T60p....HD upgrade....biggest/best HD available?

Message

stephenaron · #1 Post by **stephenaron** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:09 pm

I have the 7200rpm 100gb drive, but am wondering about putting in a 160 to 250 gb drive. Thoughts? Advice?

SHoTTa35 · #2 Post by **SHoTTa35** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:12 pm

sure, should be sweet. I think i read that a 300GB drive is almost out or something too.. you probably wouldn't want it tho because it's slow as poo....

it's only 4200RPM

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=vie ... 4076&num=3

maybe just use it in the external cage or even an ultrabay one.

#3 Post by **tomh009** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:46 pm

The answer used to be "7K100", but now we have a new sheriff in town, and his name is ... "7K200". Not quite the biggest at 200 GB, but certainly the baddest and fastest hard drive in town.

hoya · #4 Post by **hoya** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:04 pm

the Hitachi 7k200 for $250 is the way to go:
http://www.barefeats.com/rosa05.html

Pascal_TTH · #5 Post by **Pascal_TTH** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:28 pm

Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160 Go 7200 rpm is also nice.

pianowizard · #6 Post by **pianowizard** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:52 pm

tomh009 wrote:"7K200". Not quite the biggest at 200 GB, but certainly the baddest and fastest hard drive in town.

I'm praying for the PATA version of it for my R50p's.

axiom · #7 Post by **axiom** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:52 pm

Watch for harddrive firmware compability with HDAPS

stephenaron · #8 Post by **stephenaron** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:12 pm

HDAPS?

he46570 · #9 Post by **he46570** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:00 pm

I just upgraded my t60p with the 200Gb hitachi drive. It's a noticeably faster drive than my old 100Gb, but a word of warning - I noticed the heat produced went up markedly, and that resulted in higher fan temps and a much hotter computer especially under the vent on the left side.

Doing a similar upgrade to a normal t60 resulted in some extra heat but not as much. Keep this in mind when you upgrade.

Ragtopgeek · #10 Post by **Ragtopgeek** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:44 am

he46570 wrote:Doing a similar upgrade to a normal t60 resulted in some extra heat but not as much. Keep this in mind when you upgrade.

Can someone please explain why the same drive would cause much more heat for the t60p versus the t60? This doesn't make sense to me. Thanks, Ragtopgeek.

SkiBunny · #11 Post by **SkiBunny** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:14 am

Probably the HD heat is a little more noticeable on the T60p because of the extra heat from the T60 cpu and gpu.

SkiBunny · #12 Post by **SkiBunny** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:26 am

The 7K200 is indeed king of the castle in testing over at Tom's Hardware:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage25 ... &chart=144

It's interesting that many of the 5400 rpm drives out-perform the 7200 rpm drives. I guess it's the perpindicular recording like on the 160gb and bigger ?

That chart above makes me think it'd be smarter to order 5400 rpm 160gb than 7200rpm 100gb ?

Anyone know which 160gb drives Lenovo is using currently?

#13 Post by **tomh009** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:22 am

he46570 wrote:I just upgraded my t60p with the 200Gb hitachi drive. It's a noticeably faster drive than my old 100Gb, but a word of warning - I noticed the heat produced went up markedly, and that resulted in higher fan temps and a much hotter computer especially under the vent on the left side.

Doing a similar upgrade to a normal t60 resulted in some extra heat but not as much. Keep this in mind when you upgrade.

What was the old 100 GB drive? Compared to the 7K100, the 7K200 power consumption is up on average only maybe 0.2W, not really significant in terms of heat. But I suspect that wasn't a 7K100 you switched from ...

hoya · #14 Post by **hoya** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:15 am

axiom wrote:Watch for harddrive firmware compability with HDAPS

do you mean Lenovo's Active Protection System? Has anyone ever seen a drive that wasn't compatible?

grenert · #15 Post by **grenert** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:15 pm

FWIW, a repair vendor my department uses reported problems with overheating in 7200rpm drives leading to drive failure. It spooked me enough to order a 160GB 5400rpm drive with my new T60. I do find that my Hitachi 5400rpm drive already generates quite a bit of heat in my TP570.

axiom · #16 Post by **axiom** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:32 pm

hoya wrote:
axiom wrote:Watch for harddrive firmware compability with HDAPS
do you mean Lenovo's Active Protection System? Has anyone ever seen a drive that wasn't compatible?

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_w ... sk_parking

planetf1 · #17 Post by **planetf1** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:10 pm

So does anyone know if the
- 7K200 200Gb/7200 drive from Hitachi (not lenovo)
- Seagate 200Gb/7200 from Lenovo 41N3758 (note not officially supported in T60p)

work with HDAPS in the Thinkpad T60?

Is it only Hitachi's with lenovo firmware that park with hdaps?

radiodavid · #18 Post by **radiodavid** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:03 pm

SkiBunny wrote:The 7K200 is indeed king of the castle in
Anyone know which 160gb drives Lenovo is using currently?

My T61p came two weeks ago with a 160 meg Hitachi 5400 rpm, and I cloned it to a Hitachi 200 7200.

andrey · #19 Post by **andrey** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:35 am

planetf1 wrote:So does anyone know if the
- 7K200 200Gb/7200 drive from Hitachi (not lenovo)
- Seagate 200Gb/7200 from Lenovo 41N3758 (note not officially supported in T60p)

work with HDAPS in the Thinkpad T60?

Is it only Hitachi's with lenovo firmware that park with hdaps?

you can use any 2.5" SATA hard drive with T60 and your hdaps will be fine since it is software based utility, rather than hardware.

T60p....HD upgrade....biggest/best HD available?

T60p....HD upgrade....biggest/best HD available?

Drive

Who is online