 pm

T41 - 2373 1FM

Orevin · #4 Post by **Orevin** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:00 pm

The Hitachi 7K100 works right out of the box. I did that upgrade two days ago on my T41p.

#5 Post by **carbon_unit** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:03 pm

I think it is only the T43's that complain about a non-IBM dirve.
The rest of the T4x series is cool with just about any drive.

agarza · #6 Post by **agarza** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:14 pm

Orevin wrote:The Hitachi 7K100 works right out of the box. I did that upgrade two days ago on my T41p.

More and more people are making the change to 7K100 series! I've mine too installed just yesterday.

Do you have a clicking sound in your 7K100 (when just surfing, the disk should be idle, but makes a tick, tick, tick..)

UPGRADE: Using a IBM (Hitachi) Hard drive

UPGRADE: Using a IBM (Hitachi) Hard drive

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